Senior IT Disaster Recovery (DR) Orchestration Specialist

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Disaster Recovery (DR) Orchestration Specialist with deep hands-on expertise in Perpetuuiti Continuity Patrol™. In this role, you will lead the design, implementation, automation, and ongoing management of our IT Resilience and Business Continuity framewor...

The Role
We are seeking an experienced Disaster Recovery (DR) Orchestration Specialist with deep hands-on expertise in Perpetuuiti Continuity Patrol™. In this role, you will lead the design, implementation, automation, and ongoing management of our IT Resilience and Business Continuity framework. You will be responsible for orchestrating complex, end-to-end multi-platform failover and failback workflows across heterogeneous IT environments (on-premises, cloud, hybrid, databases, OS, and storage layers) while maintaining aggressive Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO). KEY RESPONSIBILITIES DR Orchestration & Administration: Design, build, configure, and maintain automated recovery workflows using Perpetuuiti Continuity Patrol™ across diverse environments (Virtual, Physical, AIX/Unix, OS, and DB layers). Automation & Scriptless Integration: Utilize Continuity Patrol’s out-of-the-box (OOTB) library actions and agentless architecture to automate sequence-dependent recovery processes, switchovers, switchbacks, and failovers. DR Drill & Testing Management: Plan and execute non-disruptive, single-click DR drills and switchover tests. Provide detailed automated drill compliance and audit reports for leadership. Live Impact Analysis & Visibility: Configure and leverage CXO Dashboards, real-time RTO/RPO monitoring, and automated Business & Financial Impact Analysis (BIA/FIA) modules. Application Dependency Mapping: Manage application-to-infrastructure dependency mapping within the platform to ensure proper recovery sequencing. Storage & Replication Synergy: Coordinate with Storage, Virtualization, Database, and Cloud teams to integrate underlying replication technologies (e.g., SAN replication, DB native replication, VMware SRM, cloud backup) into Continuity Patrol workflows. Incident Response & Continuous Improvement: Serve as a primary technical SME during actual unplanned disaster events or DC outages to execute recovery plans. Conduct post-incident analyses and continually optimize recovery workflows.

Requirements
Must-Have Experience: Tool Expertise: 3+ years of direct, hands-on administration, workflow configuration, and troubleshooting experience with Perpetuuiti Continuity Patrol™. DR & BC Experience: 5+ years in Enterprise IT Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) architecture. Platform Diversity: Solid hands-on background managing DR across heterogeneous environments: OS: Windows Server, Linux (RHEL/CentOS), AIX/Unix. Databases: Oracle (Data Guard), MS SQL Server (AlwaysOn), PostgreSQL, SAP, etc. Virtualization & Cloud: VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure, or GCP. Network & Security Orchestration: Sound understanding of DNS, NAT, IP remapping, and firewall automation during DR failovers. Desired Skills & Knowledge: Familiarity with Gartner IT Resilience Orchestration (ITRO) frameworks and ISO 22301 standards.

About the company
Saudi Networkers Services, incorporated in 2001 with an aim to provide the world class business and consulting services through a combination of market insight, technical excellence and unrivalled agile methodology. Our success stems from building strong relationships and trusted partners, which enabled us delivering exceptional services to public sector, as well as some worlds leading organizations, in Telecommunication, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Banking, Energy, Utilities and various other industry arenas. We collaborate closely, ideate that how the work gets done, while working alongside businesses to collaborate on growth and applying breakthrough innovations, that drive exponential impact, managed by teams specialized in their assigned industry sectors.