Tech S And T - Senior Consultant - Resilience - ISR - Senior - GDSF02

EY; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior Consultant - Infrastructure Resilience in India to support resilience initiatives across compute, storage, backup, virtualization, cloud and hybrid environments. You will run DR tests, validation activities and recovery planning, while collaborating with infrastructure, cloud, operations, audit and business teams.

The role emphasizes practical recovery improvements, strong documentation, and client-facing delivery with a focus on measurable resilience outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT or related field.
• Relevant infra resilience and DR certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct resilience assessments across compute, storage, backup and cloud environments.
• Evaluate recovery strategies, mappings and readiness; perform DR tests and runbooks.
• Develop recovery plans and support ransomware preparedness.
• Prepare client deliverables and recovery roadmaps; collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Identify gaps and provide remediation recommendations.

Skills

Infrastructure resilience

Disaster recovery

Stakeholder management

Consulting skills

Documentation & reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/IT

Tools

Azure

AWS

VMware VCP

Job description

Job Description:

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Job Title: Senior Consultant - Infrastructure Resilience

Experience Range: 5-8 Years

Role Summary

Support infrastructure resilience, disaster recovery, and recovery readiness initiatives across compute, storage, backup, virtualization, cloud, and hybrid environments. The role focuses on resilience assessments, DR testing, recovery validation, ransomware recovery preparedness, and improvement planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct resilience assessments across compute, storage, backup, virtualization, cloud, identity, and network services.
• Evaluate recovery strategies, dependency mappings, recovery sequencing, and recovery readiness.
• Execute DR tests, failover/failback exercises, recovery simulations, and validation activities.
• Assess backup and storage environments for recovery readiness, replication, immutability, retention, and RPO/RTO alignment.
• Develop and maintain DR plans, recovery runbooks, and recovery procedures.
• Support ransomware recovery preparedness, trusted restore validation, and recovery exercises.
• Identify resilience gaps, recovery risks, and SPOFs, and provide remediation recommendations.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, operations, application, audit, and business teams.
• Prepare assessment reports, recovery roadmaps, and client deliverables.
• Support workshops, solutioning, and consulting engagements.

Required Skills

• 5-8 years of experience in infrastructure resilience, disaster recovery, or related infrastructure domains.
• Strong understanding of compute, virtualization, storage, backup, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Experience with backup technologies, replication, snapshots, immutable backups, retention, and restore processes.
• Knowledge of networking concepts including LAN, WAN, redundancy, failover, and load balancing.
• Experience with DR planning, recovery testing, failover/failback, dependency mapping, and recovery validation.
• Understanding of ransomware recovery, trusted restores, and recovery preparedness.
• Strong documentation, analytical, stakeholder management, and consulting skills.
• Understanding of hosting models, cloud platforms, and datacenter strategies.

Good to Have

• Exposure to AI/GenAI, AIOps, observability, and telemetry-driven resilience solutions.
• Knowledge of Python, PowerShell, or automation scripting.
• Basic understanding of database backup, recovery, and resilience concepts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications such as Azure, AWS, VMware VCP, or similar infrastructure certifications preferred.
• Experience supporting infrastructure transformation, resilience, or DR programs.

Preferred Attributes

• Ability to independently manage assessment and testing activities.
• Comfortable working across infrastructure, cloud, operations, risk, audit, and business teams.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and client-facing skills.
• Focus on practical recovery improvements and measurable resilience outcomes.

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