Cloud & Database Disaster Recovery Consultant

Cloud & Database Disaster Recovery Consultant

Senior / Lead - Database Disaster Recovery - Onsite Role

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Duration: 6-12 Months+

Rate: Market $60-75/Hr

Key Responsibilities

• Perform end-to-end database assessments across environments
• Analyze business criticality and map applications to databases
• Define RTO and RPO requirements in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders
• Assess current backup, restore, replication, and DR mechanisms
• Identify gaps between current state vs target RTO/RPO
• Recommend DR architectures (active-active, active-passive, multi-region, replication)
• Validate backup strategies (full, incremental, log backups, snapshots)
• Support DR drills and restore testing
• Document assessment findings, risks, and recommendations
• Provide cost vs resilience trade-off analysis
• Work closely with Infrastructure, Application, Security, and Cloud teams
• RTO/RPO definition and validation.
• Backup, restore and disaster recovery strategy system
• Strong experience with enterprise databases such as - SQL server, PostgreSQL, MySQL.

DR Architectures and replication technologies

Cloud platforms: AWS, Google Cloud Platform & Azure

Cloud-Native backup and DR services

High Availability(HA) and fault-tolerant design

Infrastructure understandings (VM, storage, Networking)