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Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer

DecisionPoint | Cortek

Remote

$107K - $146K/yr

Full-time

Re-posted 17 days ago

Job description

Overview
DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer to design, implement, and maintain enterprise Disaster Recovery (DR) architectures in support of a large federal and DoD-aligned IT program. This role ensures resilience, recoverability, and operational continuity across cloud-hosted environments, applications, networks, and mission-critical databases.
The Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer is responsible for DR strategy execution, DR site readiness, failover modeling, runbook development, and coordination with engineering, cloud, cybersecurity, and database teams. This position plays a key role in achieving mission continuity and ensuring alignment with federal and DoD DR requirements.
This position is fully remote.
Duties & Responsibilities
The Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer will:
  • Design, architect, and maintain Disaster Recovery solutions for cloud, application, network, and database environments.
  • Lead DR readiness activities, including validation of secondary sites, replication models, and failover configurations.
  • Develop and maintain detailed DR runbooks, procedures, and technical documentation.
  • Coordinate DR failover planning, including tabletop exercises, simulation testing, and execution of failback strategies.
  • Support Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) validation across all systems.
  • Work closely with cloud engineering teams to design resilient architectures leveraging cloud-native DR capabilities.
  • Coordinate with database administrators to ensure backup integrity, replication accuracy, and HA/DR compliance.
  • Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to ensure DR approaches align with RMF controls and IL5 security requirements.
  • Perform DR risk assessments, identify gaps, and recommend mitigation plans.
  • Provide DR status reporting, readiness summaries, and executive briefings.
  • Support continuous improvement efforts for DR architectures, tools, and testing strategies.

Qualifications
Clearance Requirement
Must hold an active Top Secret clearance, supported by a Tier 5 background investigation.
Education (Required)
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cloud Engineering, or a related field.
Experience (Required)
  • Minimum 10 years of experience in disaster recovery engineering, systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise IT operations.
  • Experience designing DR architectures for cloud, application, networking, and database systems.
  • Experience coordinating failover/failback procedures and DR testing activities.
  • Experience collaborating with engineering, security, and database teams on DR readiness.
  • Experience supporting DR efforts in federal or DoD environments preferred.

Technical Knowledge (Required)
  • Strong knowledge of DR frameworks, HA/DR design patterns, and system resiliency strategies.
  • Experience with cloud-native DR tools, replication, snapshots, backups, and multi-region architecture.
  • Understanding of IL5 security requirements, RMF controls, and DoD continuity expectations.
  • Proficiency with system monitoring, logging, and performance analysis tools.
  • Knowledge of network dependencies, load balancing, and failover routing.

Technical Knowledge (Preferred)
  • Experience with automation, scripting, or orchestration tools to support DR workflows.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and DevSecOps environments.
  • Experience supporting DR environments using AWS, Azure, or hybrid cloud.

Certifications
Required:
  • CompTIA Security+
  • ITIL v4 Foundation

Preferred:
  • AWS, Azure, or cloud architecture certifications
  • Disaster recovery or business continuity certifications

Skills
  • Strong problem solving and analytical abilities for complex DR scenarios.
  • Excellent communication skills for cross-team coordination and executive reporting.
  • Strong documentation skills for creating detailed runbooks and DR procedures.
  • Ability to lead DR testing activities and manage technical readiness efforts.
  • Attention to detail and commitment to enterprise resilience.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
  • EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
  • Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
  • Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.

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