[Hiring] Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer @DecisionPoint | Cortek

Role Description

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
• 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.

Qualifications

• Must hold an active Top Secret clearance, supported by a Tier 5 background investigation.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cloud Engineering, or a related field.
• 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.
• 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.
• Experience with automation, scripting, or orchestration tools to support DR workflows (preferred).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and DevSecOps environments (preferred).
• Experience supporting DR environments using AWS, Azure, or hybrid cloud (preferred).
• CompTIA Security+ (required).
• ITIL v4 Foundation (required).
• AWS, Azure, or cloud architecture certifications (preferred).
• Disaster recovery or business continuity certifications (preferred).

Requirements

• 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.

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