Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer
About The Position
LPL Financial is seeking a Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer to serve as a senior technical subject matter expert responsible for designing and engineering resilient disaster recovery solutions across complex on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. The role provides technical leadership for DR architecture, engineering standards, automation, complex recovery testing, and remediation of recovery risks. The engineer partners with architects and engineering teams to help ensure critical technology solutions are recoverable and meet established RTO and RPO requirements. The position leads technical design and implementation of recovery solutions, develops automation and reusable engineering practices, and leads complex recovery exercises and activities. It also evaluates architectures and recovery risks, collaborates across technology teams, provides technical guidance during outages, mentors engineers, and maintains technical architecture, procedures, standards, and runbooks. This is a hybrid role requiring onsite presence at the Fort Mill, South Carolina office 2–3 days per week.
Requirements
- 7+ years of progressive experience in disaster recovery engineering, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, cloud engineering, or technology resilience within complex enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated experience designing and engineering complex enterprise disaster recovery solutions across on-premises, hybrid, and/or cloud environments.
- Advanced knowledge of recovery technologies, including replication, backup and recovery, virtualization, storage, cloud resiliency, and recovery orchestration.
- Strong experience with AWS and/or Azure architecture and disaster recovery capabilities, including designing solutions to meet RTO and RPO requirements.
- Hands-on experience with Python, PowerShell, or similar scripting and automation technologies used to automate infrastructure, testing, validation, or recovery processes.
- Advanced understanding of RTO, RPO, recovery architecture, and technology resilience principles.
- Deep understanding of infrastructure components, including networking, storage, compute, virtualization, operating systems, databases, and cloud services.
- Experience leading complex disaster recovery tests, simulations, and technical recovery activities.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex recovery issues across multiple technology layers.
- Experience performing root-cause analysis and driving technical remediation.
- Ability to evaluate application and infrastructure designs for recoverability and resilience.
- Experience developing engineering standards, architecture patterns, technical procedures, and runbooks.
- Strong analytical and technical decision-making capabilities.
- Ability to influence technical teams without direct authority.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex recovery risks and technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to provide technical mentoring and guidance to other engineers.
- Knowledge of technology risk management, controls, and regulatory expectations related to technology resilience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
- Experience supporting disaster recovery within a large-scale enterprise environment.
- Familiarity with FFIEC, NIST, ISO 22301, or related resilience and business continuity frameworks.
- AWS and/or Azure professional-level certifications.
- Disaster recovery, business continuity, or resilience certifications.
- Experience with advanced DR orchestration and automated recovery solutions.
- Experience designing multi-region or multi-site recovery architectures.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical design and engineering of complex disaster recovery solutions across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
- Serve as a senior technical subject matter expert for disaster recovery architecture, engineering, automation, and recovery technologies.
- Design and implement recovery solutions incorporating replication, backup and recovery, virtualization, cloud resiliency, and recovery orchestration technologies.
- Lead complex DR exercises and technical recovery activities, troubleshoot failures, identify root causes, and drive remediation.
- Assess application and infrastructure architectures for recoverability and alignment with established RTO and RPO requirements.
- Develop engineering standards, reusable patterns, and technical best practices for resilient and recoverable solutions.
- Design and develop advanced automation using Python, PowerShell, or similar technologies to improve DR testing, orchestration, validation, and recovery.
- Partner with cloud, infrastructure, application, security, database, storage, and network engineering teams to incorporate recovery requirements into technology designs.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance during significant outages and recovery events.
- Identify material technical recovery risks and drive remediation with appropriate engineering and application teams.
- Evaluate emerging disaster recovery and resilience technologies and recommend improvements to the firm's recovery capabilities.
- Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance to technology teams on disaster recovery engineering practices.
- Maintain technical architecture, recovery procedures, engineering standards, and complex recovery runbooks.
Benefits
- 401(k) matching
- Health benefits
- Employee stock options
- Paid time off
- Volunteer time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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