Disaster Recovery (DR) & Zerto Consultant

Job Summary

Seeking an experienced Disaster Recovery (DR) & Zerto Consultant to support the design validation and execution of disaster recovery operations for a production Hyper V based environment with replication to a VMware based DR tenant. The consultant will play a critical role in failover testing recovery orchestration cross hypervisor recovery and the development of detailed DR runbooks to ensure business continuity.

Key Responsibilities

Disaster Recovery & Failover Execution

• Execute and validate Zerto-based failover and test failover operations for production workloads replicated from Hyper V to VMware environments.
• Bring replicated Active Directory Domain Controllers in isolated DR networks and validate directory services availability.
• Recover VM groups in a defined dependency-based sequence ensuring proper service initialization and stability.
• Manage staggered VM startup to prevent service contention and application failures during recovery.

Cross Hypervisor Recovery Support

• Support and validate Hyper V to VMware recovery scenarios using Zerto.
• Ensure VMware Tools are leveraged for guest customization network injection and system configuration during DR boot up.

Windows Infrastructure & Application Services

• • Provide hands-on support for Windows Server workloads including:
• Active Directory / Domain Controllers
• DNS
• DHCP
• IIS
• Dependent Windows services

• Validate application and service dependencies post failover to ensure functional recovery.

Networking & IP Remediation

• Execute and validate network re IP operations during failover due to non shared IP schemas between production and DR environments.
• Verify inter server communication DNS resolution and service bindings after recovery.
• Develop or assist with manual or orchestrated scripts/automation required for network and service remediation.

Failback & Validation

• Validate DR procedures for both:

• Live production failover events
• Failback to production scenarios

Runbook & Documentation Development

• Develop and refine Disaster Recovery runbooks using a provided template.
• Document:

• Step by step failover procedures
• Dependency mapping
• Recovery timing and sequencing
• Failback processes

• Update documentation iteratively based on validation testing results.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise

• Hands on experience with Zerto replication and failover orchestration.
• Proven experience with Hyper V to VMware disaster recovery scenarios.
• Strong expertise in Windows Server environments including AD DNS DHCP and IIS.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts IP addressing and DNS/service dependency remediation.

Operational Skills

• Ability to plan and execute dependency aware recovery sequencing.
• Experience supporting multi-site DR environments and isolated recovery networks.
• Strong documentation and runbook development capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with DartPoints datacenter or cloud portal environments.
• Exposure to pilot light DR models and phased recovery strategies.
• Experience coordinating with infrastructure networking and application SMEs.

Engagement Scope

• Support DR testing and validation for production workloads hosted in customer datacenters.
• Collaborate closely with internal infrastructure networking and application teams during planning and execution.