Brunswick

Resiliency Architect

Mettawa, IL Full time

Are you ready for what’s next?  

Come explore opportunities within Brunswick, a global marine leader committed to challenging conventions and innovating next-generation technologies that transform experiences on the water and beyond.  Brunswick believes “Next Never Rests™,” and we offer a variety of exciting careers and growth opportunities within united teams defining the future of marine recreation. 

Summary:

The Enterprise Resiliency Architect is responsible for designing and governing Brunswick’s enterprise-wide resilience architecture across IT, cloud, and operational technology (OT) environments. This role owns the strategy and standards for backup and restore, redundancy, failover, and cyber-resilient recovery, ensuring the organization can withstand and rapidly recover from disruptions of any type — whether infrastructure failure, ransomware attack, or site-level outage. Operating in a matrix model, the architect partners with infrastructure, cloud, security, and application teams to ensure consistent implementation and testing of resilience controls across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy & Governance

  • Own and maintain the Enterprise Resilience and Disaster Recovery (ER/DR) standards, policies, and architecture roadmap.

  • Define roles and responsibilities across Brunswick divisions (Boat Group, Mercury, Navico, Corporate) to ensure clear accountability for recovery and continuity.

  • Embed resilience requirements into technology design, procurement, and change processes.

  • Drive policy adherence through both enforcement and metrics-based reporting to the Director of Cyber Resilience, CISO, CIO, and executive leadership.

Backup & Restore Architecture

  • Design and maintain immutable, versioned backup solutions using Rubrik and complementary platforms as needed.

  • Define and validate Recovery Time (RTO) and Recovery Point (RPO) objectives for all critical applications and data assets.

  • Oversee regular backup restoration testing — quarterly for critical systems, semi-annual for others — to validate recovery integrity and performance.

  • Integrate ransomware-ready design principles including immutable storage and clean-room rebuild capabilities.

Redundancy & Failover Design

  • Architect high-availability (HA) and geographically redundant solutions across hybrid workloads and manufacturing operations.

  • Balance active-active architecture for mission-critical applications with controlled active-passive failover for other systems.

  • Collaborate with cloud, network, and infrastructure teams to ensure resilience is designed into core platforms and validated through testing.

Cyber-Resilience & Risk Reduction

  • Lead enterprise initiatives for ransomware recovery, immutable backup validation, and clean-room recovery simulation.

  • Perform impact and dependency analysis to prioritize resilience investments for business-critical applications and OT systems.

  • Integrate threat intelligence and risk data into resilience planning to address emerging attack vectors and supply-chain risks.

Testing, Metrics & Continuous Improvement

  • Establish and maintain an enterprise resilience testing program that includes quarterly and semi-annual recovery exercises, tabletop scenarios, and failover drills.

  • Track and report resilience KPIs including RTO/RPO compliance, test success rates, coverage, and audit readiness.

  • Document lessons learned and drive continuous improvement through updated architecture patterns, playbooks, and automation initiatives.

Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Operate in a matrix model to influence infrastructure, cloud, application, and manufacturing teams toward resilience objectives.

  • Provide resilience consultation to major projects, acquisitions, and modernization initiatives.

  • Represent the Cyber Resilience function in executive readouts, risk committees, and audit reviews.

Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline.

  • 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, disaster recovery, or resilience architecture across hybrid environments.

  • Hands-on expertise with Rubrik and other enterprise backup and replication technologies.

  • Proven experience designing and testing HA and DR architectures across cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and on-prem environments.

  • Strong knowledge of cyber-resilience principles, immutable storage, and ransomware recovery frameworks.

  • Demonstrated ability to influence and coordinate matrixed teams to achieve enterprise objectives.

Preferred Qualifications:

  •  Certifications such as CBCP, DRII, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer,or CISSP.

  •  Familiarity with Zero Trust and NIST CSF resilience domains.

  •  Experience with IaC and automation tools (Terraform, Ansible) for DR orchestration and testing.

  •  Prior experience in manufacturing or industrial control environments is a plus.

Travel Requirements:

  • Occasional travel (up to 10%) to Brunswick facilities, manufacturing sites, or recovery locations for testing and validation.

The anticipated pay range for this position is $115,700 - $185,900 annually. The actual base pay offered will vary depending on multiple factors including job- related knowledge/skills, relevant experience, business needs, and geographic location. In addition to base pay, this position is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

At Brunswick, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the salary range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent upon the specifics of the candidate’s qualifications and the business context.

This position is eligible to participate in Brunswick's comprehensive and high-quality benefits offerings, including medical, dental, vision, paid vacation, 401k (up to 4% match), Health Savings Account (with company contribution), well-being program, product purchase discounts and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here.

Why Brunswick: 

Whatever tomorrow brings, we’ll be at the leading edge.  As the clear leader in the marine industry, we’re committed to our values and supporting our exceptional people. We offer and encourage growth opportunities within and across our many brands. In addition, we’re proud of being recognized for making a splash with numerous awards

About Brunswick:  

Brunswick Corporation is a leader in the marine industry, and we’re looking for people just like you to take part in the movement towards better boating for all. We rely on the thoughtful input of people from all backgrounds to create compelling, innovative products for our customers around the globe. As such, diversity, equity, and inclusion are priorities in the enduring culture of our company. As a world leader in emerging recreational products and technologies, when you join our team, you become part of some of the most innovative, forward-looking brands in the marine industry today.   

Next is Now!  


We value growth and development, recognizing that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please still consider applying.

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