Disaster Recovery Engineer

The Disaster Recovery (DR) Engineer is responsible for designing implementing and maintaining end to end Disaster Recovery strategies and solutions across enterprise environments. This role ensures organizational resilience by enabling rapid recovery of critical systems applications and infrastructure in the event of outages cyber incidents or large scale disruptions. The architect collaborates with technology teams business units and leadership to align DR capabilities with business continuity requirements.

Key Responsibilities

1. DR Strategy & Architecture

Design enterprise level Disaster Recovery architectures for critical applications platforms and infrastructure.

Define RTO/RPO standards and recovery architectures that align with business continuity objectives.

Develop DR reference architecture frameworks patterns and reusable templates.

2. DR Planning & Implementation

Lead end to end DR solution design across on premise cloud and hybrid environments.

Create DR runbooks playbooks workflows and recovery procedures.

Define DR automation strategies and integrate with orchestration tools.

3. DR Assessment & Gap Identification

Conduct DR maturity assessments and identify gaps in existing recovery capabilities.

Review infrastructure resilience failover mechanisms and data replication setups.

Recommend improvements to improve system availability and recoverability.

4. DR Testing & Validation

Plan coordinate and execute DR drills (tabletop partial and full failover tests).

Validate recovery success against defined SLAs and compliance requirements.

Document test results and track remediation actions.

5. Technology Expertise

Expertise in backup solutions (e.g. NetBackup Commvault Veeam).

Experience with replication technologies (e.g. SRM Zerto Azure Site Recovery AWS DRS).

Strong understanding of storage virtualization networking and cloud DR architectures.

6. Compliance & Governance

Ensure adherence to regulatory standards (BFSI guidelines ISO 22301 RBI mandates).

Maintain DR policies standards and audit documentation.

Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure DR alignment with cyber resilience requirements.

7. Stakeholder & Project Management

Work with business PMO Infra Application teams and Service Delivery stakeholders.

Provide architecture guidance technical leadership and DR SME expertise.

Support customer presentations solutioning and pre sales DR architecture propos als.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

Strong knowledge of Disaster Recovery architecture & Business Continuity planning.

DR solutions: VMware SRM Zerto Azure Site Recovery AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery.

Backup systems: Commvault Veritas NetBackup Veeam.

Virtualization & Infrastructure: VMware Hyper V storage arrays clustering.

Cloud DR: Azure AWS GCP failover strategies.

Networking: Load balancers DNS failover firewalls routing during DR.

Professional Skills

Excellent documentation communication and stakeholder management skills.

Ability to lead DR drills workshops and executive level reviews.

Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Experience

8-15 years of IT Infrastructure experience with at least 3-5 years dedicated to DR/BCP architecture.

Experience in BFSI or regulated environments preferred.

Certifications (Preferred)

o AWS/Azure Architect

o VMware VCP DCV

o ITIL Foundation