Job Title: Resiliency & Continuity Specialist (Cloud Technology Resilience)

Experience: 6+ Years

Location: Hyderabad

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Resiliency & Continuity Specialist to join our Enterprise Technology Resilience team. In this role, you will serve as a subject matter expert responsible for planning, coordinating, governing, and validating cloud resilience exercises to ensure enterprise applications and platforms are recoverable, highly available, and compliant with organizational resilience standards.

You will partner with Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure, Cloud, Risk, and Governance teams to ensure cloud-hosted systems are resilient through comprehensive System Recovery Plans (SRPs), Disaster Recovery (DR) testing, Chaos Engineering exercises, audit-ready documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

The ideal candidate should have strong knowledge of cloud resilience, disaster recovery, operational resilience, cloud architecture, governance, and technology risk management in enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Technology Resilience

Lead and coordinate enterprise cloud resilience initiatives across critical applications and infrastructure.

Plan, execute, and govern in-region and cross-region cloud resilience exercises.

Validate that applications meet Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).

Ensure cloud-hosted systems are resilient, recoverable, and aligned with enterprise resilience standards.

Collaborate with Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud Operations, and SRE teams to strengthen platform resilience.

Resilience Exercise Planning & Execution

Coordinate end-to-end resilience testing activities for cloud applications.

Prepare resilience test plans, execution schedules, roles, dependencies, and success criteria.

Validate readiness before resilience testing begins.

Support execution of

Disaster Recovery (DR) Testing

Chaos Engineering Exercises

Regional Failover Testing

Cross-Region Recovery Testing

Backup & Restore Validation

Business Continuity Exercises

Ensure testing is executed according to enterprise governance standards.

System Recovery Plan (SRP) Governance

Review and validate System Recovery Plans (SRPs) for completeness and operational readiness.

Verify recovery procedures, ownership, sequencing, dependencies, and execution timelines.

Ensure SRPs follow approved enterprise templates and governance standards.

Identify gaps and drive remediation with application owners.

Maintain version control and governance for recovery documentation.

Evidence Validation & Audit Readiness

Review resilience exercise evidence packages to ensure:

End-to-end documentation

Timestamped execution evidence

Recovery metrics

Pass/Fail criteria

Recovery duration

Validation of business objectives

Ensure evidence aligns with enterprise audit requirements.





Maintain audit-ready documentation supporting compliance and regulatory reviews.

Identify missing artifacts and enforce quality standards.

Operational Resilience & Disaster Recovery

Support enterprise Disaster Recovery (DR) planning and execution.

Validate backup and restore procedures.

Assess application recoverability and business continuity readiness.

Ensure recovery capabilities align with organizational resilience objectives.

Support annual and quarterly resilience testing cycles.

Chaos Engineering

Support design and execution of Chaos Engineering scenarios.

Validate resilience against

Infrastructure failures

Network failures

Service outages

Cloud region failures

Dependency failures

Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system fault tolerance.

Recommend improvements based on resilience testing outcomes.

Cloud Architecture & Availability

Evaluate cloud architectures to ensure high availability and resilience.

Review application deployment models for resilience best practices.

Validate

Multi-Availability Zone deployments

Cross-region replication

Load balancing

Auto Scaling

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Backup strategies

Service dependencies

Recommend architectural improvements to reduce outage risks.

Monitoring & Observability

Support implementation of monitoring and observability standards.

Review dashboards and monitoring configurations.

Validate application health metrics and recovery indicators.

Collaborate with SRE teams to improve operational visibility.

Support incident analysis and post-incident reviews.

Governance & Risk Management

Ensure technology resilience activities comply with enterprise governance policies.

Support technology risk assessments related to resilience.

Collaborate with Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) teams.

Maintain resilience assessment workbooks and governance documentation.

Track remediation activities until closure.

Stakeholder Collaboration

Partner with

Cloud Engineering Teams

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Infrastructure Teams

Enterprise Architecture

Risk & Compliance

Application Development Teams

Business Continuity Teams

Security Teams

Provide guidance on resilience standards and recovery readiness.

Facilitate resilience planning workshops and technical discussions.

Reporting & Continuous Improvement

Prepare resilience dashboards and executive reports.

Analyze resilience metrics and trends.

Identify opportunities to improve recovery capabilities.





Enhance resilience templates, standards, and governance processes.

Drive continuous improvement initiatives across enterprise resilience programs.

Required Qualifications

Experience

6+ years of experience in Technology Resilience, Disaster Recovery, Operational Resilience, SRE, Infrastructure Operations, Technology Risk, or IT Governance.

Experience coordinating enterprise Disaster Recovery and resilience testing exercises.

Experience working in large-scale cloud environments.

Experience creating audit-ready technical documentation.

Technical Skills

Technology Resilience

Operational Resilience

Disaster Recovery Planning

Business Continuity

System Recovery Planning (SRP)

Recovery Readiness

Resilience Governance

Cloud Platforms

Hands-on knowledge of:

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Strong understanding of

Regions & Availability Zones

High Availability

Multi-Region Architecture

Backup & Recovery

Auto Scaling

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud Networking

Chaos Engineering

Knowledge of

Chaos Testing

Fault Injection

Failure Simulation

Resilience Validation

Recovery Testing

Infrastructure & Operations

Experience with

Load Balancing

Backup & Restore

Replication

Disaster Recovery Architecture

Infrastructure Automation

Observability & Monitoring

Experience with

Monitoring Tools

Logging

Metrics

Dashboards

Alerting

Incident Management

Observability Platforms

Governance Tools

Experience working with

ServiceNow

GRC Platforms

Harness

Risk Management Tools

Reporting Tools

Knowledge of

Microsoft Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Crystal Reports

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Visio

Documentation

Experience preparing

Recovery Plans

Audit Documentation

Test Evidence

Architecture Diagrams

Operational Procedures

Governance Documentation

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, or other highly regulated industries.

Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.

Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD environments.

Experience working with cloud-native architectures and Kubernetes.

Knowledge of ITIL and enterprise governance frameworks.

Certifications

Preferred certifications include

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner / Solutions Architect

Microsoft Azure Certifications

Google Cloud Certifications

CBCP (Certified Business Continuity Skilled)

Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) Certification

Project Management Certification (PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent)

ITIL Foundation (Preferred)

Soft Skills

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Excellent documentation and organizational skills.

Ability to coordinate cross-functional technical teams.

Strong attention to detail and governance.

Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.

📌 Resiliency & Continuity Specialist (Cloud Technology Resilience) (Hyderabad)
🏢 IntraEdge
📍 Hyderabad