SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER, DR LEAD

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer, DR Lead (AWS) for a full-time position (40 hours per week) on a short-term basis (16 weeks) in Mexico,Colombia, Costa Rica. Our client is an established, third-generation family business with more than 80 years of history in wholesale protein distribution across the Pacific Northwest. Known for rigorous food-safety standards and a customer-first culture.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure or DevOps, including at least two DR programs taken through real failover and failback testing.
• Hands-on experience with AWS: EC2, VPC, site-to-site VPN, Route 53, IAM, WorkSpaces, Directory Service, CloudWatch, Systems Manager, and EBS and S3 snapshots.
• Experience with VMware environments replicated to AWS using block-level replication (Zerto preferred).
• Experience with backup and restore platforms such as Rubrik, including ransomware recovery scenarios.
• Experience with Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, certificates, and file shares.
• Experience with SQL Server recovery, including log shipping for reporting and a data warehouse.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or CloudFormation; scripting in PowerShell and Python.
• Calm, structured leadership during high-pressure production windows.
• Excellent written and spoken English; ability to run go/no-go meetings and present to executives.
• Strong ownership and the ability to act as the client’s single point of contact for DR.
• Clear documentation habits; ability to write runbooks that others can follow.
• Availability for weekend test windows and willingness to work through the December holidays.

Will be a plus

• AWS Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer certification
• Microsoft Dynamics GP
• EDI (SPS Commerce)
• Warehouse management systems
• Ability to travel to the US for the failover weekend

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery: inventory servers, applications, data flows, nightly jobs, EDI endpoints, partner IP allow-lists, and hard-coded dependencies.
• Deliver the DR assessment, gap register, and DR test plan, including acceptance, go/no-go, and rollback criteria, by week 3.
• Facilitate recovery-target workshops and obtain business-approved RTO/RPO for every application tier.
• Lead isolated tier failovers, a normal-day load test, and a ransomware clean-recovery test from Rubrik backups.
• Lead staged production tests: pilot user group, user waves, failover rehearsal, and a sustained failover with failback.
• Run the Thursday go/no-go meetings and recommend go or no-go for every production window.
• Own the runbooks, the remediation backlog, and the weekly status report to the client’s IT director.
• Prepare every production change, rollback plan, and user communication for the client’s change control.
• Hand over the DR plan, RACI, and test calendar; train the IT team; run a tabletop exercise; and deliver the executive readout.

WE OFFER

• US and EU projects based on advanced technologies.
• Competitive compensation based on skills and experience.
• Regular performance appraisals to support your growth.
• Comprehensive private medical insurance.
• Christmas Bonus in the amount of 50% of the monthly payment.
• Bonuses for recommendations of new employees.
• Bonuses for article writing, public talks, other activities.
• 15 vacation days, 10 holidays, 10 sick leaves.
• Personalized learning program tailored to your interests and skill development.
• Free tech webinars and meetups organized by Svitla.
• Fun corporate online\\offline celebrations and activities.
• Well-established remote culture.
• Awesome team, friendly and supportive community