Cloud Reliability & Recovery Engineer

Skills

About the Role

You will design, implement, and continuously improve Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) capabilities across AWS cloud environments. In this hands-on technical role, you'll build highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient cloud architecture using Kubernetes for container orchestration and Terraform for infrastructure as code. You'll implement CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, reliable deployments, and you'll design multi-region failover, backup and restore automation, and recovery testing aligned with industry BCP/DR standards. You'll work closely with security, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure systems can withstand and rapidly recover from disruption, reporting to the Director of Event Response.

Requirements

• 5+ years in cloud infrastructure, SRE, or IT disaster recovery engineering roles
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience in production environments at scale
• Proven delivery of multi-region DR architectures with defined and tested RTO/RPO targets
• Expert-level proficiency with core AWS resilience services
• Strong scripting skills: Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation and orchestration
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: VPC, TGW, Direct Connect, VPN, DNS failover
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to produce executive-level DR reports
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional preferred
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty certification preferred
• Experience with AWS Resilience Hub for automated resilience assessments and policy enforcement preferred
• Familiarity with CloudEndure / AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery for workload replication preferred
• Knowledge of Kubernetes-based DR such as EKS multi-region, Velero backups, and ArgoCD GitOps failover preferred
• Hands-on experience with serverless DR patterns such as Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB preferred

Responsibilities

• Design and implement multi-region, multi-AZ AWS architectures that meet RTO/RPO targets
• Engineer active-active and active-passive failover patterns using Route 53, Global Accelerator, and CloudFront
• Build automated DR runbooks and playbooks using AWS Systems Manager Automation and Step Functions
• Implement chaos engineering practices using AWS Fault Injection Simulator to validate resiliency
• Architect cross-region replication strategies for S3, DynamoDB Global Tables, RDS, and Aurora Global
• Review containerized workloads using Kubernetes, ensuring resilience through self-healing, auto-scaling, and multi-cluster or multi-region deployments
• Administer AWS Backup across all services with policy-based automation
• Design immutable backup vaults and cross-account/cross-region backup replication pipelines
• Develop and automate data recovery testing procedures, ensuring integrity and meeting defined SLAs
• Implement point-in-time recovery for databases and storage; validate via regular restore drills
• Maintain Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery strategies, tracking RTO and RPO
• Author and maintain Terraform/CloudFormation templates for all BCP/DR infrastructure components
• Automate DR testing pipelines through CI/CD tools such as CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and GitHub Actions
• Write Python/Bash/PowerShell scripts to orchestrate failover, failback, and health-check workflows
• Manage infrastructure state in AWS Control Tower and implement Landing Zone DR patterns
• Build CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and composite alarms for availability and DR-readiness indicators
• Integrate AWS Health and Personal Health Dashboard events into PagerDuty/OpsGenie alerting workflows
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead DR incident response; conduct post-incident reviews
• Develop and maintain runbooks for AWS service degradations, regional outages, and data corruption events
• Conduct regular BCP/DR tabletop exercises and full failover simulations to validate recovery procedures
• Ensure DR controls meet SOC 2, ISO 22301, NIST 800-53, and HIPAA/PCI requirements as applicable
• Maintain current and accurate DR documentation including BIAs, BCPs, DRP runbooks, and recovery evidence
• Collaborate with audit and compliance teams to provide DR evidence and remediation tracking