Disaster Recovery Automation Engineer

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Job Summary

The Disaster Recovery Automation Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining automated disaster recovery (DR) solutions to ensure the resilience and recoverability of critical business applications.

Role Overview

The Disaster Recovery Automation Engineer plays a key role in strengthening organizational resilience by leveraging automation to streamline disaster recovery processes. This includes maintaining DR platforms, integrating applications into automated recovery workflows, and supporting resilience exercises and real recovery events. The role requires a blend of technical expertise, operational discipline, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Disaster Recovery Automation & Engineering
• Design, develop, and maintain automated disaster recovery workflows for enterprise applications.
• Build reusable automation frameworks to support recovery orchestration across multiple platforms (cloud, on-prem, hybrid).
• Integrate applications into DR tooling and ensure successful onboarding into automated recovery processes.
• Continuously improve automation capabilities to reduce recovery time objectives (RTO)
• Daily Health Checks & Operational Readiness
• Perform daily system health checks on DR tools and automation pipelines
• Monitor and validate the readiness of DR solutions, ensuring systems are always recovery-ready.
• Identify and resolve issues proactively to prevent failures during DR events.
• Maintain operational dashboards and reporting for DR readiness and automation performance.
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Manage the lifecycle of DR tools and platforms, including upgrades, patches, and decommissioning.
• Collaborate with vendors for product updates, support, and roadmap alignment.
• Evaluate new features and capabilities to enhance automation and resilience.
• Ensure compliance with organizational standards, security policies, and audit requirements.
• Application Onboarding & Workflow Development
• Build and maintain automation workflows for both existing and newly onboarded applications.
• Work with application owners to define recovery requirements and dependencies.
• Standardize onboarding processes to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Maintain documentation for workflows, configurations, and onboarding procedures.
• Support for Technology Resilience Activities
• Partner with Technology Resilience teams during disaster recovery testing and live recovery events.
• Provide technical support during DR drills, simulations, and audits.
• Assist in identifying gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities in recovery strategies.
• Contribute to post-incident reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Tooling & Automation Enablement
• Utilize DR automation tools to drive application recovery processes.
• Develop scripts, integrations, and APIs to enhance automation capabilities.
• Ensure proper configuration and optimization of tools used for DR orchestration.
• Train stakeholders on automation tools and processes where required.

Skills, Knowledge And Experienced Required

• Bachelors Degree or a National Diploma in IT
• 3 to 5 years scripting experience in Python, Bash or Shell
• Must have Disaster Recovery environment experience
• Must be able to present DR orchestration approach

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

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