Cloud Reliability & Recovery Engineer

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and continuously improve our Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) capabilities across AWS cloud environments.

This is a hands-on technical role requiring deep AWS expertise, strong scripting skills, and a passion for building highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient cloud architecture by leveraging container orchestration with Kubernetes and infrastructure as code using Terraform. Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, reliable deployments and minimize downtime. Adept at implementing DR strategies including multi-region failover, backup and restore automation, and recovery testing aligned with industry BCP/DR standards. You will collaborate closely with security, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure our systems can withstand and rapidly recover from any disruption.

Reports To: Director of Event Response
Level: Senior Individual Contributor

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Resilience Architecture

• Design and implement multi-region, multi-AZ AWS architectures that meet RTO/RPO targets
• Engineer active-active and active-passive failover patterns using Route 53, Global Accelerator, and CloudFront
• Build automated DR runbooks and playbooks using AWS Systems Manager Automation and Step Functions
• Implement chaos engineering practices using AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) to validate resiliency
• Architect cross-region replication strategies for S3, DynamoDB Global Tables, RDS, and Aurora Global
• Review containerized workloads using Kubernetes, ensuring resilience through self-healing, auto-scaling, and multi-cluster or multi-region deployments.

Backup & Recovery Engineering

• Administer AWS Backup across all services (EC2, EBS, RDS, EFS, FSx, DynamoDB, Aurora) with policy-based automation
• Design immutable backup vaults and cross-account/cross-region backup replication pipelines
• Develop and automate data recovery testing procedures, ensuring integrity and meeting defined SLAs
• Implement point-in-time recovery (PITR) for databases and storage; validate via regular restore drills
• Maintain Business Continuity Plans (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies, including tracking RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective).

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Author and maintain Terraform/CloudFormation templates for all BCP/DR infrastructure components
• Automate DR testing pipelines through CI/CD (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, GitHub Actions)
• Write Python/Bash/PowerShell scripts to orchestrate failover, failback, and health-check workflows
• Manage infrastructure state in AWS Control Tower and implement Landing Zone DR patterns

Monitoring, Alerting & Incident Response

• Build CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and composite alarms for availability and DR-readiness indicators
• Integrate AWS Health, Personal Health Dashboard events into PagerDuty/OpsGenie alerting workflows
• Participate in on-call rotations and lead DR incident response; conduct post-incident reviews (PIRs)
• Develop and maintain runbooks for AWS service degradations, regional outages, and data corruption events

Governance, Compliance & Testing

• Conduct regular  BCP/DR tabletop exercises and full failover simulations to validate recovery procedures and improve organizational readiness, document results and action items.
• Ensure DR controls meet SOC 2, ISO 22301, NIST 800-53, and HIPAA/PCI requirements as applicable
• Maintain current and accurate DR documentation: BIAs, BCPs, DRP runbooks, and recovery evidence
• Collaborate with audit and compliance teams to provide DR evidence and remediation tracking

 

Required Qualifications:

Experience

• 5+ years in cloud infrastructure, SRE, or IT disaster recovery engineering roles
• 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience in production environments at scale
• Proven delivery of multi-region DR architectures with defined and tested RTO/RPO targets
• Expert-level proficiency with core AWS resilience services (see skills matrix below)
• Strong scripting skills: Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation and orchestration
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: VPC, TGW, Direct Connect, VPN, DNS failover
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to produce executive-level DR reports

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty certification
• Experience with AWS Resilience Hub for automated resilience assessments and policy enforcement
• Familiarity with CloudEndure / AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) for workload replication
• Knowledge of Kubernetes-based DR (EKS multi-region, Velero backups, ArgoCD GitOps failover)
• Hands-on experience with serverless DR patterns (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB)

 

About Our Security Team:

You'll be joining a security organization that emphasizes automation, engineering-driven approaches, and systematic problem-solving. Our team operates at the intersection of security operations, detection engineering, incident response, and infrastructure security. We value practical solutions, measurable outcomes, and continuous improvement.

Reporting to the Director of Event Response you'll execute on strategic initiatives to operationalize mature BCP/DR capabilities that protect AlphaSense's mission-critical operations and support our commitment to customer trust. This role sits at the critical intersection of incident response and business continuity, ensuring our ability to respond to and recover from major disruptions.