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The Infrastructure Disaster Recovery Technical Lead is responsible for the design, implementation, and operational excellence of enterprise infrastructure systems with a strong emphasis on Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity, and Azure Cloud platforms. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on delivering resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructure across hybrid environments, including both Azure cloud and on-premise datacenters. Bright Horizons is a leading education and care company that helps employees thrive at work and at home by partnering with employers to offer high-quality child care , elder care, and educational support. Our workplace reflects this commitment-with collaborative environments, meaningful benefits, and a culture that supports both career growth and personal well-being. W hether you're caring for children or powering the systems and partnerships that make it all possible , a t Bright Horizons, you're the difference . This is a hybrid role and requires onsite work in our Newton, MA or our Westminster, CO office. Essential Functions/Responsibilities Technical Leadership Lead architecture, design, and deployment of Azure-based and on-premise infrastructure solutions, including IaaS, PaaS, and hybrid environments. Serve as a senior technical authority for infrastructure resiliency, availability, and recovery strategies. Define and enforce RTO/RPO objectives across critical systems and applications. Drive adoption of Azure-native resiliency services (e.g., Azure Site Recovery, Backup, Availability Zones). Disaster Recovery & Resiliency Design, implement, and maintain end-to-end Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions across cloud and on-premise platforms. Ensure alignment of DR strategies across Azure workloads and on-premise infrastructure (VMware, physical servers, storage systems). Lead DR testing, failover/failback exercises, and simulation scenarios. Ensure compliance with internal controls, audit requirements, and regulatory standards. Identify infrastructure risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure business continuit Operations & Hybrid Infrastructure Oversee and optimize day-to-day infrastructure operations across both cloud and on-premise environments. Maintain high availability of compute platforms (VMs, containers, physical servers) and storage systems (SAN/NAS, Azure Storage). Drive standardization and modernization of on-premise environments into hybrid cloud models. Ensure proactive monitoring, alerting, and incident response for all critical platforms. Automation & Engineering Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation using tools such as Ansible and Terraform (optional). Develop automated solutions for infrastructure provisioning, patch management, and DR failover orchestration. Promote engineering best practices, including configuration management and version control. Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Technology or related field 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud operations, or platform engineering Experience across both Azure cloud and on-premise infrastructure environments. Experience with high availability architectures, backup and recovery strategies, and hybrid infrastructure design.
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