Principal Infrastructure Architect-Disaster Recovery

Humana • Louisville, KY

5d • Remote

About The Position

The Principal IT Disaster Recovery Architect defines DR strategy and supports integration and implementation across systems and applications within the organization. The Principal IT Disaster Recovery Architect provides strategic advice and guidance to infrastructure and application team(s); is highly skilled with broad technical experience and advanced DR Program strategy and operations expertise. The Principal IT Disaster Recovery Architect defines and enables DR strategy and maturity across the organization. Ensures controls, solution and process effectively align to advance DR capabilities and functionality. Works with a broad array of infrastructure engineers, architects, application teams and production support to educate, align and mature DR capabilities and the integration of DR. Focuses on continuous improvement of DR testing to support recovery validation and drive operational resilience. Develops solutions and pathways to increase recoverability through industry expertise and peer-based relationships. Works with senior leaders and executives to drive an enterprise-wide functional strategy. Demonstrates expertise and acts as an advisor on DR strategy with all levels of leadership. Provides recommendations to senior leaders on matters of significance, and as an advanced subject matter expert competent to work at very high levels in multiple knowledge and functional areas across the enterprise.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 10+ years of technical IT experience
• 2-5 years of project/people leadership
• 5 years of Significant cloud engineering/architecture experience in multi-region disaster recovery configurations

Nice To Haves

• Multi-Region Cloud Architecture/Engineering with disaster recovery emphasis Azure GCP
• Multi-Site (on-Premise) Architecture/Engineering with disaster recovery emphasis
• GTM Load Balancing
• Hypervisor/VMs
• SQL Clustering
• AIX
• Oracle Exadata
• Storage Area Networks / NAS
• Storage/Replication
• Backup Data Strategy
• Cloud On-Premise Cyber Vault Architecture/Operations
• Cloud On-Premise

Responsibilities

• Defines DR strategy and supports integration and implementation across systems and applications within the organization.
• Provides strategic advice and guidance to infrastructure and application team(s).
• Defines and enables DR strategy and maturity across the organization.
• Ensures controls, solution and process effectively align to advance DR capabilities and functionality.
• Works with a broad array of infrastructure engineers, architects, application teams and production support to educate, align and mature DR capabilities and the integration of DR.
• Focuses on continuous improvement of DR testing to support recovery validation and drive operational resilience.
• Develops solutions and pathways to increase recoverability through industry expertise and peer-based relationships.
• Works with senior leaders and executives to drive an enterprise-wide functional strategy.
• Demonstrates expertise and acts as an advisor on DR strategy with all levels of leadership.
• Provides recommendations to senior leaders on matters of significance, and as an advanced subject matter expert competent to work at very high levels in multiple knowledge and functional areas across the enterprise.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave)
• short-term and long-term disability
• life insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal