Infrastructure Disaster Recovery Technical Lead

The Infrastructure Disaster Recovery Technical Lead is responsible for the design, implementation, and operational excellence of enterprise infrastructure systems with a strong emphasis on Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity, and Azure Cloud platforms. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on delivering resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructure across hybrid environments, including both Azure cloud and on-premise datacenters.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Lead architecture, design, and deployment of Azure-based and on-premise infrastructure solutions, including IaaS, PaaS, and hybrid environments.

• Serve as a senior technical authority for infrastructure resiliency, availability, and recovery strategies.

• Define and enforce RTO/RPO objectives across critical systems and applications.

• Drive adoption of Azure-native resiliency services (e.g., Azure Site Recovery, Backup, Availability Zones).

Disaster Recovery & Resiliency

• Design, implement, and maintain end-to-end Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions across cloud and on-premise platforms.

• Ensure alignment of DR strategies across Azure workloads and on-premise infrastructure (VMware, physical servers, storage systems).

• Lead DR testing, failover/failback exercises, and simulation scenarios.

• Ensure compliance with internal controls, audit requirements, and regulatory standards.

• Identify infrastructure risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure business continuit

​Operations & Hybrid Infrastructure

• Oversee and optimize day-to-day infrastructure operations across both cloud and on-premise environments.

• Maintain high availability of compute platforms (VMs, containers, physical servers) and storage systems (SAN/NAS, Azure Storage).

• Drive standardization and modernization of on-premise environments into hybrid cloud models.

• Ensure proactive monitoring, alerting, and incident response for all critical platforms.

Automation & Engineering

• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation using tools such as Ansible and Terraform (optional).

• Develop automated solutions for infrastructure provisioning, patch management, and DR failover orchestration.

• Promote engineering best practices, including configuration management and version control.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Technology or related field

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud operations, or platform engineering

• Experience across both Azure cloud and on-premise infrastructure environments.

• Experience with high availability architectures, backup and recovery strategies, and hybrid infrastructure design.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience designing and implementing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions.

• Hands-on experience with automation/scripting (e.g., Ansible, PowerShell, Python).

• Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator).

• Experience with hybrid cloud platforms and migrations.

• Experience with VMware or other virtualization technologies.

• Experience with enterprise storage and backup solutions.

• Experience with Azure governance and cost optimization.

• Familiarity with ITIL or modern service management practices.

• Strong hands-on technical expertise across hybrid environments.

• Strategic thinking with practical, execution-focused delivery.

• Advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.