Sr Principal Disaster Recovery Architecture & Engineering

In this role, a typical day might include:
- Driving Tier 0 resiliency roadmaps—compute, storage, network, cloud, security, and automation frameworks
- Representing DR at Solution Design Engineering Reviews to embed recovery standards into every new or changed system
- Authoring recovery architectures for cyber-resilience, including offline/ransomware-protection strategies
- Leading enterprise-wide tabletop and hands-on recovery tests; analyzing results and closing gaps
- Developing RFPs and evaluating innovative technologies to improve recovery speed, scale, and automation

This Job Might Be For You If You
- Thrive on translating sophisticated technical challenges into practical, scalable recovery solutions
- Enjoy partnering with diverse teams in a matrix environment to influence architecture decisions
- Communicate crisply with engineers, executives, and vendors
- Stay calm and decisive while directing high-pressure recovery events or cyber-incident responses
- Relish process improvement and leverage infrastructure-as-code, automation, and multi-cloud design
- Value compliance and quality in a pharmaceutical manufacturing context

In order to be considered, you must have:
- 10+ years of IT infrastructure operations experience, and 5+ years leading enterprise DR architecture/engineering initiatives
- Expert knowledge of DR tools, VMware HA/SRM, multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) design, cloud recovery architectures, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Working familiarity with zero-trust concepts
- Proven ability to lead recovery testing, influence stakeholders across levels, and perform command-and-control leadership during planned and unplanned events
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field) preferred

Application instructions:
- Apply now.