Remote Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer for Federal/DoD

DecisionPoint Corporation; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking a Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise DR architectures for a large federal and DoD-aligned IT program. The role focuses on resilience, recoverability, and operational continuity across cloud environments, apps, networks, and mission-critical databases.

You will lead DR readiness activities, develop runbooks, and coordinate with engineering, cloud, cybersecurity, and database teams to ensure RMF/IL5 alignment and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Cloud Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 10 years in disaster recovery, systems or cloud engineering.
• Experience coordinating DR testing and failover activities.
• Federal or DoD environment experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and maintain DR solutions across cloud, app, network, and database environments.
• Lead DR readiness activities including validation of secondary sites and replication models.
• Develop DR runbooks, procedures, and technical documentation.
• Coordinate DR failover planning, tabletop exercises, and failback execution.
• Support RTO/RPO validation across systems and interfaces.
• Collaborate with cloud engineers, security, and DBAs on DR readiness.
• Provide DR status reporting and executive briefs.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Documentation

DR testing

Attention to detail

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Cloud tooling

Job description

DecisionPoint Corporation is seeking a Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise DR architectures for a large federal and DoD-aligned IT program. The role focuses on resilience, recoverability, and operational continuity across cloud environments, apps, networks, and mission-critical databases.

You will lead DR readiness activities, develop runbooks, and coordinate with engineering, cloud, cybersecurity, and database teams to ensure RMF/IL5 alignment and