Disaster Recovery Architect

Veriipro; Seattle (WA); Presencial; USD 150.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Veriipro in Seattle seeks an experienced Disaster Recovery Architect to design and lead enterprise-wide DR, BCP, and operational resilience initiatives across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments. You will ensure critical services recover from outages, cyber incidents, and disruptions.

You’ll define strategies, runbooks, and recovery priorities, drive testing and automation with IaC, and collaborate with infrastructure, security, and application teams to raise overall resilience.

Formación

• 10+ years in technology architecture, infrastructure, disaster recovery, or operational resilience.
• 7+ years leading enterprise Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery programs.
• Proven experience designing DR solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises.
• Strong knowledge of BIA, recovery strategies, RTO/RPO management, and application dependency mapping.
• Experience with large-scale DR testing, recovery automation, and resilience modernization.
• Excellent stakeholder management, technical leadership, and communication skills.

Responsabilidades

• Define enterprise Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Operational Resilience strategies, standards, and roadmaps.
• Design DR architectures across Azure, AWS, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
• Define and manage Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), dependencies, and priorities.
• Conduct Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and develop recovery strategies, runbooks, and playbooks.
• Architect high availability, backup, replication, immutable backup, and secure recovery solutions.
• Lead DR automation and orchestration, including failover, failback, recovery validation, IaC, and scripting.
• Integrate cyber recovery strategies with cybersecurity and incident response processes.
• Plan and lead DR testing, tabletop exercises, failover simulations, and business continuity exercises.
• Establish recovery KPIs, resilience metrics, audit controls, and remediation plans.
• Collaborate with business, infrastructure, cloud, security, and application teams to improve enterprise resilience.
• Provide technical leadership, governance, and guidance on industry standards, regulatory requirements, and resilience best practices.

Conocimientos

Technology architecture

Disaster recovery

Operational resilience

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

IaC scripting

Descripción del empleo

We are seeking an experienced Disaster Recovery Architect to design, lead, and enhance enterprise-wide Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery (DR), and Operational Resilience capabilities. The role focuses on developing resilient architectures across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments to ensure critical services can recover from technology outages, cyber incidents, and major disruptions.

Key Responsibilities

• Define enterprise Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Operational Resilience strategies, standards, and roadmaps.
• Design DR architectures across Azure, AWS, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
• Define and manage Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), application dependencies, and recovery priorities.
• Conduct Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and develop recovery strategies, runbooks, and playbooks.
• Architect high availability, backup, replication, immutable backup, and secure recovery solutions.
• Lead DR automation and orchestration, including failover, failback, recovery validation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and scripting.
• Integrate cyber recovery strategies with cybersecurity and incident response processes.
• Plan and lead DR testing, tabletop exercises, failover simulations, and business continuity exercises.
• Establish recovery KPIs, resilience metrics, audit controls, and remediation plans.
• Collaborate with business, infrastructure, cloud, security, and application teams to improve enterprise resilience.
• Provide technical leadership, governance, and guidance on industry standards, regulatory requirements, and resilience best practices.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technology architecture, infrastructure, disaster recovery, or operational resilience.
• 7+ years of experience leading enterprise Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery programs.
• Proven experience designing DR solutions across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
• Strong knowledge of BIA, recovery strategies, RTO/RPO management, and application dependency mapping.
• Experience with large-scale DR testing, recovery automation, and resilience modernization.
• Strong stakeholder management, technical leadership, and communication skills.