Senior Disaster Recovery Architect — Lead & Resilience Strategy

eir business talent; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 101,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Our client in Dublin is seeking a Disaster Recovery Architecture Lead to design and implement enterprise disaster recovery, resilience, and business continuity solutions across complex technology environments. Hybrid attendance in Dublin, Monday to Friday, daily rate contract.

The candidate will lead DR architecture, develop recovery strategies, produce HLDs/LLDs, define RTOs/RPOs, and drive DR testing with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Infrastructure Architecture, Technical Architecture, or Recovery Architecture.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale disaster recovery design and implementation initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of business continuity, operational resilience, and recovery planning.
• Experience producing HLDs, LLDs, and technical architecture documentation.
• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere environments.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Active Directory recovery and identity resilience solutions.
• Experience designing and implementing database backup, restoration, and recovery solutions across Microsoft SQL Server and/or Oracle environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of enterprise disaster recovery and resilience architectures.
• Develop recovery strategies, business continuity plans, and resilience frameworks.
• Produce and maintain High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), and technical recovery documentation.
• Define recovery requirements, including RTOs and RPOs, for critical systems and services.
• Lead disaster recovery testing, failover exercises, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, security, and application teams to ensure recoverability is embedded within technology solutions.

Skills

Infrastructure Architecture

Recovery Architecture

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

VMware vSphere

Active Directory

SQL Server

Oracle

Job description

Our client in Dublin is seeking a Disaster Recovery Architecture Lead to design and implement enterprise disaster recovery, resilience, and business continuity solutions across complex technology environments. Hybrid attendance in Dublin, Monday to Friday, daily rate contract.

The candidate will lead DR architecture, develop recovery strategies, produce HLDs/LLDs, define RTOs/RPOs, and drive DR testing with cross-functional teams.