CLOUD ARCHITECT - Ansible

The Cloud Disaster Recovery Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions to ensure the organization's technology infrastructure and critical systems can withstand and recover from disruptions. This role involves hands-on work with high availability (HA) architectures, disaster recovery strategies, automation, and failover solutions in on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

The ideal candidate will have expertise in IT resilience, infrastructure engineering, and cloud-based recovery solutions, working closely with IT operations, cybersecurity, and business continuity teams to enhance the organization's overall technology resilience posture.

 Technology Resilience & Disaster Recovery Engineering

       Design, implement, and maintain highly available (HA) and fault-tolerant architecture          across cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)  and on-premises environments.

       Develop and maintain disaster recovery (DR) solutions, ensuring that IT systems meet         defined recovery time      

     objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).

      Implement automation and orchestration for disaster recovery and failover processes         using Infrastructure as Code   

       (IaC) and scripting tools (Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Python).

       Work with IT infrastructure and application teams to integrate resilience best                            practices into system design,          

       deployment, and operations.

       Perform failure mode analysis (FMA) to identify and address system vulnerabilities.

       Disaster Recovery Testing & Validation

       Design and implement fully automated disaster recovery runbooks using Ansible and         Python using one-click   or event- 

       triggered failover systems

       Develop automated recovery verification (post-failover health checks)

       Develop and execute disaster recovery drills and failover testing, identifying gaps and          improvements.

       Automate DR testing, validation, and reporting

       Conduct regular validation of backup and replication strategies, ensuring data integrity and availability.

       Monitor system failover and recovery performance, optimizing configurations to improve response times.

   Incident Response & Crisis Management Support

       Act as a technical lead during disruptions and disaster recovery events, ensuring                     rapid system recovery.

     Work closely with cybersecurity teams to integrate DR solutions with cyber resilience             strategies, ensuring quick  restoration from ransomware or cyberattacks.

     Support post-incident analysis and recommend improvements to resilience strategies.

Monitoring, Compliance & Reporting

       Implement and maintain resilience monitoring tools, ensuring continuous tracking of          system availability and DR readiness.

       Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., ISO                27001, NIST, FFIEC, SOC2).

       Provide technical input for audits and regulatory assessments related to technology            resilience.

      Generate reports on resilience testing results, failover performance, and risk                               mitigation efforts.

Collaboration & Training

       Work closely with IT teams, business continuity professionals, and cloud architects to          ensure resilience strategies align with business needs.

       Provide training and technical guidance to IT staff on disaster recovery best practices          and system failover  configurations.

       Assist in the development of technical documentation and playbooks for disaster                 recovery and resilience processes.

Qualifications & Experience

       Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a               related field.

       5+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, cloud engineering, disaster recovery, or                 resilience engineering.

       Expertise in disaster recovery planning and high-availability (HA) solution design.

       Hands-on experience with cloud resilience strategies (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and                        cloudnative DR tools.

       Hands-on experience automating AWS disaster recovery using:

       Boto3 for orchestration of EC2, RDS, S3, Route 53, IAM, AWS Backup, and EDRS.

       Cross-region replication and failover strategies

       AWS-native DR patterns (pilot light, warm standby, multi-region active/active)

       Automation of AMI lifecycle, backup validation, and restore testing

       Advanced automation engineering experience, including:

       Designing and maintaining enterprise-scale Ansible automation frameworks (roles, collections,           

       dynamic inventories, Ansible Automation Platform/AWX)

       Developing production-grade Python automation using Boto3

       Building event-driven automation workflows for failover and recovery

       Implementing idempotent Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns

       Integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins

       Experience with backup, replication, and data protection solutions (e.g., Veeam,                      Commvault, Zerto, Azure Site Recovery)

       Knowledge of networking, storage, virtualization, and hybrid-cloud architecture.

 Cloud Automation and orchestration at scale is a high priority for this position. Candidates must be bringing extensive demonstrable experience in coding and scripting of cloud resources in AWS and other cloud environments.

Certifications

             AWS Certified Solutions Architect,

             Red Hat Certified Engineer,

             Microsoft Azure Administrator,

            Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), or

            Disaster Recovery Certified Specialist (DRCS)