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Our client is an established, third-generation family business with more than 80 years of history in wholesale protein distribution across the Pacific Northwest. Known for rigorous food-safety standards and a customer-first culture.\nAs the DR Lead Engineer you will own a 16-week program to prove that a 24/7 US food distributor can keep running from its AWS recovery environment if its primary data center or its connectivity is lost. Production servers are already replicated to AWS with Zerto, but production has never been failed over and failed back. You will design and lead the recovery tests in stages, from isolated tests to a full production failover and failback. You will act as the client’s single point of contact for disaster recovery and hand over a documented, repeatable DR capability that the client’s IT team can run on its own.\nRequirements\nAWS (3+ years of hands-on production work)\nBringing replicated VMware machines up on EC2: instance sizing, drivers, boot problems and IP changes\nVPC design, including an isolated test network that can't reach production\nSite-to-site VPN between an on-premises firewall and AWS\nRoute 53: hosted zones, DNS cutover and failback, TTL planning\nIAM, with recovery credentials kept separate from production accounts\nAWS Directory Service, including AWS Managed Microsoft AD\nAmazon WorkSpaces for several hundred users: images, bundles, user profiles, capacity and moving users in waves\nCloudWatch, Systems Manager, and EBS and S3 snapshots\nReplication and backup\nHands-on Zerto with AWS as the recovery site: Virtual Protection Groups, test failovers, live failover, reverse protection and failback, and point-in-time recovery from the journal\nRubrik or a similar platform: restore validation and restores into an isolated environment\nWindows and identity\nActive Directory in a DR site: domain controllers, FSMO roles, avoiding USN rollback, AD-integrated DNS\nCertificates, Group Policy, file shares and service accounts\nHow SSO and MFA sign-in (for example Okta) behaves during a failover\nNetworking\nFirewall rules, NAT and public IP changes during failover\nInbound partner connections and IP allow-lists (EDI, remote access)\nMeasuring latency between users, AWS and on-premises databases\nAutomation and data\nTerraform or CloudFormation\nStrong PowerShell (the environment is mostly Windows), plus Python\nScripting SQL Server recovery steps: restores, log shipping, connection strings and SQL Agent jobs\nMonitoring and alerting for replication health\nWorking style, schedule and location\nHas run full production failovers and failbacks hands-on\nDocuments architecture and changes, and prepares every production change with rollback steps through the client's change control\nFluent English; works directly with the client's network engineer and DBA\nRemote and full time, from a time zone ahead of US Pacific, with at least 4 hours of overlap with Pacific business hours\nOn call for Friday-night and weekend test windows (Friday evening to about 5 a.m. Pacific)\nAvailable to work through late December, including the holidays\nTravel to Seattle only if the client asks for on-site failover weekends, agreed in advance\nWill be a plus\nAWS Advanced Networking, SysOps or Solutions Architect Professional certification; Zerto certification\nOmnissa Horizon (formerly VMware Horizon) VDI and FSLogix profiles\nEnough Azure to map the client's Azure-hosted services and any backups stored there\nEDI connectivity (AS2, SFTP)\nExperience in 24/7 operations\nResponsibilities\nDiscover: review Zerto replication coverage and health, Rubrik policies, AWS networking, DNS, identity and WorkSpaces images, and verify the network topology with automated discovery.\n Remediate: close replication gaps and right-size the recovery servers; build the AWS networking (Route 53 DNS cutover, security groups, VPN and inbound partner access); stand up identity in AWS, including an evaluation of AWS Managed Microsoft AD.\nDesktops and data: prepare Amazon WorkSpaces capacity, images and user profiles for several hundred users, and script the database recovery steps and the application settings that change in a failover.\nMonitoring and code: add monitoring and alerting for replication health, and capture the environment as infrastructure as code where it makes sense.\nTest: run isolated failovers, the load test and the ransomware recovery test, then the pilot, user waves, failover rehearsal and a sustained failover with failback. 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