Lead Disaster Recovery Architect – 3rd Site (Hybrid)

Stelfox IT Recruitment; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 221,000 - 332,000; Full time

Job summary

Stelfox IT Recruitment is seeking a Disaster Recovery & Recovery Architecture Lead for a daily rate contract in Dublin. The role focuses on cyber recovery, infrastructure resilience and business continuity, designing a third-site DR capability and delivering HLDs/LLDs.

You will lead workshops, assess current capabilities, define RTO/RPO, map recovery across infra, apps and data, and work with infra, security, and networks to ensure readiness and governance approvals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Infrastructure Architecture, Recovery Architecture or Technical Architecture.
• Enterprise Disaster Recovery design and implementation, data protection technologies including backup, replication, cyber recovery, immutable storage, recovery vaults, and disaster recovery orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Assess current backup, recovery and resilience capabilities.
• Define recovery requirements, including RTO and RPO targets.
• Design a third-site disaster recovery architecture.
• Produce High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs).
• Define recovery runbooks, operational procedures and recovery workflows.
• Lead technology evaluations and review supplier proposals.
• Define recovery solutions across infrastructure, applications, databases and identity platforms.
• Support disaster recovery testing and operational readiness.
• Present designs to architecture and governance boards.
• Work with infrastructure, security, networking and application teams throughout delivery.

Skills

Infrastructure Architecture

Recovery Architecture

Technical Architecture

Workshop Facilitation

Tools

VMware vSphere

Active Directory

SQL Server

Oracle

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Job description

Stelfox IT Recruitment is seeking a Disaster Recovery & Recovery Architecture Lead for a daily rate contract in Dublin. The role focuses on cyber recovery, infrastructure resilience and business continuity, designing a third-site DR capability and delivering HLDs/LLDs.

You will lead workshops, assess current capabilities, define RTO/RPO, map recovery across infra, apps and data, and work with infra, security, and networks to ensure readiness and governance approvals.