Disaster Recovery Analyst ( US Citizenship required)

12-month contract with potential extension; US citizenship required.

About the role

Join the Enterprise Business & Digital Transformation team as a Disaster Recovery (DR) System Architect. You will design, implement, and evolve resilient, high-availability architectures for critical applications and services across cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), hybrid, and on-premises environments. Your work will directly enable mission-critical operations to meet stringent continuity and recovery time objectives (RTO/RPO) while supporting rapid, automated failover and restoration.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end DR and high-availability (HA) architectures for enterprise-wide workloads, incorporating multi-region cloud, hybrid, and on-prem solutions.
• Develop architectural blueprints, reference designs, and pattern libraries that align with security, compliance, and cost-optimization policies.
• Design and implement automated failover, replication, and failback mechanisms (e.g., Site Recovery Manager, Kubernetes-based HA, database mirroring, storage-level replication).
• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies (e.g., Immutable Infrastructure, Chaos Engineering, Serverless DR) to improve resiliency and reduce mean time to recover (MTTR).
• Ensure all DR solutions meet corporate policies CRX 301, CRX 302, and relevant regulatory requirements (e.g., NIST-800-34, ISO-22301, FedRAMP).
• Create and maintain DR documentation, runbooks, and test plans; conduct periodic reviews and updates.
• Lead full-scale DR exercise planning, execution, and post-mortem analysis for multi-site, multi-cloud environments.
• Define success criteria, metrics, and KPIs; report findings to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Partner with IT Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Application Development, Security, and Governance teams to embed DR/HA considerations early in the SDLC.
• Serve as the technical authority for DR during design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR) and program risk assessments.
• Conduct risk assessments, threat modeling, and capacity planning to anticipate emerging resiliency challenges.
• Drive adoption of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and automated documentation tools to keep architecture artifacts current.
• Review existing DR plan architectures across the enterprise, assessing alignment with current resilience standards, best practices, and organizational Recovery Objectives.
• Collaborate with internal teams (Application Owners, IT Service Managers, Engineering) to update and refine DR plans, ensuring all applications and IT services meet the latest RTO/RPO targets.
• Develop and implement remediation plans to bring legacy systems and applications up to date with modern resilience standards, ensuring compliance with corporate policies (CRX 301, CRX 302) and regulatory requirements.
• Track progress and report status to senior leadership, providing insights into plan modernization efforts and risk mitigation strategies.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing DR/HA solutions for enterprise-scale workloads in cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Proven hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and related services (e.g., Disaster Recovery, Site Recovery Manager, cross-region replication, networking, IAM).
• Strong understanding of networking, storage, virtualization, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and database technologies as they relate to resiliency.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Skills

• Familiarity with automated disaster recovery (DR) solutions, including:
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Disaster Recovery Service (DRS): configuring and managing replication, failover, and failback processes for AWS workloads.
  • Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (ASR): setting up and managing site recovery between on-premises environments, Azure, and other clouds.
  • Zerto: continuous data protection (CDP) and near-zero RPO replication across VMware, Hyper-V, and cloud environments.
  • Veeam Backup & Replication: agentless backup, replication, and automated failover testing for virtual, physical, and cloud workloads.
  • IBM Resiliency Services (formerly IBM Disaster Recovery as a Service): managed DR services for hybrid cloud environments, including integration with IBM Cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Experience with DR automation, including scripting and integration with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab) to automate DR workflows.
• DR exercise planning and execution, including defining success criteria, metrics, and KPIs for recovery processes.
• Strong analytical skills: ability to perform risk assessments, impact analysis, and cost-benefit modeling for DR solutions.
• Hybrid/multi-cloud deployments, with ability to manage DR across multiple cloud providers and on-premises environments.
• Advanced certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, VMware VCAP DCV).

Pay

$50.00 – $126.90 per hour on W2.

Schedule

4/10 shift.