IT Continuity & Resilience Engineer Specialist in Backup & Disaster Recovery

Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private Limited
  • Huntington, NY
  • $110,000–$135,000 Per Year
  • Instant Apply
9 days ago

Job Description

Role summary
  • Ensure the stability, security, and resilience of company IT infrastructure across NY, OH, and CA sites.
  • Focus on backups, disaster recovery, business continuity, and high availability.
  • Work with infrastructure, security, and business teams to plan and optimize continuity strategies.
  • Solve problems quickly while building maintainable, scalable solutions.
  • Work independently toward goals and collaborate well under pressure.
Backup and disaster recovery
  • Build and manage backup solutions to protect data integrity and availability.
  • Lead and test disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
  • Perform regular DR testing and validate recovery objectives.
  • Maintain clear documentation for DR strategies, policies, and procedures.
  • Partner with security on data protection and compliance best practices.
Infrastructure management
  • Design, deploy, and maintain servers, storage, networking, and cloud systems.
  • Implement high-availability, failover, and load balancing for critical systems.
  • Monitor performance, capacity, and uptime to meet service levels.
  • Automate and optimize to improve reliability and efficiency.
  • Resolve issues quickly and prevent recurrence through root-cause actions.
Incident response and risk
  • Act as a primary responder for resilience incidents with minimal downtime.
  • Run post-incident reviews and strengthen prevention strategies.
  • Identify vulnerabilities and implement proactive risk mitigations.
  • Keep recovery procedures current, accurate, and accessible.
Security and compliance
  • Follow internal IT controls and required policy training.
  • Align with frameworks and regulations such as NIST and GxP.
  • Implement encryption and secure data storage solutions.
  • Partner with cybersecurity to address vulnerabilities and threats.
  • Stay current on evolving threats and resilience best practices.
Collaboration and improvement
  • Align continuity and infrastructure strategies with business objectives.
  • Track industry trends and emerging technologies to improve resilience.
  • Train IT teams on continuity and recovery best practices.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's in information systems or computer science preferred, or 5+ years of related experience.
  • 5+ years in IT infrastructure engineering and support.
  • Proven experience in disaster recovery planning, systems engineering, or business continuity.
  • Strong knowledge of backups, replication, and recovery tools.
  • Deep skills in networking, storage, virtualization, and high availability.
  • Experience with automation and orchestration for DR and failover.
  • Understanding of NIST, GxP, and cybersecurity best practices.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills.
  • Effective under pressure with strong problem-solving skills.
  • Experience in midsize enterprise environments.
  • Experience with Arcserve is a plus.

Numbers & Facts

LocationHuntington, NY
Salary$110,000–$135,000 Per Year

Skills

  • Automationunmatched
  • Best Practicesunmatched
  • BrightStor ARCserve Backupunmatched
  • Business Continuity Planning (BCP)unmatched
  • Business Planunmatched
  • Cloud Computingunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Computer Scienceunmatched
  • Computer Securityunmatched
  • Cryptographyunmatched
  • Data Qualityunmatched
  • Data Recoveryunmatched
  • Data Storageunmatched
  • Disaster Recoveryunmatched
  • Documentationunmatched
  • Emerging Technologyunmatched
  • Failoverunmatched
  • GxPunmatched
  • High Availabilityunmatched
  • Incident Managementunmatched
  • Industry/Trade Analysisunmatched
  • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
  • Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
  • Internet Securityunmatched
  • Load Balancingunmatched
  • Performance Analysisunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • Regulationsunmatched
  • Reliability Engineeringunmatched
  • Replication and Remote Mirroringunmatched
  • Risk Managementunmatched
  • Scalable System Developmentunmatched
  • Systems Engineeringunmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Testingunmatched
  • U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)unmatched
  • Virtualizationunmatched

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