Resiliency Architect, Senior Manager

US Locations: USA - Hermitage; USA - Cincinnati; USA - Cleveland; USA - Nashville; USA - Pittsburgh; USA - Tampa

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Work you'll do

We're seeking a Resiliency Architect to design, implement, and continuously improve our resiliency strategy for our global infrastructure.

You will lead the architecture for high availability, disaster recovery (DR), and business continuity-ensuring our critical workloads withstand failures, incidents, regional outages, and rapid demand shifts. This role partners closely with Platform Engineering, Products and Solutions, Security, and SRE/Operations stakeholders to meet stringent RTO/RPO targets.

The Resiliency Architect will be responsible for the following:

• Establishment of resilient architecture designs in collaboration with subject matter experts in respective disciplines including hosting (Cloud and on-prem), network, system management and application development.
• Assist with design of HA/FT patterns for distributed systems including active-active, active-passive, zone/region failover, as well as multi-cloud)
• Define and maintain DR Plans including run books, recovery tiers, data protection, and replication strategies, aligned to business impact analysis, RTO/RPO, and compliance requirements.
• Lead and manage regular resiliency testing and drive corrective actions
• Provide risk assessment and dependency mapping to architect solutions to minimize blast-radius and reduce + mitigate single points of failure.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and industry frameworks (e.g., ISO 22301/27001, NIST SP 800-34/53, SOC 2) and internal risk policies.

Do you have experience in System design?, Do you possess the following?:

• Key requirements include expertise in risk assessment, disaster recovery planning, infrastructure reliability, automation, and implementing pattern governance for system recovery
• System Resilience Modeling: Expertise in analyzing complex systems to eliminate single points of failure (SPOFs) and design of systems that can withstand load, attacks, and outages.
• Risk Management & Recovery: Deep knowledge of disaster recovery (DR) strategies, including defining Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
• Strategic Planning: Ability to create patterns for application architecture that adhere to resilience standards.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Ability to communicate technical risks, align resilience strategies with business continuity goals, and manage technical debt.
• 8+ years in architecture, platform engineering, or SRE, including 4+ years focused on availability/resiliency/DR.
• Hands-on experience with major CSP's (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Proven track record designing HA/DR for mission-critical applications (databases, servers, network and general infrastructure).
• Demonstrated experience leading DR testing efforts
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.

Preferred Certifications

• Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) or ISO 22301 Lead Implementer

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