We are seeking a Disaster Recovery (DR) Architect with solid operational experience and expertise in designing resilient IT systems.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with high availability, failover strategies, and disaster recovery planning and execution.

This role requires a deep understanding of IT infrastructure and the ability to collaborate across teams to ensure business continuity.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and implement resiliency strategies, including clusters, high availability, and failover solutions.
- Develop and execute disaster recovery plans and exercises to ensure organizational readiness.
- Partner with ITSM teams to monitor incidents and problems, participate in root cause analysis, and recommend improvements for resiliency and DR.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure DR considerations are integrated into multi-tier application designs.
- Research and stay current on emerging technologies and best practices for disaster recovery and resiliency.




- Contribute recommendations for continuous improvement based on DR exercise outcomes.

Required Qualifications

- Senior-level operational experience with Windows or Linux, and functional understanding of both.
- Strong expertise in resiliency design, including clusters, high availability, and failover.
- Proven experience in disaster recovery planning, exercise coordination, and execution.
- Solid understanding of IT infrastructure, including virtualization, databases, SAN/NAS storage, messaging, networking, and cloud environments.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with scripting and automation tools such as Ansible.
- Familiarity with ServiceNow and Jira for incident and problem management.
- Knowledge of multi-tier application design.
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

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📌 Disaster Recovery Architect: Build Resilient, High‑Availability IT (Toronto)
🏢 Compunnel
📍 Toronto