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About the Role

SunCore Digital is seeking a hands-on Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Disaster Recovery) to assess, implement, test, and document service and data recovery capabilities. This is an engineering position focused on identifying recovery risks, building and hardening shared recovery capabilities, automating recovery processes, and proving critical systems and data can be restored.

Responsibilities

Inventory critical applications, services, databases, storage systems, queues, infrastructure, and external recovery dependencies.
Determine current backup status, including creation, retention, protection, and monitoring.
Identify systems with missing, incomplete, unverified, or person-dependent recovery processes.
Assess risks related to data loss, service loss, infrastructure failure, configuration loss, credential availability, and third-party dependencies.
Distinguish configured backups from proven recoverability.
Identify manual recovery procedures and undocumented knowledge.
Document confirmed capabilities, untested capabilities, and unknowns.
Design and implement backup improvements for critical data and configuration, then transfer ongoing operation to the designated long-term owner.
Translate approved recovery, retention, security, and access requirements into backup controls and monitoring.
Create, test, and harden restoration procedures with system owners, then transfer routine execution and system-specific maintenance to those teams.
Execute restoration tests using representative environments and data.
Validate backup completeness and integrity.
Measure recovery duration and potential data loss during exercises.
Establish monitoring and escalation for failed or incomplete backups.
Automate backup verification, restoration validation, recovery evidence collection, and other repeatable recovery processes, transferring routine operation to owning teams after testing and documentation.
Design and implement shared service-recovery and failover capabilities, transfer supporting shared components, and ensure system-owning teams retain responsibility for application-specific recovery behavior.
Identify infrastructure, application, database, network, access, and vendor dependencies required during recovery.
Establish safe recovery sequencing.
Develop procedures for partial outages, regional failures, infrastructure loss, data corruption, and service dependency failures.
Implement shared recovery mitigations and coordinate application-specific changes with system owners.
Test restored services for technical functionality.
Work with QA to validate critical business workflows and data remain correct after recovery.
Document conditions under which recovery, rollback, or failover may be unsafe.
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.
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 owning teams.
Repeat exercises after material changes.
Ensure procedures can be followed by qualified staff who did not author them.
Establish recovery runbook standards and create initial system-specific runbooks with 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 system-specific procedures.
Reduce reliance on undocumented individual knowledge.
Ensure application teams understand their ongoing recovery responsibilities.
Maintain shared recovery evidence and exercise results.
Work with Security Operations to review recovery implementations affecting 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 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.
Inventory existing backup and recovery capabilities.
Identify critical systems with no confirmed recovery path.
Verify ownership of 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.

Requirements

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.
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.

Skills

Disaster recovery
Infrastructure resilience
Backup and recovery engineering
SRE
Cloud infrastructure
Systems engineering
Backup implementation
Restore implementation
Recovery implementation
Failover implementation
Recovery exercises
Database recovery
Cloud infrastructure recovery
Application recovery
Configuration recovery
Storage system recovery
Recovery automation
Scripting
Recovery-time concepts
Recovery-point concepts
Recovery dependency documentation
Recovery dependency validation
Cloud security
Identity management during recovery
Secrets management during recovery
Networking during recovery
Access control during recovery
Troubleshooting complex system failures
Runbook creation
Technical documentation
Identifying unknowns
Establishing recovery practices
Platform preparation for external users
Disaster-recovery capability establishment
Data-intensive systems recovery
Financial systems recovery
Digital-asset systems recovery
Telemetry systems recovery
Operational systems recovery
Infrastructure as code
Controlled disaster-recovery exercises
Controlled resilience exercises
Event-driven systems recovery
Distributed systems recovery
Remote work
Asynchronous work

Location

Remote

Work Type

Fully remote
Async flexibility

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

Competitive, based on experience, portfolio strength, and geographic location.
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

Health, dental, and vision plans.
Annual Paid Offsite: Team retreats in Caribbean, Hawaii, ski destinations, and other exciting locations.

About the Company

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.