Infrastructure Engineer

Prairie Consulting Services; Tempe (AZ); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Prairie Consulting Services in Tempe, AZ is seeking a Technical Disaster Recovery Lead to provide hands-on leadership and coordinate enterprise-wide DR initiatives. This role requires a strong infrastructure background and direct experience in planning, testing, executing, and improving DR capabilities.

The candidate will lead DR planning across US, APAC, and EMEA, collaborate with infrastructure and application teams, and ensure compliance through runbooks and testing procedures.

Qualifications

• Strong infrastructure engineering or operations background.
• Hands-on, enterprise-scale Disaster Recovery experience.
• Experience with DR planning, testing, failover, recovery, and remediation.
• Ability to explain personal technical contributions to DR initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate enterprise DR planning, testing, failover, and recovery activities.
• Coordinate across infrastructure teams, application teams, and global DR stakeholders.
• Support DR testing, PiTR exercises, BCP/compliance activities, remediation, and automation.
• Coordinate resources across the US, APAC, and EMEA using a follow-the-sun support model.
• Work across servers, databases, middleware, networking, storage, virtualization, and cloud environments.
• Assess application and infrastructure dependencies and recovery sequencing.
• Develop and maintain DR plans, runbooks, testing procedures, and remediation plans.
• Provide technical leadership during global DR events, including occasional weekend/after-hours testing.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Disaster recovery

Leadership

Cross-functional coordination

Job description

Located in Tempe, AZ – looking for local candidates only

Hybrid 3 days on-site

Looking for W-2 candidates ONLY

We are looking for a Technical Disaster Recovery Lead to provide hands-on leadership and coordination for enterprise-wide Disaster Recovery initiatives. This is not a pure Project Manager role — the ideal candidate will have a strong infrastructure background and direct experience planning, testing, executing, and improving DR capabilities.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and coordinate enterprise DR planning, testing, failover, and recovery activities
• Coordinate across infrastructure teams, application teams, and global DR stakeholders
• Support DR testing, PiTR exercises, BCP/compliance activities, remediation, and automation
• Coordinate resources across the US, APAC, and EMEA using a follow-the-sun support model
• Work across servers, databases, middleware, networking, storage, virtualization, and cloud environments
• Assess application and infrastructure dependencies and recovery sequencing
• Develop and maintain DR plans, runbooks, testing procedures, and remediation plans
• Provide technical leadership during global DR events, including occasional weekend/after-hours testing
• Clearly communicate technical risks, recovery strategies, dependencies, and status to both technical and management teams

What We’re Looking For

• Strong infrastructure engineering or operations background
• Hands-on, enterprise-scale Disaster Recovery experience
• Experience with DR planning, testing, failover, recovery, and remediation
• Broad knowledge across multiple infrastructure technology towers
• Strong understanding of application/infrastructure dependencies and recovery sequencing
• Experience with DR plans, runbooks, PiTR/BCP exercises, and compliance
• Ability to explain your personal technical contributions to DR initiatives
• Strong communication, leadership, and cross-functional coordination skills
• Ability to combine technical expertise with management and leadership

Nice to Have

• Financial services or other regulated industry experience

If you are an Infrastructure Engineer, Technical DR Lead, or DR Engineer who enjoys being hands-on while also leading enterprise-wide recovery initiatives, we’d like to hear from you.