AWS Disaster Recovery Engineer @ San Jose, CA
Santhosh
AWS Disaster Recovery Engineer
Location: San Jose, CA (Onsite)
Type: Long Term Contract (C2C)
Experience: 8–10 Years
Role Summary
We are seeking an experienced AWS Engineer to manage our high-availability cloud infrastructure. You will lead AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) operations, build resilient failover/failback strategies, and optimize RPO/RTO.
Required Skills & Experience
AWS & DR: Deep expertise in EC2, VPC, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling, and AWS DRS (failover/failback).
Linux: Strong administration of RHEL/CentOS/Rocky/Ubuntu, including LVM, NFS, and Systemd.
Automation/IaC: Proficient in Bash/Shell and Ansible; experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.
Monitoring: Hands-on with CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, or Splunk.
Security: Experience with IAM and KMS policies.
Key Responsibilities
Configure and manage AWS DRS for automated failover and recovery testing.
Tune and troubleshoot Linux OS and AWS networking for performance.
Automate deployments using Shell scripting and Ansible.
Set up observability (CloudWatch/Grafana) and secure infrastructure (IAM/KMS).