Senior Staff Engineer, IT Resilience: InfraOps Resilience

Sunrise Group; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Sunrise Group is seeking an experienced resilience engineering leader to drive recovery automation and incident-driven engineering changes across enterprise infrastructure. The role focuses on building a robust recovery command centre, standardizing supplier practices, and mentoring global engineering teams.

Candidates should have extensive on-call ownership of tier-one systems, strong automation capabilities, and proven execution of large-scale disaster recovery programs, with a track record of

Qualifications

• Typically ten or more years in production operations, site reliability engineering or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience building and running enterprise-scale recovery or disaster recovery programmes with measurable outcomes.
• Strong automation and observability engineering; runbooks as code rather than documents.
• Major incident command experience on incidents with material business impact.
• Experience shaping or governing a managed service provider operational practice.

Responsibilities

• Engineer recovery automation; Runbooks as code, tested, versioned, and executable.
• Turn incidents into engineering change; drive systemic changes across infrastructure teams.
• Build command centre capability for observability, decision instrumentation, escalation, and communication.
• Set the supplier practice; define recovery execution standards and incident engineering discipline.
• Own the infrastructure operations tier-one dependency map.
• Run the tests; design and execute recovery tests and marshal evidence.
• Direct without managing; provide technical direction and mentoring to infrastructure engineers across the global estate.

Skills

Automation

Runbooks as code

Incident response

Disaster recovery

Mentoring

Cross-domain knowledge

SRE/Infra ownership

Job description

Location: Milpitas or Irvine, California

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Engineer recovery automation. Runbooks as code: tested, versioned, and executable by an engineer who did not write them. Automated where possible, engineered where not.
• Turn incidents into engineering change. Convert deep postmortems into systemic engineering change across the infrastructure teams and drive it to closure. Not action items on a list.
• Build command centre capability. The technical capability behind major incident and recovery command: observability of the recovery itself, decision instrumentation, escalation and communication mechanics.
• Set the supplier practice. Define the recovery execution standard, runbook quality bar and incident engineering discipline that a large managed service provider is measured against, and validate delivered performance directly.
• Own the dependency map. Maintain the infrastructure operations tier one dependency chain that the other resilience domains build against.
• Run the tests. Design and run the technical execution of recovery tests, and produce the resulting evidence.
• Direct without managing. Provide technical direction and mentoring to infrastructure operations engineers across the global estate.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for the right capability rather than a specific number of years. The experience indication below is typical, not a filter; an engineer who has genuinely done this work in less time will be considered.

• Typically ten or more years in production operations, site reliability engineering or infrastructure engineering, including genuine on call ownership of tier one systems.
• You have built and run a technical recovery or disaster recovery test programme at enterprise scale, with evidenced outcomes.
• Strong automation and observability engineering. Runbooks as code, not documents.
• Major incident command experience on incidents with material business impact.
• You have shaped or governed a managed service provider operational practice, ideally through a transition or onboarding.
• Credible across at least three of compute, network, storage, cloud and data.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Manufacturing, or another twenty four by seven continuous operations environment.
• Game day or chaos engineering programme ownership.
• Experience inheriting or handing over an operational practice at a supplier transition.