Verafin – Software Developer Specialist (Disaster Recovery Governance)

The Role

Werelooking for a Software Developer Specialist tojoinour Disaster Recovery Governance Team reporting to the Director - Software this roleyoullhelp shape how we define implement and continuously improve the resilience of our systems and platforms across the organization.

Youllfit right in if you enjoy solving complex technical challenges working across teams and systems and building solutions that hold up when it matters most!

WhatYoullDo

• Design and implement disaster recovery solutions across services and platforms ensuring systems meet defined recovery and resiliency standards.

• Develop and evolve disaster recovery governance frameworks that establish the standards processes and capabilities needed to build a scalable enterprise disaster recovery platform.

• Collaborate with engineering infrastructure and operations teams to understand system dependencies and develop effective failover strategies across environments.

• Build andmaintainautomation and tooling to support recovery testing failover execution and environment readiness.

• Participate in disaster recovery tests and simulations contributing to execution validation and follow-through on identified improvements.

• Document recovery procedures system dependencies and test outcomes to support operational readiness and audit requirements.

WhatYoullBring

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field or equivalent experience.

• 4years experiencedesigning building and supporting distributed systems with a strong understanding of failure modes system dependencies and resiliency patterns (e.g. retries graceful degradation recovery-ready design).

• Solid grounding in disaster recovery principles including failover strategies recovery planning and measurable recoveryobjectives(RTO/RPO) with experience supporting orparticipatingin regular DR testing.

• Hands-on experience in AWS cloud environments with familiarity across infrastructure application layers and data processing systems.

• Experience building or contributing to automation and tooling that supports reliability testing or operational workflows (e.g. readiness checks repeatable recovery tests failover/rollback execution).

• Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear documentation runbooks and shared standards across teams.

• Familiarity with monitoring alerting and operational readiness practices including backup and data protection concepts restore validation and infrastructure-as-code for repeatable environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting disaster recovery tests andresiliencegame day exercises (including controlled fault-injection experiments).

• Familiarity with high-availability architectures across multiple environments or regions ideally in regulated reliability-focused or globally distributed environments.

• Experience developing in Java or Python is considered an asset.

This position willbe located inSt. Johns or Toronto and offers the opportunity for a hybrid work environment at least 3 days a week in-office subject to change providing flexibility and accessibility for qualified candidates.