he ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in disaster recovery (DR), business continuity, cybersecurity, and enterprise infrastructure architecture, with a primary focus on Microsoft Azure and secondary experience with AWS. This role requires the ability to lead technical assessments, develop actionable architecture strategies, and communicate complex technical risks and recommendations to senior leadership.
Lead disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity architecture initiatives, including solutions for mission-critical facilities such as 911 operations and backup sites.
Assess current disaster recovery capabilities, including Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), existing DR plans, infrastructure dependencies, and operational risks. Define target-state architectures with actionable recommendations.
Assess and document current-state enterprise IT architecture across on-premises data centers, Microsoft Azure, AWS, and hybrid-cloud environments.
Develop future-state enterprise architecture recommendations to improve infrastructure resiliency, cybersecurity, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency.
Conduct technical reviews of existing enterprise systems and produce comprehensive architecture documentation, including system topologies, data flow diagrams, network dependency matrices, and service catalogs.
Shape secure remote access and perimeter defense architecture in partnership with cybersecurity and network teams, focusing on security principles, capabilities, and architecture patterns.
Guide network segmentation initiatives and the retirement of legacy network overlays to strengthen security and improve infrastructure resiliency.
Partner with domain administrators to improve Active Directory and identity architecture, clarify service ownership, and define roles and responsibilities (RACI) for core services.
Evaluate enterprise storage, backup, recovery, archival, and data retention capabilities, including Rubrik, NetApp, and cloud storage platforms. Identify gaps and conduct proof-of-concepts to reduce cost and risk.
Assess existing observability and monitoring architecture, including AppDynamics, and collaborate with application, database, and infrastructure teams to improve issue detection, incident response, and recovery.
Lead technical discovery sessions and workshops across infrastructure, cloud, database, desktop, security, network, and agency teams to gather requirements and align on solutions.
Translate technical risks, architecture options, and business impacts into clear recommendations for the CIO, senior leadership, and agency stakeholders.
Build consensus across cross-functional teams and develop actionable implementation plans that support enterprise technology objectives.
