Generac · 1 day ago
Principal Disaster Recovery Architect
Waukesha, WI
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
10+ years expGenerac is a leading energy technology company committed to powering a smarter world. The Principal Disaster Recovery Architect is responsible for designing and improving enterprise backup and disaster recovery capabilities, ensuring the organization can effectively respond to and recover from disruptive events while maintaining critical operations and services.
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Responsibilities
Develop an enterprise disaster recovery strategy that is directly aligned to Business Impact Assessment outcomes including clear Recovery Time and Recovery Point Objectives and restoration priorities by business service
Standardize resiliency processes and capabilities across the global enterprise including plan templates, test methods, communications, and reporting. Drive for subsidiary and international business unit integration and governance
Create and maintain a strategic roadmap that increases trust in disaster recovery capabilities with milestones, maturity targets, service level objectives, and measurable risk reduction
Drive alignment of the disaster recovery program with the greater enterprise Business Continuity plan including roles and responsibilities, escalation paths, and joint exercises
Define and own the information system contingency planning life cycle including plan development, training, testing and exercises, and plan maintenance
Establish architecture standards for recovery solutions such as backup and restore, active-active, active-standby, regional failover, alternate processing sites, and data protection across on-premises and cloud
Ensure resilient design is integrated into system development life cycle gates, change control, and release planning
Set enterprise policies for backup frequency, retention, encryption, and separation of duties and verify execution through controls and continuous monitoring
Lead regular recovery testing for tier one and tier two services including technical failover, data recovery, application restoration, and end to end business validation
Maintain an enterprise recovery runbook library with service mapping, dependencies, contact trees, and recovery playbooks for critical scenarios
Coordinate disaster recovery communications plans including internal stakeholders, executives, customers, and suppliers. Ensure status reporting and post incident reviews drive improvements
Provide executive level reporting on resilience practices aligned to common frameworks and metrics
Qualification
Required
Bachelor degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Equivalent experience considered
Ten or more years in enterprise technology with deep experience in disaster recovery, business continuity, or service resilience
Align contingency planning and configuration controls to relevant standards and frameworks including NIST, CIS Controls, and ITIL. Translate control requirements into policies, technical standards, and automated checks
Partner with Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk, and Compliance to plan assessments, collect evidence, and close findings. Maintain an authoritative control narrative for disaster recovery and configuration management
Provide regular reporting to technology and business leadership on recovery readiness, configuration data health, control effectiveness, and program maturity
Mentor architects and engineers and provide guidance to application teams to embed resilient design and accurate configuration practices
Lead cross functional exercises and workshops to validate dependencies, recovery steps, and runbook accuracy
Manage vendor relationships for disaster recovery platforms and services. Influence product roadmaps through structured feedback
Preferred
Certified Business Continuity Professional
ISO 22301 Lead Implementer
ITIL 4 Foundation or higher
AWS Solutions Architect or Azure Solutions Architect
CISSP or CISM
Company
Generac
Generac is the total energy solutions company powering a smarter world.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (17)
2023 (14)
2022 (17)
2021 (7)
2020 (11)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$300MKey Investors
GRIP ProgramUS Department of Energy
2024-10-21Grant· $50M
2024-07-17Grant· $200M
2023-10-27Grant· $50M
Leadership Team
Anne Hoskins
SVP Policy and Market Development-- Energy Technology
Brad Witter
SVP Generac Energy Services
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