Director, IT Resilience Engineering- Hybrid

Calance, Inc.; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Calance, Inc. in Irvine, CA, seeks a Director, IT Resilience Engineering to own recovery architecture across global systems and to lead a distributed engineering team.

You will implement immutable backups, run recovery tests, and scale a cyber recovery program from Asia Pacific to other regions, setting reference architectures and governance.

This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on engineering, requiring senior expertise and the ability to drive cross‑functional decisions.

Qualifications

• Twelve+ years in infrastructure engineering and leading senior technical staff.
• Disaster recovery or business continuity at enterprise scale with evidenced tests.
• Hands-on credibility in compute/virtualisation, networking, storage or cloud.
• Experience cyber recovery: immutable backup and isolated recovery environments.
• Ability to influence across peer organisations without formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Own recovery architecture and reference topologies.
• Run recovery validation regime with evidenced results.
• Lead manufacturing continuity including dual data centres.
• Build cyber recovery capability and orchestrated restore.
• Lead and hire five Senior Staff Engineers.
• Chair cross-team resilience architecture forum.
• Govern supplier performance against resilience requirements.
• Represent engineering position to IT leadership and audit audiences.

Skills

Disaster recovery

Business continuity

Executive communication

Staff leadership

Job description

Job Title Director, IT Resilience Engineering- Hybrid - ID: 45107

Duration 6 Months to Hire

Start Date ASAP

Location Irvine, CA

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Own recovery architecture. Design active, active topologies, failover paths and blast radius containment for tier one systems, and set the reference architecture the infrastructure towers build against.
• Prove recovery, do not document it. Establish and run the recovery validation regime. A system counts as recoverable only when a test has succeeded inside the committed window and the result is evidenced.
• Lead manufacturing continuity. Act as engineering owner for the manufacturing continuity programme: dual data centre topology, network segmentation, database resilience and cyber recovery for factory critical systems, starting in Asia Pacific and extending globally.
• Build the cyber recovery capability. Own immutable backup, vaulting and orchestrated recovery, engineered to a recovery objective rather than procured to a vendor feature list.
• Build and hold the hiring bar. Recruit, develop and retain five Senior Staff Engineers at a standard materially above the organisation average, and deploy them against risk rather than against a fixed tower.
• Delegate rather than gate. Each engineer holds the deciding technical view in their own domain and engages peer teams, security and suppliers directly. Routing every decision through you would be a failure of the operating model.
• Lead across distance. One of your engineers is based in Malaysia. Keeping that engineer as influential as those in California is an explicit leadership obligation, not a scheduling problem.
• Arbitrate across the organisation. Chair the cross team resilience architecture forum. Where designs conflict on a resilience requirement, you hold the deciding technical view.
• Govern supplier technical performance. Set and hold the resilience requirements a large managed service provider is measured against, including through a transition.
• Represent the engineering position. Speak for resilience engineering to IT leadership and to audit level audiences.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Typically twelve or more years in infrastructure engineering, including at least four leading senior technical staff.
• Demonstrated ownership of a disaster recovery or business continuity programme at enterprise scale, including executed recovery tests with evidenced outcomes against defined objectives. Authoring a plan does not meet this bar.
• Deep hands on credibility in at least three of: compute and virtualisation, enterprise networking, storage and data protection, public cloud architecture, production operations.
• Direct experience engineering cyber recovery: immutable backup, isolated recovery environments, and orchestrated restore of critical systems following a destructive event.
• A track record of influencing and arbitrating across peer engineering organisations without authority over them.
• Experience presenting technical risk positions to executive and audit level audiences without softening them.
• Experience setting the technical requirements that govern a large managed service provider, ideally through a transition.
• Experience leading a geographically distributed technical team, including reports in Asia Pacific.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Semiconductor, or another continuous operations manufacturing environment where downtime carries direct production cost.
• A demonstrated record of developing senior individual contributors into leadership roles.
• Experience standing up a resilience or reliability function from scratch rather than inheriting one.

LEVEL EXPECTATIONS

• Leads senior technical staff and is accountable for staffing, budget and functional outcomes.
• Drives strategy and execution across a significant functional area.
• Makes architecture and resourcing decisions that affect multiple organisations.
• This role is not filled by a competent infrastructure manager. We are looking for a practicing engineer whom other strong engineers choose to follow, equally credible in a failure postmortem and in front of the IT Leadership Team.

Pay Range - 90-125/hr

Calance is a global IT Services firm specializing in end-to-end solutions for Development, Managed Service, Security, SAP, Project Control Integration and IT Staffing.Operating in the United States and India, Calance helps clients bring their ideas and strategies to life through talent, technology and tenacity.