Systems Architect, Disaster Recovery

$125 per hour

Orlando, FL

Contract

Duration: 12 months

• Join the Enterprise Business & Digital Transformation team as a Disaster Recovery (DR) System Architect. You will design, implement, and evolve resilient, high availability architectures for critical applications and services across cloud (AWS, Clienture, GCP).

• Your work will directly enable mission critical operations to meet stringent continuity and recovery time objectives (RTO/RPO) while supporting rapid, automated fail over and restoration.

• Architectural Leadership

• Define end to end DR and high availability (HA) architectures for enterprise wide workloads, incorporating multi region cloud, hybrid, and on prem solutions.

• Develop architectural blueprints, reference designs, and pattern libraries that align with security, compliance, and cost optimization policies.

• Solution Design & Implementation

• Design and implement automated fail over, replication, and fail back mechanisms (e.g., Site Recovery Manager, Kubernetes based HA, database mirroring, storage level replication).

• Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies (e.g., Immutable Infrastructure, Chaos Engineering, Serverless DR) to improve resiliency and reduce mean time to recover (MTTR).

• Governance & Compliance

• Ensure all DR solutions meet corporate policies CRX 301, CRX 302, and relevant regulatory requirements (e.g., NIST 800 34, ISO 22301, FedRAMP).

• Create and maintain DR documentation, run books, and test plans; conduct periodic reviews and updates.

• Testing & Validation

• Lead full scale DR exercise planning, execution, and post mortem analysis for multi site, multi cloud environments.

• Define success criteria, metrics, and KPIs; report findings to senior leadership and stakeholders.

• Stakeholder Collaboration

• Partner with IT Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Application Development, Security, and Governance teams to embed DR/HA considerations early in the SDLC.

• Serve as the technical authority for DR during design reviews (SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR) and program risk assessments.

• Continuous Improvement

• Conduct risk assessments, threat modeling, and capacity planning to anticipate emerging resiliency challenges.

• Drive adoption of Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and automated documentation tools to keep architecture artefacts current.

• DR Plan Modernization & Compliance

• Review existing DR plan architectures across the enterprise, assessing their alignment with current resilience standards, best practices, and organizational Recovery Objectives.

• Collaborate with internal teams (Application Owners, IT Service Managers, Engineering) to update and refine DR plans, ensuring that all applications and IT services meet the latest RTO/RPO targets.

• Develop and implement remediation plans to bring legacy systems and applications up to date with modern resilience standards, ensuring compliance with corporate policies (CRX 301, CRX 302) and regulatory requirements.

• Track progress and report status to senior leadership, providing insights into plan modernization efforts and risk mitigation strategies.

• 5 years of experience designing and implementing DR/HA solutions for enterprise scale workloads in cloud, hybrid, and on prem environments.

• Proven hands on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Clienture, GCP) and related services (e.g., Disaster Recovery, Site Recovery Manager, cross region replication, networking, IAM).

• Strong understanding of networking, storage, virtualization, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and database technologies as they relate to resiliency.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non technical audiences.

• U.S. citizenship required

• Bachelor’s…