Platform Engineer Lead - Disaster Recovery and Resiliency

About the role

You will be responsible for the operational side of disaster recovery and resilience. You will develop, implement, and maintain resiliency framework and capabilities that applications teams can consume via automated product offerings or repeatable patterns to attest to validity and viability of their disaster recovery plans in line with business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with infrastructure and application teams to design and implement scripts, templates, and workflows that automate their product’s disaster recovery.
• Work and partner closely with the project managers, technical leads, and business stakeholders to identify testing scenarios for potential threats, assess impacts, and design testing solutions to ensure business continuity and minimize risks.
• Perform detailed evaluations of platform and application resiliency readiness to identify areas of concern.
• Conduct regular testing, monitoring, and reporting of the resiliency and disaster recovery plans and activities.
• Develop the capability to capture the book of record for all disaster recovery related data.
• Identify gaps and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Design and implement data collecting scripts, implement and maintain monitoring tools, and develop front-end dashboards to monitor the health, performance, and utilization of Capital’s recovery environment to enable prompt response when signs dictate.
• Support Global Risk and their requirements to report to regulators on our disaster recovery effort.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in resiliency, disaster recovery, or business continuity for midsize to large enterprises, with proven technical leadership delivering enterprise-scale DR and resiliency solutions, preferably in regulated or financial services environments.
• Strong AWS platform engineering expertise, including hands-on experience with AWS Resiliency Hub and AWS Fault Injector Service, and the ability to design, implement, validate, and operationalize AWS first resiliency and recovery strategies across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.
• Demonstrated ability to design and evolve enterprise disaster recovery and resiliency frameworks, delivering repeatable, automated patterns and scalable solutions consumable by application teams.
• Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation-first delivery, using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet, along with strong knowledge of CI/CD principles, resiliency frameworks, DR testing strategies, chaos engineering, and risk-based analysis.
• Proven technical leadership and communication skills, with the ability to lead cross-functional delivery, influence without authority, conduct DR and resiliency testing, support regulatory and risk reporting, and clearly communicate outcomes to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Coding experience (e.g., Python, JavaScript) and relevant certifications (CBCP, CRISC, CISA) are a plus.

Skills

• Technical Leadership
• Disaster Recovery and Resiliency
• Cloud Engineering
• Automation and Infrastructure as Code
• Testing and Monitoring
• Regulatory Compliance

Benefits

• Generous time-away and health benefits from day one.
• Opportunity for flexible work options.
• On-demand professional development resources.
• Matching gifts for charitable contributions.
• Annual grants for the organizations you love.

Pay

$153,842 - $246,147

Schedule

Full-time