Senior Windows Availability & Disaster Recovery Lead

Unisys Corporation; Norwich (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Unisys seeks a Principal Business Availability & Disaster Recovery Engineer to lead the design, validation, and improvement of high-availability and DR solutions across the Windows infrastructure.

The role blends leadership of the Business Availability and Disaster Recovery practices with hands-on assessment, troubleshooting, and remediation of availability and recovery issues, spanning on-premises and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree and 8+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Expert-level Windows systems administration expertise applied to Business Availability and/or Disaster Recovery design for enterprise infrastructure.
• Proven ability to lead Business Availability and Disaster Recovery design and strategy, and advise across the organization on complex, business-critical availability and recovery issues.
• Experience with Microsoft Server, including clustering.
• Experience with VMware.
• Familiarity with disaster recovery and high availability in cloud environments: Oracle OCI and Microsoft Azure.
• U.S. Citizenship and U.S. residency required.

Responsibilities

• Leads Business Availability and Disaster Recovery strategy for Windows systems across the account.
• Ensures availability and DR strategy align with corporate business requirements and objectives.
• Assesses and documents current-state Windows solution architectures.
• Designs and recommends high-availability Windows solutions, including Microsoft Server clustering and VMware-based infrastructure.
• Develops migration strategies, implementation roadmaps, and associated bills of materials for Windows environments.
• Ensures proposed Windows solutions integrate effectively with the Disaster Recovery practice.
• Coordinates and executes planned DR testing activities.
• Monitors and evaluates DR infrastructure capacity for Windows systems across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Provides systems administration support (installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting) for Windows environments across multiple locations.
• Advises on programming tools, database systems, and networks relevant to Windows environments.
• Remediates daily incident tickets, ensures system compliance, and supports testing, staging, and policy/procedure improvements affecting availability and reliability.
• Coordinates with clients and stakeholders on recommendations to address availability and reliability issues.

Skills

Windows systems administration

VMware

Microsoft Server clustering

DR design

High availability

Education

BA/BS degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Server clustering

VMware-based infrastructure

Job description

Unisys seeks a Principal Business Availability & Disaster Recovery Engineer to lead the design, validation, and improvement of high-availability and DR solutions across the Windows infrastructure.

The role blends leadership of the Business Availability and Disaster Recovery practices with hands-on assessment, troubleshooting, and remediation of availability and recovery issues, spanning on-premises and cloud environments.