Staff Security Engineer, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Staff Security Engineer, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery.

Location: Remote.
Salary: Competitive.
Employer: AlphaSense.

Responsibilities:
• Design and implement comprehensive BCP/DR programs aligned with industry frameworks (ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, ISO 27001)
• Conduct Business Impact Analyses (BIA) to identify critical business functions, dependencies, and recovery priorities
• Define and maintain Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for all critical systems and services
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery playbooks and runbooks for various incident scenarios
• Create and manage crisis communication frameworks for security incidents and business disruptions
• Lead tabletop exercises and disaster recovery drills to validate recovery procedures
• Design and implement backup and recovery solutions for AWS cloud infrastructure (primary focus)
• Build automated backup workflows for databases, storage systems, applications, and configurations
• Implement immutable backup strategies and offsite replication for ransomware resilience
• Monitor backup operations, validate recovery procedures, and maintain backup integrity
• Optimize backup windows, retention policies, and storage costs across cloud environments
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for DR environment provisioning and configuration management
• Develop automated failover and failback procedures for critical services
• Design and maintain hot/warm/cold standby environments based on business requirements
• Conduct regular disaster recovery testing and document test results with improvement recommendations
• Build monitoring and alerting systems for backup health, replication lag, and recovery readiness
• Maintain detailed recovery documentation including network diagrams, dependency maps, and configuration details
• Coordinate with application teams to ensure application-consistent backups and recovery procedures
• Ensure BCP/DR programs meet regulatory requirements and customer commitments
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of recovery procedures, test results, and capability assessments
• Track and report on key resilience metrics including RTO/RPO achievement, test success rates, and recovery drills
• Coordinate with internal audit and compliance teams during assessments
• Participate in vendor risk assessments for third-party backup and recovery solutions.

Requirements:
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS required; GCP/Azure beneficial)
• Deep expertise in enterprise backup and recovery solutions (Veeam, Commvault, AWS Backup, or similar)
• Strong understanding of cloud storage services (S3, EBS, EFS, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.)
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
• Experience with containerized environments (ECS, EKS, Docker) and their backup/recovery patterns
• Knowledge of database backup and recovery procedures (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)
• Understanding of storage technologies, replication methods, and data protection architectures
• 3+ years of experience in Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery
• Proven track record of designing and implementing BCP/DR programs for technology organizations
• Experience conducting Business Impact Analyses and developing recovery strategies
• Knowledge of BCP/DR frameworks and standards (ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, ISO 27001)
• Experience leading disaster recovery exercises and tabletop simulations
• Understanding of incident management and crisis communication protocols
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation and orchestration
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment and testing
• Ability to write clean, maintainable code with proper error handling and logging
• Understanding of configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus).

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