Senior Enterprise Resiliency & Recovery Engineer

Navy Federal Credit Union

Vienna (VA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

47 hours ago

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Job summary

Navy Federal Credit Union is seeking a senior resiliency engineer to design, implement, validate, and improve disaster recovery, operational resilience, and cyber recovery across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will partner with architecture, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, risk, audit, and business resiliency teams to establish resilient patterns and recovery standards.

Responsibilities include leading recovery exercises, documenting test outcomes, and driving continuous

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.
7+ years of experience in disaster recovery, resiliency engineering, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, cyber recovery, site reliability engineering, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise disaster recovery and resiliency solutions in complex technology environments.
Experience establishing and validating RTOs, RPOs, service recovery priorities, and recovery strategies for critical business services.
Strong understanding of operational resilience, disaster recovery, business continuity, high availability, redundancy, and fault‑tolerant architecture principles.
Experience developing recovery plans, recovery runbooks, testing strategies, and recovery validation methodologies.
Experience designing and facilitating recovery exercises, tabletop exercises, functional testing, and enterprise failover/failback events.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain enterprise resiliency architectures supporting critical services, applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
Develop resiliency patterns, recovery designs, and engineering standards aligned with recovery objectives and regulatory expectations.
Define recovery objectives and requirements including RTOs, RPOs, and MTDTs.
Evaluate platform resilience and governance through formal assessments and maturity reviews.
Identify and remediate single points of failure and architectural gaps.
Develop, maintain, and improve recovery strategies, DR plans, cyber recovery procedures, and playbooks.
Engineer and validate recovery solutions using replication, backup, failover, orchestration, automation, and cloud‑native recovery.
Create dependency maps documenting relationships across apps, infra, data, and third‑parties.
Define recovery sequencing and priorities for critical services.
Partner with technology teams to integrate resiliency into design and modernization initiatives.
Design and coordinate disaster recovery exercises, cyber recovery scenarios, and resilience assessments.
Validate end‑to‑end recoverability of apps, infra, and cloud platforms.
Establish recovery testing methodologies, evidence, and readiness assessments.
Document test outcomes, lessons learned, risks, and remediation plans.
Drive continuous improvement from testing and incidents, leveraging automation.