Resilience / DR Architect
Job Details
Job Title:
Resilience / DR Architect
Department:
Information Technology (IT)
Location:
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Job Type:
Full Time
Salary:
TBD
Job Description of Resilience / DR Architect
✅ We are looking for an experienced Resilience / DR Architect to join our team in Abu Dhabi. In this role, you will define how critical enterprise systems stay available, recover quickly, and withstand disruption.
✅ You will assess existing infrastructure, data centres, and hybrid cloud environments, then design target-state architectures that meet demanding recovery objectives. Your work will help clients, especially in regulated sectors such as banking and financial services, protect essential services and build confidence in their continuity capabilities.
Key Responsibilities of Resilience / DR Architect
✅ Design and govern Disaster Recovery, High Availability, and resilience architectures across enterprise infrastructure and applications
✅ Architect Active-Active, Active-Passive, multi-site, and multi-region solutions
✅ Define and validate RTO/RPO requirements and translate them into practical technical designs
✅ Perform dependency mapping and Single Point of Failure (SPOF) assessments across systems, platforms, and services
✅ Assess the resilience and recovery capabilities of data centres, hybrid cloud, and enterprise infrastructure
✅ Conduct architecture risk assessments and develop target-state designs and remediation roadmaps
✅ Produce governance and architecture documentation, including standards, designs, and recovery strategies
✅ Work with infrastructure, application, security, and business teams to align resilience designs with business continuity goals
✅ Use enterprise architecture and CMDB tools (e.g., ServiceNow CMDB) to maintain accurate service and dependency views
Qualification Required for Resilience / DR Architect
✅ Education
✅ Bachelor’s Degree
✅ Experience
✅ 10+ years in Infrastructure, Solution, or Enterprise Architecture, including 5+ years in DR / HA / Resilience Architecture
✅ Skills and Expertise
✅ Strong expertise in Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, failover, and high-availability design
✅ Experience designing Active-Active, Active-Passive, multi-site, and multi-region architectures
✅ Hands-on architecture design for RTO/RPO requirements, dependency mapping, and SPOF assessments
✅ Experience assessing enterprise infrastructure, data centres, hybrid cloud, and recovery capabilities
✅ Strong skills in architecture risk assessment, target-state design, remediation roadmaps, and governance documentation
✅ Exposure to AWS, Azure, VMware, Kubernetes, ServiceNow CMDB, and enterprise architecture tools
✅ Preferred
✅ Banking / Financial Services experience
✅ TOGAF or cloud architecture certifications