Recovery objectives and planning

• Work with engineering and business leadership to document recovery requirements for critical systems.
• Translate approved business requirements into technical recovery capabilities.
• Measure actual recovery performance against defined expectations.
• Identify where current architecture cannot meet required recovery expectations.
• Provide technical options and evidence to support leadership decisions.
• Maintain a recovery dependency map for critical systems.

Final recovery priorities, risk acceptance, and business requirements remain with leadership.

Disaster-recovery exercises

• Plan and execute recovery exercises.
• Develop test scenarios for service, infrastructure, data, credential, and dependency failures.
• Ensure exercises produce objective evidence.
• Record results, defects, recovery times, data-loss observations, and unresolved risks.
• Implement shared recovery corrective actions and coordinate system-specific corrective work with the owning teams.
• Repeat exercises after material changes.
• Ensure procedures can be followed by qualified staff who did not author them.

Documentation and knowledge transfer

• Establish recovery runbook standards and create initial system-specific runbooks with the owning teams.
• Document required access, tools, credentials, dependencies, procedures, validation steps, and escalation paths.
• Clearly label untested procedures.
• Train system owners and relevant operational staff to execute and maintain the system-specific procedures they own.
• Reduce reliance on undocumented individual knowledge.
• Ensure application teams understand their ongoing recovery responsibilities.
• Maintain shared recovery evidence and exercise results; system owners maintain the accuracy of their service-specific runbooks.

Security and collaboration

• Work with Security Operations to review recovery implementations that affect production access, sensitive data, credentials, networks, infrastructure, or security controls.
• Work with SRE on service dependencies, failure behavior, observability, and operational response.
• Define recovery requirements for infrastructure-as-code, environment recreation, artifacts, and delivery tooling; work with DevOps and platform staff to implement those requirements within their shared capabilities.
• Work with application engineers on application-specific recovery changes.
• Work with QA on post-recovery functional and data validation.
• Escalate recovery risks that cannot be mitigated within current architecture or resources.

Initial Priorities

• Inventory existing backup and recovery capabilities.
• Identify critical systems with no confirmed recovery path.
• Verify who owns each backup and recovery process.
• Determine when critical backups were last restored successfully.
• Establish repeatable restore testing.
• Document initial recovery requirements and dependencies.
• Implement the highest-priority recovery mitigations.
• Create and test recovery runbooks.
• Identify person-dependent and manual recovery processes.
• Produce a factual recovery-readiness assessment before broader external use.

Required Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in disaster recovery, infrastructure resilience, backup and recovery engineering, SRE, cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, or a related technical field.
• Hands-on experience implementing backup, restore, recovery, and failover capabilities.
• Experience performing recovery exercises rather than only writing recovery plans.
• Experience recovering databases, cloud infrastructure, applications, configurations, and storage systems.
• Experience with recovery automation and scripting.
• Understanding of recovery-time and recovery-point concepts.
• Experience documenting and validating recovery dependencies.
• Familiarity with cloud security, identity, secrets, networking, and access requirements during recovery.
• Experience troubleshooting complex system failures.
• Ability to work with application developers on recovery-related code and data changes.
• Strong runbook and technical-documentation skills.
• Ability to identify unknowns and avoid treating untested procedures as proven.
• Comfort working in a small organization where recovery practices are still being established.

Bonus Points

• Experience preparing a platform for its first external users.
• Experience establishing a disaster-recovery capability from an early stage.
• Experience with data-intensive, financial, digital-asset, telemetry, or operational systems.
• Experience with infrastructure as code.
• Experience with controlled disaster-recovery or resilience exercises.
• Experience recovering event-driven or distributed systems.
• Experience in a remote, asynchronous environment.

What Success Looks Like

• Critical systems and data have documented recovery requirements.
• Backup ownership, schedules, retention, and locations are known.
• Critical backups have been restored successfully.
• Recovery procedures are documented, tested, and repeatable.
• Actual recovery times and data-loss exposure are measured.
• Systems without viable recovery paths are visible to leadership.
• High-priority recovery mitigations are implemented.
• System-owning teams understand and can maintain their recovery procedures.
• Recovery capability does not depend entirely on one individual.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Compensation: Competitive, based on experience, portfolio strength, and geographic location.
• Milestone Bonuses: 10% milestone bonus awarded to every team member assisting with the MVP build-out.
• Annual Performance Bonus: Represents a significant percentage of total compensation.
• Benefits for Domestic Hires: Health, dental, and vision plans.
• Annual Paid Offsite: Team retreats in Caribbean, Hawaii, ski destinations, and other exciting locations.

Why Join SunCore Digital?

• High-impact role in a rapidly scaling digital company.
• Fully remote team with async flexibility.
• Direct collaboration with executive leadership and best-in-class marketing/design partners.
• Opportunity to shape Security processes and mentor junior team members.
• Competitive compensation with performance upside.