Disaster Recovery Technology Strategist

QTS Data Centers•Atlanta, GA

20h

About The Position

As a Senior individual contributor, you will establish and own the enterprise-wide Digital Disaster Recovery and resilience program. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the company can recover critical digital infrastructure and technical business operations following cyber incidents, infrastructure failures, or human error. This role is execution-focused, requiring you to partner across the enterprise to make recovery real, tested, and repeatable. You will design, implement, and maintain infrastructure-level disaster recovery processes for various platforms including compute, storage, network, identity, virtualization, and cloud. This involves developing and validating recovery runbooks, sequencing plans, failover procedures, and dependency maps. You will also lead and execute technical DR tests, identify and document critical dependencies, and collaborate with platform owners to define and enforce RTO/RPO objectives. Furthermore, you will coordinate engineers during tests and incidents, drive remediation of gaps, and serve as the primary point of contact for audit and compliance related to DDR.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related field (e.g., Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems) or equivalent practical experience
Five years in enterprise IT (infrastructure, SRE, operations, security)
Direct DR or large-scale incident recovery
Experience running DR tests or recovery events
Understanding of backup and recovery principles
Evaluation of RTO/RPO considerations
Proficiency in mapping application and infrastructure dependencies
Foundational knowledge of identity management, DNS, networking, and storage systems
Strong technical documentation and execution
Ability to translate technical risk into business impact
Confident facilitator of cross-functional exercises

Nice To Haves

Preferred experience in cyber recovery or ransomware response
Regulatory and audit-driven DR familiarity
Certifications such as ITIL or CBCP
Strong understanding of cyber recovery concepts, including clean-room restores, immutable backups, air-gapped architectures, and ransomware recovery
Strong technical knowledge of compute (VMware, HyperV, cloud compute), storage systems, SAN/NAS, replication technologies, and data protection platforms
Strong understanding of identity and access (AD, Azure AD), DNS, networking fundamentals, and how these control planes impact recovery
Skilled at coordinating large groups of engineers across multiple domains
Proficiency in dependency mapping and failover/failback procedures

Responsibilities

Establish and own the enterprise-wide Digital Disaster Recovery and resilience program
Ensure the company can recover critical digital infrastructure and technical business operations following cyber incidents, infrastructure failures, or human error
Partner across the enterprise to make recovery real, tested, and repeatable
Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure-level disaster recovery processes for compute, storage, network, identity, virtualization, and cloud platforms
Develop and validate recovery runbooks, sequencing plans, failover procedures, and dependency maps
Lead and execute technical DR tests, including component-level restores, partial failovers, and full integrated recovery exercises
Identify and document Tier 0/Tier 1 dependencies across identity, DNS, networking, hypervisors, storage arrays, backup platforms, and application stacks
Collaborate with platform owners to define, enforce, and maintain realistic RTO/RPO objectives; validate backup recoverability and integrity
Coordinate engineers across infrastructure, cloud, network, security, backup, and application teams during tests and real incidents; drive remediation of gaps/technical debt
Serve as primary point of contact for Internal Audit and external assessors for DDR scope; own audit evidence and compliance documentation