Disaster Recovery Technology Strategist

Who You Are:

Senior individual contributor who establishes and owns the enterprise-wide Digital Disaster Recovery and resilience program. Ensures the company can recover critical digital infrastructure and technical business operations following cyber incidents, infrastructure failures, or human error. Execution-focused; partners across the enterprise to make recovery real, tested, and repeatable.

What You Will Do:

• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure-level disaster recovery processes for compute, storage, network, identity, virtualization, and cloud platforms.
• Develop and validate recovery runbooks, sequencing plans, failover procedures, and dependency maps.
• Lead and execute technical DR tests, including component-level restores, partial failovers, and full integrated recovery exercises.
• Identify and document Tier 0/Tier 1 dependencies across identity, DNS, networking, hypervisors, storage arrays, backup platforms, and application stacks.
• Collaborate with platform owners to define, enforce, and maintain realistic RTO/RPO objectives; validate backup recoverability and integrity.
• Coordinate engineers across infrastructure, cloud, network, security, backup, and application teams during tests and real incidents; drive remediation of gaps/technical debt.
• Serve as primary point of contact for Internal Audit and external assessors for DDR scope; own audit evidence and compliance documentation.

What You Will Need to Be Successful:

• Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field (e.g., Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems) or equivalent practical experience.
• Five years in enterprise IT (infrastructure, SRE, operations, security); direct DR or large-scale incident recovery; experience running DR tests or recovery events.
• Understanding of backup and recovery principles; evaluation of RTO/RPO considerations; proficiency in mapping application and infrastructure dependencies; foundational knowledge of identity management, DNS, networking, and storage systems.
• Strong technical documentation and execution; ability to translate technical risk into business impact; confident facilitator of cross-functional exercises.

Nice to Have:

• Preferred experience in cyber recovery or ransomware response; regulatory and audit-driven DR familiarity; certifications such as ITIL or CBCP.

Other Key Skills:

• Strong understanding of cyber recovery concepts, including clean-room restores, immutable backups, air-gapped architectures, and ransomware recovery.
• Strong technical knowledge of compute (VMware, HyperV, cloud compute), storage systems, SAN/NAS, replication technologies, and data protection platforms.
• Strong understanding of identity and access (AD, Azure AD), DNS, networking fundamentals, and how these control planes impact recovery.
• Skilled at coordinating large groups of engineers across multiple domains; proficiency in dependency mapping and failover/failback procedures.

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