Senior Disaster Recovery Architect - 3rd-Site Resilience

Realtime Recruitment Limited; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Realtime Recruitment Limited is seeking a Senior Disaster Recovery Architect to lead the design and delivery of a new third-site disaster recovery capability in Ireland. You will be the technical lead for cyber recovery, infrastructure resilience and business continuity from assessment to implementation-ready designs.

This hands-on architecture role offers ownership and visibility at governance level, collaborating with infrastructure, security, networking and application teams throughout

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Infrastructure, Recovery or Technical Architecture.
• Hands-on design and delivery of enterprise disaster recovery, covering: backup, replication and immutable storage.
• Cyber recovery vaults, air-gapped recovery and DR orchestration.
• Recovery strategy, business continuity and resilience planning.
• A track record of producing HLDs and LLDs.

Responsibilities

• Assess current backup, recovery and resilience capabilities and identify gaps.
• Define recovery requirements, including RTO and RPO targets.
• Design the third-site DR architecture and produce HLDs/LLDs.
• Define recovery solutions across infrastructure, apps, databases and identity platforms.
• Build recovery runbooks, operational procedures and recovery workflows.
• Lead technology evaluations and assess supplier proposals.
• Present designs to architecture and governance boards.
• Support DR testing and operational readiness.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

DR design

Backup & recovery

Cyber recovery

Stakeholder engagement

Governance

DR runbooks

Technical leadership

Tools

VMware vSphere

Microsoft Active Directory

SQL Server

Oracle

Windows

Linux

Job description

Realtime Recruitment Limited is seeking a Senior Disaster Recovery Architect to lead the design and delivery of a new third-site disaster recovery capability in Ireland. You will be the technical lead for cyber recovery, infrastructure resilience and business continuity from assessment to implementation-ready designs.

This hands-on architecture role offers ownership and visibility at governance level, collaborating with infrastructure, security, networking and application teams throughout