IT Infrastructure Continuity Engineer
IT Infrastructure Continuity Engineer
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$ 103000 - 120000
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Job Description
Nature and Scope
The Infrastructure & Continuity Engineer is responsible for ensuring the stability security and resilience of ARI IT infrastructure at all sites (NY OH and CA). This role focuses on backup solutions disaster recovery (DR) planning business continuity (BC) and maintaining high availability of critical IT systems. The engineer works closely with IT infrastructure/administration team security team and business stakeholders to develop implement and optimize continuity strategies. The successful person will be a cooperative creative person who is strongly motivated to solve business issues. This person will be adept at finding the right technology balance to solve problems quickly and efficiently while creating a maintainable codebase that can evolve as technologies change. This person must be capable of working independently and towards goals vs. just following instructions. This person thrives in a team environment happily sharing your knowledge and insights and able to work under pressure also always searching to improve yourself by learning new technologies methodologies and/or how to be better.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Nothing in this job description restricts managements right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Infrastructure Management
Design and implement resilient IT infrastructure to ensure business continuity.
Design deploy and maintain IT infrastructure including servers storage networking and cloudbased systems.
Manage highavailability (HA) solutions for critical systems including failover and load balancing strategies.
Monitor system performance capacity and availability to ensure optimal operation.
Implement automation and optimization strategies to enhance infrastructure efficiency.
Monitor IT infrastructure performance ensuring uptime and rapid issue resolution.
Backup & Disaster Recovery:
Develop and manage backup solutions to ensure data integrity and availability.
Collaborate with other IT members to lead and develop implement and test disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) plans.
Implement disaster recovery plans (DRPs) and business continuity strategies (BCPs) to minimize downtime.
Perform regular testing and validation of backup and DR processes.
Maintain documentation for DR strategies policies and procedures.
Work with security teams to implement best practices for data protection and compliance.
Incident Response & Risk Mitigation
Act as a key responder for IT resilience incidents ensuring minimal downtime and quick recovery.
Analyze incidents and conduct postmortem reviews to strengthen resilience strategies.
Identify vulnerabilities in IT systems and implement proactive risk mitigation measures.
Maintain uptodate documentation for recovery procedures.
Security & Compliance
Adhere to all I.T. JSOX policies in performing day to day activities.
Periodically train on the I.T. departments policies in compliance with JSOX.
Ensure infrastructure meets cybersecurity and compliance requirements (e.g. GxP NIST).
Implement data protection policies including encryption and secure storage solutions.
Work with cybersecurity teams to address vulnerabilities and mitigate risks.
Keep up with evolving threats and best practices to improve IT resilience.
Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
Partner with IT leadership cybersecurity and business stakeholders to align infrastructure and continuity strategies with business objectives.
Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies to enhance resilience.
Provide training and guidance to IT teams on best practices for business continuity.
Education Requirements and Qualifications
To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required.
Bachelors degree in information systems or computer science preferred or 5 years of related experience required.
Overall 5 years of experience in Information Technology infrastructures.
Proven experience in disaster recovery planning IT systems engineering or business continuity.
Strong knowledge of data backup technologies system replication and recovery tools.
Technical Skills:
Expertise in IT infrastructure networking storage technologies and virtualization.
Experience with disaster recovery planning and business continuity strategies.
Strong knowledge of disaster recovery (DR) backup solutions (experience with Arcserve is a plus. and highavailability systems.
Experience with automation and orchestration tools for disaster recovery and failover.
Understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and regulatory compliance requirements (NIST GxP).
Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices related to data protection and encryption.
Minimum of five years experience working in midsize enterprise infrastructure engineering and support environments.
Soft Skills:
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Strong problemsolving skills and ability to work under pressure during incidents.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills for working with crossfunctional teams.
Detailoriented with strong documentation and process improvement abilities.
Expected Salary Range:
$103000 $120000
The salary range displayed is the minimum and maximum annual salary range of compensation for the role that the employer in good faith believes to be accurate at the time of the posting of an advertisement for the role. Actual compensation for the role will be based on a number of different factors including but not limited to the candidates qualifications education knowledge skills and experience.
American Regent also offers a competitive total rewards package which includes healthcare life insurance profit sharing paid time off matching 401k as well as a wide
range of other benefits.
American Regent celebrates diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability status or protected veteran status.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
