AWS Resiliency Architect - Multi-Region HA Leader

Insight Global; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Principal Engineer to own the resiliency strategy and reference architecture for a large-scale AWS environment in Austin. You will establish availability standards, lead business continuity and disaster recovery initiatives, and drive high-availability architecture across infrastructure, containers, data platforms, and engineering teams.

This role requires 12+ years of engineering, hands-on AWS across multi-account/multi-region environments, and strong

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience with senior ownership of resiliency or high-availability architecture.
• Hands-on AWS expertise across multi-account/multi-region environments, networking, IAM, Route 53, load balancing, and Global Accelerator.
• Proven ownership of multi-AZ/multi-region architecture, BC/DR strategy, automated failover, and recovery testing.
• Expertise with AWS Well-Architected Framework and production container platforms (EKS, ECS/Fargate).
• Data resiliency with Aurora/RDS and at least one of DynamoDB, ElastiCache, or S3 replication.
• Advanced Terraform/IaC and infrastructure CI/CD, including state management and drift detection.
• Chaos engineering, observability, SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.
• Strong cross-functional leadership balancing availability, cost, risk and complexity.

Responsibilities

• Own AWS resiliency strategy and availability standards across multi-AZ/multi-region architecture.
• Define patterns for active-active, active-passive, warm-standby, and pilot-light deployments.
• Lead BC/DR planning with RTO/RPO targets, automated failover, runbooks and disaster testing.
• Conduct AWS Well-Architected Reviews and drive remediation.
• Build resiliency across ECS/Fargate, EKS, Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and S3.
• Automate recovery with IaC, self-healing, drift detection, and fault injection.
• Establish SLOs, health checks, dependency mapping and observability standards.
• Lead availability incident response and translate failures into architectural improvements.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, finance and business leaders to balance reliability, cost, and risk.

Skills

AWS resiliency

Multi-account AWS

BC/DR planning

RTO/RPO

EKS & ECS/Fargate

Aurora/RDS & DynamoDB/ElastiCache/S3

Terraform/IaC

Chaos engineering

Observability & SLOs

Incident response

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Principal Engineer to own the resiliency strategy and reference architecture for a large-scale AWS environment in Austin. You will establish availability standards, lead business continuity and disaster recovery initiatives, and drive high-availability architecture across infrastructure, containers, data platforms, and engineering teams.

This role requires 12+ years of engineering, hands-on AWS across multi-account/multi-region environments, and strong