• Evaluate and mature the organization’s disaster recovery posture, including recovery objectives (RTO/RPO), dependency mapping, and failure domain analysis across applications, data, and infrastructure. • Define, document, and establish disaster recovery standards and best practices across cloud infrastructure, platforms, and application architectures. • Partner with SRE, platform, security, and product engineering teams to design and implement resilient, fault-tolerant systems, progressing from backup-based recovery to multi-region and active-active architectures. • Lead the disaster recovery roadmap, balancing technical feasibility, cost, risk, and business priorities. • Design and recommend reference architectures for disaster recovery patterns, including pilot-light, warm standby, hot standby, and active-active. • Drive adoption of active-active disaster recovery for critical systems, including traffic management, data replication, consistency models, and automated failover. • Define and operationalize testing strategies for DR, including game days, chaos testing, and regular recovery exercises. • Establish clear documentation, runbooks, and escalation paths to ensure recoverability is well understood and not dependent on individuals. • Evaluate and recommend platform upgrades, cloud services, and tooling that improve resilience, recovery speed, and reliability. • Serve as a technical authority and advisor on disaster recovery and resilience for leadership and engineering teams. • Provide architectural guidance, design reviews, and mentorship to engineers implementing DR-related changes. • Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure DR strategies meet regulatory, audit, and data protection requirements.