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Disaster Recovery (Lead) L3 Role Overview The Disaster Recovery (DR) L3 Engineer is a senior technical role responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise grade disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. This role provides deep technical expertise during DR architecture planning, develops runbooks, executes DR drills, resolves complex escalations, and ensures organizational resilience against system failures, cyberattacks, and large scale outages. Key Responsibilities 1. Disaster Recovery Architecture & Design Design and implement DR solutions across on prem, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures. Define RPO/RTO requirements in alignment with business objectives. Evaluate and recommend DR technologies (backup solutions, replication, failover, orchestration tools). Architect DR strategies for mission critical applications, databases, and infrastructure. 2. Operations & Maintenance Maintain DR sites, replication processes, DR automation scripts, and orchestration frameworks. Conduct periodic health checks of DR systems, backup integrity, replication lag, and failover readiness. Ensure compliance with DR policies, security standards, and audit requirements. 3. DR Testing & Drills Plan and execute DR drills-annual, semi annual, or customer driven. Document drill outcomes, perform gap analysis, and implement corrective actions. Create and maintain DR runbooks, recovery workflows, and step by step SOPs. 4. L3 Escalations & Troubleshooting Act as the highest point of technical escalation for DR/BCP issues. Troubleshoot complex failures involving storage, networking, compute, databases, backup tools, and cloud services. Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for DR related incidents or failover failures. 5. Automation & Optimization Develop automation for backup validation, replication monitoring, DR failover/failback workflows. Improve DR performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Work with DevOps/SRE teams to integrate DR processes into CI/CD. 6. Cross Functional Collaboration Work with application teams, infra teams, cloud CoE, InfoSec, and business stakeholders. Support audits, compliance checks (ISO 22301, SOC2, RBI, PCI-DSS depending on org). Lead technical communication during outages or DR events. Required Skills & Experience Technical Skills Expertise in DR/Backup tools: Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup, Rubrik, Zerto, Azure Site Recovery, AWS DR/Backup, VMware SRM, etc. Deep understanding of: Storage (SAN/NAS), replication technologies Virtualization (VMware/Hyper V/KVM) Windows/Linux servers Network failover concepts (DNS, routing, load balancing) Strong experience with cloud DR (Azure/AWS/GCP). Experience in scripting/automation (PowerShell, Python, Bash). Behavioral Skills Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Ability to work under pressure during outages. Excellent documentation and communication skills. Experience 6+ years of experience in Infrastructure/DR/Backup roles. At least 3 years in an L3/Senior engineering capacity. Preferred Certifications DR/BCP : CBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer Cloud : AWS/Azure Architect certifications Virtualization/Storage : VMware VCP, Dell/NetApp certifications Backup/DR tools : Vendor specific certifications (Rubrik, Commvault, Veeam, Zerto, etc.) Sample Job Title Variants Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer L3 Disaster Recovery Specialist DR & BCP Senior Engineer Resilience & Continuity Engineer Business Continuity & DR Architect