The internal job title is 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.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 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.
SOFT SKILLS REQUIRED
- 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!
