Disaster Recovery Specialist with Cutover tool experience

Senior Disaster Recovery Architect (POD Model)

Location - Chennai, Bangalore and Noida

Experience - 9+ yrs

Mandate skill - Disaster Recovery and cutover skill

Job Title :

Senior Disaster Recovery Architect

Overview of the Role :

The Senior Disaster Recovery Architect plays a critical role in ensuring the resilience of our IT infrastructure. This position is vital for maintaining the continuity of enterprise-critical I / S services and work processes. The successful candidate will lead disaster recovery requirements gathering, recommend recovery strategies, and architect robust solutions integrating advanced DR, cutover, and chaos engineering practices.

Lead disaster recovery requirements gathering and recommend BCMDR strategies and options.

Design, document, and review comprehensive disaster recovery test cases and execution plans. Ensure all DR scenarios are covered and validated through structured testing and documentation.

Own the end-to-end development, review, and continuous improvement of business recovery plans and protocols.

Create HLD / LLD / TRG documents for DR implementations.

Architect and automate DR workflows using Zerto,

Cutover (must-have),

Perpetuuiti, and Gremlin.

Integrate DR solutions with cloud and on-prem infrastructure (ESXi, AWS, Azure, GCP).

Conduct risk assessments and analyze the potential impact of business interruptions.

Align IT organization priorities with key business objectives and compliance requirements.

Facilitate and validate DR drills, including chaos experiments (Gremlin).

Collaborate with SREs and Cutover Specialists for seamless cutover and reliability.

Develop and track program metrics to show activities and progress.

Review, configure, and maintain business continuity and crisis management tools.

Coordinate with health, safety, and security staff and external agencies to align emergency management plans.

Manage response coordination and communications during business disruptions.

Lead troubleshooting, optimization, and continuous enhancement of disaster recovery operations and methods.

Comply with all policies and standards.

Skill Requirements

Proven experience in disaster recovery architecture and business continuity planning.

Experience with Cutover tool (must-have).

Hands-on with Zerto, Perpetuuiti, Gremlin.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation (Ansible, workflow-based DR automation).

Cloud infrastructure build / troubleshooting (ESXi, AWS, Azure, GCP).

DevOps practices (CI / CD, scripting in Bash / PowerShell).

Knowledge of SRE and Chaos Engineering principles.

Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Other Requirements (Optional)

Certifications in disaster recovery or business continuity preferred.

Certification in any public cloud Architect will be preferred.

Experience working in a multinational technology company advantageous