Disaster Recovery Engineer II

LPL Financial•Charlotte, NC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

LPL Financial is seeking a Disaster Recovery Engineer II to support the resilience and recoverability of critical technology systems and applications. This hands-on engineering role implements, maintains, automates, and tests disaster recovery solutions across on-premises and cloud environments. The engineer partners with infrastructure, application, security, and technology teams to validate recovery capabilities, support disaster recovery exercises, monitor Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), and identify opportunities to improve recovery processes and automation. This is a hybrid role requiring onsite presence at LPL Financial’s Fort Mill, South Carolina office three days per week. The posted pay range is $35.01–$58.38 per hour. Actual base salary varies based on factors including relevant skills, prior experience, education, internal peer salary, demonstrated performance, and geographic location.

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience in disaster recovery, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, cloud engineering, or a related IT resilience role; the stated range is 3–5 years.
Hands-on experience implementing and supporting disaster recovery technologies, including replication, backup and recovery, virtualization, or recovery orchestration solutions.
Experience supporting cloud or hybrid disaster recovery environments, including AWS or Azure.
Hands-on experience with Python, PowerShell, or similar scripting technologies for automating infrastructure or recovery processes.
Working knowledge of disaster recovery principles, RTO/RPO concepts, and enterprise disaster recovery testing and recovery procedures.
Understanding of Windows and/or Linux operating systems.
Knowledge of storage, networking, virtualization, server, and cloud infrastructure concepts.
Experience executing disaster recovery exercises, recovery testing, or technology resiliency testing.
Ability to troubleshoot technical recovery issues across multiple infrastructure components.
Strong documentation skills, including developing and maintaining technical runbooks and recovery procedures.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to collaborate effectively with infrastructure, application, security, and engineering teams.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced enterprise technology environment.
Understanding of technology risk, controls, and change management.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in a large enterprise or highly regulated environment.
Experience within the financial services industry.
Familiarity with NIST, ISO 22301, FFIEC, or similar business continuity and resilience frameworks.
Experience with AWS and/or Azure-native resiliency and recovery capabilities.
Experience with disaster recovery orchestration or recovery automation technologies.
Relevant cloud, infrastructure, disaster recovery, or business continuity certifications.

Responsibilities

Implement, maintain, and support disaster recovery solutions for critical applications and infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments.
Configure and support replication, backup, recovery, virtualization, and related disaster recovery technologies.
Execute scheduled disaster recovery tests, exercises, and simulations to validate recovery procedures and technology capabilities.
Develop and maintain disaster recovery automation using Python, PowerShell, or similar scripting technologies.
Monitor recovery capabilities against established RTOs and RPOs and assist with identifying and remediating recovery gaps.
Troubleshoot technical issues identified during disaster recovery testing or recovery activities, partnering with appropriate engineering teams to resolve them.
Participate in incident response and recovery activities during significant outages or disaster events.
Develop and maintain disaster recovery procedures, technical configurations, runbooks, and supporting documentation.
Partner with infrastructure, application development, security, and cloud teams to incorporate recovery requirements into technology solutions.
Support continuous improvement of disaster recovery processes, testing, automation, reporting, and technical capabilities.