Senior Cloud Resilience Architect

3 months ago

Delhi, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

Evaluate and mature disaster recovery posture, including recovery objectives, dependency mapping, and failure domain analysis.
Define and establish disaster recovery standards and best practices across cloud infrastructure, platforms, and application architectures.
Design and implement resilient, fault-tolerant systems progressing toward multi-region and active-active architectures.
Lead the disaster recovery roadmap while balancing technical feasibility, cost, risk, and business priorities.
Design reference architectures for pilot-light, warm standby, hot standby, and active-active recovery patterns.
Drive active-active disaster recovery adoption, including traffic management, data replication, consistency models, and automated failover.
Define and operationalize DR testing strategies, including game days, chaos testing, and recovery exercises.
Establish documentation, runbooks, and escalation paths for reliable recovery operations.
Evaluate and recommend platform upgrades, cloud services, and tooling that improve resilience and recovery speed.
Serve as a technical authority and advisor on disaster recovery and resilience.
Provide architectural guidance, design reviews, and mentorship to engineers implementing DR changes.
Partner with security and compliance teams to meet regulatory, audit, and data protection requirements.
Automate recovery workflows, failover testing, and environment provisioning to reduce manual recovery steps and time to recovery.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, or reliability-focused architecture roles.
Deep understanding of disaster recovery concepts including RTO/RPO, blast radius reduction, failure domains, and dependency isolation.
Proven experience designing and implementing multi-region and multi-availability-zone architectures, including active-active or highly available systems.
Strong understanding of data replication strategies, consistency tradeoffs, and recovery patterns for databases and stateful systems.
Extensive experience with major cloud providers; AWS is preferred, with GCP or Azure acceptable.
Experience with Kubernetes-based platforms, regional failover, workload portability, and cluster recovery strategies.
Familiarity with global traffic management, DNS, load balancing, and service mesh patterns.
Experience designing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
Experience defining and running disaster recovery tests, game days, and failure simulations.
Strong documentation, communication, and cross-organizational influencing skills.