Senior Disaster Recovery Technical Architect (Hybrid)

Bratislava, Bratislavský kraj
Trvalý pracovný pomer
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Pred 21 dňami

Are you passionate about building resilient systems that can withstand the unexpected? Join us as a Disaster Recovery Technical Architect where you'll be the cornerstone of our recovery strategy across multiple cloud environments. This is your opportunity to transform theoretical recovery plans into engineered reality, ensuring business continuity when it matters most.About the RoleAs our Disaster Recovery Technical Architect, you'll be the technical authority ensuring recovery designs are realistic, testable, and aligned with declared RTO/RPO commitments. This isn't just about documentation - it's about engineering genuine recoverability across our complex technology landscape. You'll translate disaster recovery from theoretical plans into practical, executable solutions.Key Responsibilities:

Define and evolve technical guardrails for backup and recovery design across cloud, onpremises, and SaaS environments
Challenge unrealistic assumptions and validate the feasibility of recovery time and point objectives
Review and approve recovery architectures for business-critical services, identifying hidden dependencies and systemic bottlenecks
Assess backup coverage completeness at resource level and validate retention, encryption, and immutability configurations
Detect recurring design weaknesses across domains and translate audit findings into structural improvements
Define technical quality criteria for DR test success, ensuring tests validate full data scope and real failover conditions
Support large-data restore strategies for scenarios involving massive storage requirements
Design data-driven validation approaches and build lightweight automation to detect backup and recovery gaps
Act as senior technical counterpart to cloud platform teams and architects, driving improvements in recovery design patterns

About the TeamThe IT Resilience Process & Governance team advances IT Resilience and Disaster Recovery governance across the organization. Operating in a complex, federated IT environment, we collaborate with service owners, engineering, and risk stakeholders to ensure recovery capabilities are documented, tested, measurable, and aligned with business and regulatory requirements.About YouYou're a technical expert who thrives on solving complex recovery challenges. You combine deep technical knowledge with excellent communication skills, allowing you to influence and guide senior stakeholders. You're methodical in your approach to validating recovery solutions and have a talent for identifying potential failure points before they become problems.We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

Strong cloud architecture background with mandatory Azure experience (multi-cloud experience is a plus)
Hands-on experience with disaster recovery design and various backup technologies
Proven ability to assess RTO/RPO feasibility and translate requirements into technical solutions
Strong analytical and systems thinking capability with attention to detail
Ability to constructively challenge senior engineers and influence technical decisions

These are additional nice to haves:

Experience reviewing SaaS resilience and evaluating vendor recovery claims
Experience building automation or scripting for validation purposes
Knowledge of resilience engineering concepts and practices
Experience working in regulated industries with strict recovery requirements
Background in large-scale data management and recovery scenarios

For Slovakia, the base salary range for this position is between 3,800€ and 6,300€ for a full-time role.The specific salary offered considers:

the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role
the applicant's own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience

Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per weekAbout Swiss ReSwiss Re is one of the world's leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.Keywords:
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