Platform Engineer Lead - Disaster Recovery and Resiliency

“I can be myself at work.” You are more than a job title. We want you to feel comfortable doing great work and bringing your best, authentic self to everything you do. We value your talents, traditions, and uniqueness—and we’re committed to fostering a strong sense of belonging in a respectful workplace.

We intentionally seek diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds, investing in a culture designed to celebrate differences. We believe that belonging leads to better outcomes and a stronger community of associates united by our mission. At Capital, we live our core values every day:
Integrity, Client Focus, Diverse Perspectives, Long-Term Thinking, and Community.

• Enjoy generous time‑away and health benefits from day one, with the opportunity for flexible work options.
• Receive 2‑for‑1 matching gifts for your charitable contributions and the opportunity to secure annual grants for the organizations you love.
• Access on‑demand professional development resources that allow you to hone existing skills and learn new ones.

“I can succeed as a Platform Engineer Lead - Disaster Recovery and Resiliency at Capital Group.”

• You will be responsible for the operational side of disaster recovery and resilience. You will develop, implement, and maintain resiliency frameworks and capabilities that application teams can consume via automated product offerings or repeatable patterns.
• You will partner with infrastructure and application teams to design and implement scripts, templates, and workflows that automate their product’s disaster recovery. This includes automation for all relevant resiliency elements including disaster recovery provisioning and scaling, configuration management, monitoring and observability, resyncing and reconciliation, and testing.
• You will work closely with project managers, technical leads, and business stakeholders to identify testing scenarios for potential threats, assess impacts, and design testing solutions to ensure business continuity and minimize risks.
• You will perform detailed evaluations of platform and application resiliency readiness to identify areas of concern.
• You will conduct regular testing, monitoring, and reporting of the resiliency and disaster recovery plans and activities. You will develop the capability to capture the book of record for all disaster recovery related data, identify gaps and continuous improvement opportunities.
• You can design and implement data‑collecting scripts, maintain monitoring tools, and develop front‑end dashboards to monitor the health, performance, and utilization of Capital’s recovery environment to enable prompt response when signs dictate.
• You will support Global Risk and their requirements to report to regulators on our disaster recovery effort.

• 7+ years of hands‑on experience in resiliency, disaster recovery, or business continuity for midsize to large enterprises, with proven technical leadership delivering enterprise‑scale DR and resiliency solutions, preferably in regulated or financial services environments. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field.
• Strong AWS platform engineering expertise, including experience with AWS Resiliency Hub and AWS Fault Injector Service, and the ability to design, implement, validate, and operationalize AWS‑first resiliency and recovery strategies across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments.
• Demonstrated ability to design and evolve enterprise disaster recovery and resiliency frameworks, delivering repeatable, automated patterns and scalable solutions consumable by application teams.
• Deep experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation first delivery, using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet, along with strong knowledge of CI/CD principles, resiliency frameworks, DR testing strategies, chaos engineering, and risk‑based analysis.
• Proven technical leadership and communication skills, with the ability to lead cross‑functional delivery, influence without authority, conduct DR and resiliency testing, support regulatory and risk reporting, and clearly communicate outcomes to both technical and…