Infrastructure Subject Matter Expert for BCDR & DR Automation
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About the Role
Deepsource Technologies seeks an Infrastructure SME to ensure IT infrastructure supports BCDR and DR automation. The role involves reviewing architecture, integrating DR automation, and leading technical discussions.
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Responsibilities
- Review and validate end to end infrastructure architecture supporting automated DR failover and failback
- Act as primary bridge between infrastructure teams and DR Automation team
- Review and validate automated failover/failback workflows across infrastructure components
- Review and validate infrastructure level RTOs and ensure capacity planning for DR sites
- Lead technical discussions and workshops for discovery, validation, and tabletop exercises
- Oversee and validate infrastructure performance testing during and after DR failover/failback
- Ensure adherence to audit and regulatory requirements for logging, monitoring, and traceability
- Collaborate with Application, Network, Security, Database, and Business teams
- Identify opportunities to optimize infrastructure resilience, performance, and cost efficiency
Requirements
- Strong expertise in enterprise infrastructure design and operations (network, compute, storage, virtualization, cloud)
- Hands on experience with Disaster Recovery architectures and DR automation tools
- Deep understanding of failover/failback mechanisms and infrastructure dependencies
- Experience in capacity planning, performance testing, and high availability design
- Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements related to DR and infrastructure
- Strong stakeholder communication and cross team coordination skills
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Role Overview
- The Infrastructure SME plays a critical role in ensuring that the underlying IT infrastructure fully supports Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) objectives, with a strong focus on DR Automation.
- This role bridges infrastructure and automation teams, ensuring resilience, scalability, and seamless failover/failback execution across all infrastructure layers.
Key Responsibilities
- Review and validate the end to end infrastructure architecture supporting automated DR failover and failback, including network, security, compute, storage, virtualization, containers, and data center components.
- Ensure the design supports high availability, resiliency, and recoverability aligned with business requirements.
- Act as the primary bridge between infrastructure teams and the DR Automation team, ensuring alignment and seamless collaboration.
- Review and validate automated failover/failback workflows across infrastructure components including network, security, servers, storage, DNS, virtualization platforms, and container environments.
- Collaborate on the development of pre failover validation scripts to ensure readiness before execution.
- Review and validate infrastructure level RTOs, ensuring alignment with application and business recovery requirements.
- Ensure sufficient capacity and performance within DR sites and automation platforms to support full failover scenarios and partial or phased failover scenarios.
- Lead and actively participate in technical discussions and workshops across discovery, validation, and tabletop exercises.
- Provide domain expertise and recommendations to ensure robust infrastructure design and DR strategy alignment.
- Oversee and validate infrastructure performance testing during and after DR failover/failback activities.
- Ensure that systems meet defined performance benchmarks and recovery objectives post recovery.
- Review and ensure adherence to audit and regulatory requirements, particularly around logging, monitoring, and traceability of DR activities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in large scale BCDR and DR Automation programs.
- Certifications in infrastructure technologies, cloud platforms, or DR/BCDR frameworks.
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