Hybrid DR Architect: SAP, Cloud & Resilience

Appex Innovation; Stamford (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Appex Innovation in Stamford, CT is seeking a Disaster Recovery Architect to design, implement, and mature the enterprise DR program across a hybrid portfolio including SAP on-premises data centers and cloud environments.

This role collaborates with Infrastructure leaders to architect backup, replication, and recovery strategies and translates that architecture into actionable runbooks and executive-level reporting.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with enterprise backup platforms (Cohesity, Veeam, Azure Backup, or equivalent).
• Strong knowledge of database recovery strategies across at least one major RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server).
• Experience supporting DR for SAP or other large-scale ERP environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain DR architecture and recovery strategies across heterogeneous platforms (on-prem databases, SAP, cloud infrastructure, and business-critical applications).
• Own and evolve enterprise DR runbooks, including procedure tables, escalation paths, and RTO/RPO.
• Assess and document backup landscape coverage across tools; identify gaps and drive remediation plans.
• Build and maintain detailed inventories of dependencies to support recovery planning and audit readiness.
• Partner with database, infrastructure, and application teams to validate recovery procedures through regular DR testing.
• Track legacy platform risk and drive modernization or compensating controls.
• Define and enforce DR standards, policies, and governance across the portfolio.
• Serve as a technical escalation point during actual DR events or failover exercises.

Skills

Backup platforms expertise

Database recovery strategies

SAP/ERP DR experience

Hybrid cloud/onsite infra

Executive communication

Tools

Cohesity

Veeam

Azure Backup

Job description

Appex Innovation in Stamford, CT is seeking a Disaster Recovery Architect to design, implement, and mature the enterprise DR program across a hybrid portfolio including SAP on-premises data centers and cloud environments.

This role collaborates with Infrastructure leaders to architect backup, replication, and recovery strategies and translates that architecture into actionable runbooks and executive-level reporting.