SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER, DR LEAD

Job summary

Lead a 16-week disaster recovery program to demonstrate that a 24/7 food distributor can operate from its AWS recovery environment if its primary data center or connectivity becomes unavailable. The role oversees staged testing through production failover and failback, including load and ransomware recovery tests, and delivers repeatable runbooks, team training, and an executive readout. The environment includes VMware replication to AWS with Zerto, Rubrik backups, Windows Server, and SQL Server.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least seven years of infrastructure or DevOps experience, including two or more disaster recovery programs tested through real failover and failback.
• Hands-on AWS experience with EC2, VPC, site-to-site VPN, Route 53, IAM, WorkSpaces, Directory Service, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, and EBS and S3 snapshots.
• Experience with VMware environments replicated to AWS using block-level replication; Zerto is preferred.
• Experience with backup and restore platforms such as Rubrik, including ransomware recovery.
• Experience with Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, certificates, and file shares.
• Experience recovering SQL Server, including log shipping for reporting and a data warehouse.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or CloudFormation and scripting experience with PowerShell and Python.
• Excellent written and spoken English, including the ability to lead go/no-go meetings and present to executives.
• Strong ownership, clear documentation habits, and ability to serve as the single point of contact for disaster recovery.
• Availability for weekend test windows and December holiday work.

Responsibilities

• Inventory servers, applications, data flows, nightly jobs, EDI endpoints, partner IP allow-lists, and hard-coded dependencies.
• Deliver the disaster recovery assessment, gap register, and test plan with acceptance, go/no-go, and rollback criteria by week three.
• Facilitate recovery-target workshops and secure business-approved RTO and RPO targets for each application tier.
• Lead isolated tier failovers, normal-load testing, and ransomware clean-recovery testing from Rubrik backups.
• Lead staged production tests, including pilot users, user waves, failover rehearsal, sustained failover, and failback.
• Run go/no-go meetings and recommend decisions for production test windows.
• Maintain runbooks, the remediation backlog, and weekly status reports.
• Prepare production changes, rollback plans, and user communications for change control.
• Hand over the DR plan, RACI, and test calendar; train the IT team; run a tabletop exercise; and present the executive readout.

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Work schedule

Travel

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Contract length

Relocation