Disaster Recovery Engineer - Terraform/Ansible

Description:

Key Responsibilities:

Stakeholder & Project Management:

- Manage communication with technical and business stakeholders, ensuring clear alignment of DR objectives.

- Own project timelines, reporting, and governance activities to drive successful DR implementations.

DR Strategy & Implementation:

- Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies on AWS aligned with business continuity and compliance mandates.

- Define and implement RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) targets.

Infrastructure Automation:

- Oversee infrastructure provisioning and DR automation using tools such as Terraform, GitLab/GitHub CI/CD, and Ansible.

- Ensure high availability, scalability, and fault tolerance of critical applications and data.

Testing & Readiness:

- Conduct failover testing, disaster recovery drills, and validation to ensure operational preparedness.

- Continuously assess and improve DR procedures and incident response capabilities.

Technical Oversight & Mentorship:

- Provide hands-on support for AWS services including:

VPC, EC2, RDS, Lambda, KMS, IAM, Route 53, and other core services.

- Mentor and guide engineering teams on DR architecture and best practices.

Required Skills & Experience:

- 8+ years of overall IT infrastructure or cloud engineering experience.

- 4+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing DR solutions on AWS.

- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools: Terraform, Ansible.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, GitHub Actions, or similar.

- Strong understanding of cloud networking, encryption (KMS), identity & access management, and data replication.

- Solid understanding of DR frameworks, compliance standards, and business continuity planning.

- Excellent communication, documentation, and project coordination skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent.

- Familiarity with multi-region AWS architecture and cross-region replication.

- Experience with regulated environments (e.g., finance, healthcare, etc.).

- Exposure to incident response automation and chaos engineering tools (e.g., AWS Fault Injection Simulator).