Windows System Engineer (Disaster Recovery)

Windows System Engineer (DR)

• Disaster Recovery (DR) Management

  
  

  • DR environments

  
  

  • failover and failback exercises

  
  

  • RTO (Recovery Time Objective)

  
  

  • DR drills

  
  
  
  



• System and Network Administration

  
  

  • Windows Server environments

  
  

  • network components

  
  
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    Collaborate with network teams to validate load balancing and failover mechanisms.

  
  
  
  



• Database and Application Checks

  
  

  • DB sanity checks

  
  
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    Coordinate with DBAs and application owners to validate system availability post-recovery.

  
  
  
  



• Load Balancer and Failover Operations

  
  

  • load balancers (F5, Citrix, HAProxy, or similar)

  
  
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    Validate load balancing rules, session persistence, and failover logic during DR scenarios.

  
  
  
  



• Monitoring and Incident Management

  
  

  • Splunk

  
  
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    Develop dashboards and alerts for proactive issue detection and resolution.

  
  
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    Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for system outages and DR failures.

  
  
  
  



• Documentation and Compliance

  
  
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    Maintain DR documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

  
  
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    Support audit and compliance activities by providing recovery metrics and validation reports.

  
  
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    Collaborate with IT Security and Compliance teams to ensure DR adherence to organizational standards.

  
  
  
  

• Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field




• 5 8 years




• Windows Server (2016/2019/2022)




• failover clustering, replication, and backup technologies




• RTO/RPO concepts




• networking fundamentals




• load balancer configuration




• Splunk




• PowerShell scripting



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  Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and documentation skills