IT Resiliency Engineer

Architect and implement Availability, Disaster Recovery and Backup/Recovery services and solutions.

Architect resiliency solutions for cloud, hybrid-cloud and on-premise technologies (automation, recovery scripts, backup solutions, high-availability, failover). Lead effort to develop availability, failover and recovery scripts or automated resiliency capabilities to ensure critical technologies are continuously available, secure, and hardened.

Responsibilities

• Recommend resiliency solutions while conducting assessments, gather data, and update resiliency requirements within tools such as ServiceNow, SQL DB, documentation repositories.
• Research, analyze and document architecture of technology components as well as interdependencies, networking, and firewall requirements.
• Lead the implementation of resiliency solutions using automation, resiliency technologies, distributed computing, cloud operations, hybrid cloud environments, and cloud migration project.
• Manage, review, and approve resiliency plans.
• Work with project teams to identify and document resiliency risks and remediation plans.
• Perform Availability and Disaster Recovery testing.
  
  

• Has at least 4 years of related experience
• Strong knowledge of or certification in AWS, GCP or Azure preferred.
• Recent experience with Python programming preferred, but not required.
• Strong knowledge of data management across disparate locations (replication techniques of filesystems and multiple databases, eventual consistency constraints, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of network failover strategies and relationships to application Web/API designs (DNS, load balancers, etc.)
• Platform engineering, architecture, and distributed systems experience (Unix, Windows, SAN, NAS, Networking, etc.) in enterprise environment
• Demonstrated knowledge of one or more private cloud-based technologies (e. g. vCloud, OpenStack, Cloud Foundry)
• Disaster Recovery, High-Availability, testing, resiliency patterns, and program knowledge preferred but not required.
• Experience with agile methodologies and software development practices.
• Experience implementing data-driven automation (Puppet, Ansible or equivalent).
• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
  
  

• Excellent client interfacing skills, strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to work with various levels of management.
• Worked in a large complex international organization.
• Comfortable working and influencing across many infrastructures’ domains.
• Self-starter, motivated - wants to get in, roll sleeves up and make a difference!
• Wants to be a change agent, make improvements. Thrives on change!