Solutions Architect - Disaster Recovery

Hammerjack Pty Ltd; Philippines; Hybrid; PHP 2,009,000 - 2,902,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work setup

IT equipment provided

HMO from Day 1 for you and dependents

Retirement package with company match

Life and Accident Insurance from Day 1

PTO 24 days + 6 additional days per 5+

Annual merit increase and incentives

Learning workshops and certification

Job summary

RELX seeks a Solutions Architect - Disaster Recovery to strengthen resilience across AWS-based platforms in a hybrid work setup. The role focuses on designing standardized recovery strategies, leading resilience initiatives, and embedding best practices across cloud deployments.

You will collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to ensure recoverability, conduct resilience testing, and support audits while driving continuous improvement in risk management and incident handling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5–8 years in Systems Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Disaster Recovery, or Technical Resilience.
• 2–5 years hands-on AWS experience (EC2, EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC, Multi-AZ).
• Experience in disaster recovery, resilience testing, and recovery planning.

Responsibilities

• Design disaster recovery and resilience testing strategies.
• Lead resilience initiatives across cloud-based applications and platforms.
• Develop and improve resilience frameworks, standards, and best practices.
• Review architectures and provide recovery and resiliency design recommendations.
• Manage resilience assessments, testing activities, and compliance tracking.
• Monitor and report resilience metrics (RTO, RPO).
• Partner with Engineering and Architecture teams to embed resilience in product design.
• Support audits, resilience exceptions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Investigate resilience-related incidents and identify improvement opportunities.

Skills

AWS experience

Cloud infrastructure

Resilience testing

Disaster recovery

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

IaC tools

Job description

Join us and enjoy benefits designed to help you thrive:

• Flexible hybrid work setup
• IT Equipment provided
• HMO coverage starting from Day 1 for you and FOUR FREE dependents
• Attractive retirement package with company matching
• Life and Accident Insurance starting Day 1
• 24 Annual PTOs, additional 6 once you reach your 5th year with us
• Competitive benefits with annual merit increase and incentives
• Continuous improvement for our employees (workshops, certification programs, learning sessions, etc.)

Work Arrangement:

• Set-Up: Hybrid (2/month onsite reporting)
• Schedule: Midshift 3:00 PM – 11:00 PM, Monday to Friday
• Location: UP AyalaLand Technohub, Commonwealth, Quezon City

Join RELX as a Solutions Architect - Disaster Recovery and play a critical role in ensuring our global products and platforms remain resilient, recoverable, and compliant. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, architecture, resilience testing, disaster recovery, and risk management, while partnering with architects, engineers, and technology leaders across the organization.

What You'll Do

As our Solutions Architect - Disaster Recovery, you'll help strengthen the resilience posture of our AWS-based platforms by:

• Designing and standardizing disaster recovery and resilience testing strategies.
• Leading resilience initiatives across cloud-based applications and platforms.
• Developing and improving resilience frameworks, standards, and best practices.
• Reviewing architectures and providing recommendations on recovery and resiliency design.
• Managing resilience assessments, testing activities, and compliance tracking.
• Monitoring and reporting key resilience metrics such as RTO and RPO.
• Partnering with Engineering and Architecture teams to embed resilience into product design.
• Supporting audits, resilience exceptions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Investigating resilience-related incidents and identifying opportunities for improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5–8 years of experience in Systems Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Disaster Recovery, or Technical Resilience.
• 2–5 years of hands‑on AWS experience (EC2, EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC, Multi-AZ).
• Experience in disaster recovery, resilience testing, and recovery planning.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder communication skills.
• AWS Certification (e.g., Solutions Architect).
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and incident management tools.
• Knowledge of compliance, risk, or resilience frameworks.