Infrastructure Subject Matter Expert for BCDR & DR Automation

Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Architecture & Readiness: Review and validate the end-to-end infrastructure architecture supporting automated DR failover and failback, including:
• Network, Security, Compute, storage, virtualization, containers, and data center components
• Ensure the design supports high availability, resiliency, and recoverability aligned with business requirements.
• DR Automation Integration: Act as the primary bridge between infrastructure teams and the DR Automation team, ensuring alignment and seamless collaboration. Review and validate automated failover/failback workflows across infrastructure components, including:
• Network, Security, Servers, storage, DNS, virtualization platforms, and container environments
• Collaborate on the development of pre-failover validation scripts to ensure readiness before execution.
• Recovery Objectives & Capacity Planning: Review and validate infrastructure-level RTOs, ensuring alignment with application and business recovery requirements. Ensure sufficient capacity and performance within DR sites and automation platforms to support:
• Full failover scenarios
• Partial or phased failover scenarios
• Technical Leadership & Engagement: Lead and actively participate in technical discussions and workshops across:
• Discovery
• Validation
• Tabletop exercises
• Provide domain expertise and recommendations to ensure robust infrastructure design and DR strategy alignment.
• Performance & Validation: Oversee and validate infrastructure performance testing during and after DR failover/failback activities. Ensure that systems meet defined performance benchmarks and recovery objectives post-recovery.
• Compliance & Audit Readiness: Review and ensure adherence to audit and regulatory requirements, particularly around:
• Logging
• Monitoring
• Traceability of DR activities
• Support audit readiness by ensuring proper documentation and controls are in place.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Application, Network, Security, Database, and Business teams to ensure end-to-end alignment. Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure dependencies are properly managed across infrastructure and application layers.
• Continuous Improvement & Optimization: Identify opportunities to optimize infrastructure resilience, performance, and cost efficiency. Drive continuous improvement initiatives based on test results, incidents, and evolving business needs.
• Strong expertise in enterprise infrastructure design and operations (network, compute, storage, virtualization, cloud).
• Hands-on experience with Disaster Recovery architectures and DR automation tools.
• Deep understanding of failover/failback mechanisms and infrastructure dependencies.

Experience

Experience