Disaster Recovery Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking a Disaster Recovery Engineer to support an established Disaster Recovery Engineering program within a large healthcare enterprise environment. This role is focused on infrastructure-first disaster recovery planning and resiliency initiatives to ensure critical enterprise services remain recoverable and operational. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with enterprise infrastructure, disaster recovery planning, virtualization platforms, and backup technologies, along with the ability to collaborate across infrastructure, networking, and security teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, and develop disaster recovery strategies and recovery plans to support enterprise resiliency initiatives
• Support disaster recovery planning and execution for foundational infrastructure services including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and virtualization platforms
• Participate in enterprise disaster recovery readiness assessments and identify gaps, risks, and single points of failure
• Contribute to remediation planning and collaborate with platform subject matter experts to improve system recoverability
• Develop, maintain, and update disaster recovery documentation including runbooks, recovery procedures, and operational guides
• Participate in disaster recovery testing activities including failover, failback, and tabletop exercises
• Provide hands-on support during disaster recovery events, incident response, and recovery operations
• Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, and security teams to align disaster recovery and resiliency strategies
• Support ongoing improvements to recovery processes, testing methodologies, and resiliency planning initiatives

Required Qualifications

• 35+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, site reliability engineering, or disaster recovery-related roles
• Practical experience with disaster recovery or resiliency planning in large-scale enterprise environments
• Experience with infrastructure technologies including: Active Directory DNS and DHCP services VMware or other virtualization platforms
• Experience with enterprise backup and recovery tools such as: Dell Avamar PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) Rubrik Cohesity
• Strong understanding of disaster recovery concepts including Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Recovery Point Objective (RPO), and business continuity principles
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional technical teams
• Strong communication and documentation skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in healthcare, hospital systems, or other regulated industries
• Exposure to business continuity planning, disaster recovery testing, or Disaster Impacts Model (DIM) initiatives
• Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts including firewall technologies and infrastructure security dependencies
• Experience participating in enterprise-scale disaster recovery exercises and remediation efforts

Certifications

• CBCP (Certified Business Continuity Professional) or CFCP (Certified Functional Continuity Professional) certifications preferred

Education

• Bachelors Degree

Certification

• Certified Business Continuity Professional , Certified Functional Continuity Professional