Description
Role Summary:
The Enterprise DR Architect is responsible for designing, implementing, testing, and managing Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity solutions to ensure critical business services can be recovered within agreed Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
Responsibilities
1. Nutanix DR Architecture
The Architect shall perform the following activities aligned to the proposed DR solution and Client’s current set up:
· Validate DR design documentation provided by third-party implementation partner. Where needed create appropriate documentation as needed to implement and support the DR.
· Lead infrastructure recovery requirements.
· Propose recovery strategies against defined RTO and RPO objectives.
· Propose workload classification and grouping methodology
· Design disaster recovery sequencing and dependency mapping for infra and network layer. Provide guidance to the applications team wrt managing the sequencing and dependency mapping.
· Work with THIRD PARTY SUPPLIER to ensure that DR failover and failback approaches suits Client’s needs
· Prepare and produce appropriate DR runbooks, operational procedures and recovery documentation. Provide guidance and support the applications team to enable them crate runbooks, operational procedures and recovery documentation
· Provide risk-based recommendations and improvement opportunities.
· Define & produce relevant operational artefacts (e.g. a DR Operations Playbook) that cover end-to-end DR operational processes. Some of these processes include, but are not limited to - DR scenarios, DR triggers and its SOPs, Failover processes, Failback processes, frequent DR testing, end-to-end governance & monitoring.
2. Technical Design (Nutanix DR Set-up)
The Architect shall:
· Produce High-Level Designs (HLD) & Low-Level Designs (LLD) for implementations needed in Client’s workplace.
· Validate High-Level Designs (HLD) & Low-Level Designs (LLD) provided by third-party imple