Senior Resiliency & Recovery Engineer for Enterprise Tech

Jobtailor

Vienna (VA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced technology resiliency leader to design, implement, and continuously improve disaster recovery and operational resilience for critical services across hybrid environments. The role requires deep expertise in recovery planning, testing strategies, and validation, with strong communication to both technical and executive audiences.

You will drive automation, dependency mapping, and performance metrics while coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure rapid

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.
7+ years in disaster recovery, resiliency engineering, infrastructure/cloud engineering, or related field.
Experience designing and implementing enterprise DR and resiliency solutions in complex tech environments.
Experience establishing and validating RTOs, RPOs, priorities, and recovery strategies for critical services.
Strong understanding of operational resilience, DR, business continuity, high availability, redundancy, and fault‑tolerant architecture.
Experience developing recovery plans, runbooks, testing strategies, and validation methodologies.
Experience designing and facilitating recovery exercises, tabletop drills, functional testing, and enterprise failover/failback events.
Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure platforms including compute, storage, networking, databases, middleware, virtualization, and cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

Support ETRR's strategy by designing, implementing, validating, and improving resiliency of critical services.
Serve as SME in disaster recovery, resiliency, cyber recovery, high availability, and service restoration across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Partner with architecture, cloud, cybersecurity, risk, audit, and business resiliency teams to set resilient patterns and recovery standards.
Contribute to Enterprise Resiliency Architecture and Recovery Engineering with guidance on readiness, automation, dependency mapping, testing, metrics, and executive reporting.