Senior Enterprise Application Engineer - Disaster Recovery & Resiliency

Sr. Application Engineers

Company Description

Sutherland is an experience-led digital transformation company. Our mission is to deliver exceptionally engineered experiences for customers and employees today, that continue to delight tomorrow. For over 37 years, we have cared for our clients' customers, delivering measurable results and accelerating growth.

Job Description

Experience : 6–10 years

Role Summary

We are looking for a hands-on Enterprise Application Engineer with deep focus on Disaster Recovery (DR) and application resiliency for mission-critical enterprise applications. The role is responsible for designing, building, testing, and operating DR solutions across on-prem data centers and multi-cloud environments, ensuring applications consistently meet RTO/RPO, availability, and business continuity requirements.

Key Responsibilities

· Own end-to-end application DR architecture and execution for enterprise workloads.

· Design and implement application-level DR solutions across DC and multi-cloud platforms.

· Define, validate, and govern RTO/RPO targets in alignment with business requirements.

· Perform hands-on DR build activities, including configuration of replication, recovery workflows, and dependency mapping.

· Lead DR drills, failover, and failback exercises, ensuring successful recovery and documenting outcomes.

· Support and administer ERP and enterprise applications such as Oracle EBS and PeopleSoft in DR scenarios.

· Provide deep technical support for middleware platforms, with strong focus on IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS).

· Troubleshoot and resolve DR-related issues across application, middleware, database, and infrastructure layers.

· Work closely with infrastructure, cloud, storage, network, and security teams to ensure DR readiness.

· Support application DR builds and migrations across regions, sites, and cloud environments.

· Participate in customer technical discussions to explain DR architecture, recovery approach, and test results.

· Maintain DR runbooks, recovery procedures, and architecture documentation.

Qualifications

Required Skills

· Strong hands-on experience in enterprise application DR and resiliency.

· Proven experience with Oracle EBS and PeopleSoft in DR environments.

· Deep technical expertise in IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) (mandatory) and Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS).

· Hands-on experience with Java, .NET, and mobile application stacks in recovery scenarios.

· Strong understanding of application dependency mapping, recovery sequencing, and validation.

· Experience defining and delivering against RTO/RPO commitments.

· Practical exposure to on-prem data centers and multi-cloud DR architectures.

· Ability to lead and execute complex recovery operations under pressure.

· Strong documentation and stakeholder communication skills.

Preferred Skills

· Experience with cloud-based DR solutions (AWS / Azure / OCI).

· Exposure to cross-region and multi-site recovery designs.

· Knowledge of load balancing, clustering, and HA configurations for DR.

· Familiarity with backup, replication, and orchestration tools.

· Experience in enterprise DR audits and compliance exercises.

· Relevant application, middleware, or cloud certifications (preferred).

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Experience Level

Senior Level