Cloud Resiliency Architect

**Cloud Resiliency Architect (Azure Cloud Resilience & Disaster Recovery Specialist)**

**Salary Range**: Up to RM14,000 per month

**Location**: KL Sentral, Kuala Lumpur

**Mode**: 100% Work From Office (WFO)

**Company background**: MNC IT Services & IT Consulting

**Employment Type**: 12-month Renewable Contract (Project-Based)

**About the Role**

We are seeking a **Cloud Resiliency Architect** to help enterprises strengthen the reliability, continuity, and recoverability of their **Microsoft Azure** cloud environments.
You will engage directly with customers to assess current architectures, evaluate disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) strategies, and enhance **Major Incident Response Plans (MIRPs)** to ensure end-to-end operational resiliency.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Assess the resiliency posture of customer environments—technically and operationally.
- Evaluate and enhance **Disaster Recovery (DR)**, **Business Continuity (BC)**, and **Major Incident Response Plans (MIRPs)**.
- Perform deep-dive analysis on Azure infrastructure, workloads, failover readiness, and monitoring configurations.
- Identify single points of failure, recovery gaps, and operational vulnerabilities.
- Recommend improvements aligned with **Azure Well-Architected Framework**, **SRE principles**, and **ITIL best practices**.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align **RTO/RPO** targets, incident workflows, and escalation procedures.
- Produce clear, customer-facing technical documentation and maturity assessment reports.

**Required Qualifications**
- **5+ years** of hands-on experience in Azure cloud architecture, high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR) design.
- In-depth knowledge of **Azure infrastructure**, **Availability Zones**, **backup/recovery**, and **monitoring solutions**.
- Strong grasp of **cloud-native resiliency patterns** and **site reliability engineering (SRE)** methods.
- Proven track record designing or evaluating **MIRPs** and coordinating incident response.
- Experience in **business continuity planning**, **operational resilience**, and **process maturity assessment**.
- Excellent **communication, consulting, and documentation** skills for both technical and executive audiences.

**Preferred Skills**
- Experience leading enterprise-wide **BC/DR testing** or **resiliency programs**.
- Familiarity with compliance standards such as **ISO 22301**, **NIST SP 800-34**, or **SOC 2 Type II**.
- Experience supporting **regulated industries** (finance, healthcare, government).
- Hands-on knowledge of **Azure BCDR tools** - Azure Site Recovery, Backup Vaults, Azure Automation, Service Health Alerts.
- Exposure to **chaos engineering**, **resilience testing**, or **runbook automation** (e.g., Sentinel, ServiceNow).
- Working knowledge of **hybrid or multi-cloud** environments and related continuity implications.
- Understanding of **DevOps pipeline integration** for resiliency validation.

**Certifications**

**Required**:

- Microsoft Certified**:Azure Solutions Architect Expert**:

- Microsoft Certified**:Azure Administrator Associate**:

- **ITIL Foundation Certification**

**Preferred**:

- Microsoft Certified**:DevOps Engineer Expert**:

- **Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery certifications** (CBCP, MBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer)
- Microsoft Certified**:Cybersecurity Architect Expert**

**Why Join**
- Engage with top-tier enterprise environments.
- Lead strategic assessments and recovery planning initiatives.
- Be part of an impact-driven project ensuring continuity and resilience in cloud-driven operations.

Pay: RM11,000.00 - RM14,000.00 per month

**Benefits**:

- Opportunities for promotion
- Professional development

Application Question(s):

- Total years of work experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud architecture (infrastructure, Availability Zones, backup/recovery, monitoring)? [Preferably 5 years & above]
- Total years of hands-on experience with high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) design in Azure? [Preferably 4 years & above]
- Total years of work experience in cloud resiliency, continuity, and recoverability assessments? [Preferably 4 years & above]
- Familiarity with cloud-native resiliency patterns and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. Pls share your total years of experience [Preferably 3 years & above]
- Total years of work experience with designing and evaluating Major Incident Response Plans (MIRPs) [Preferably 3 years & above]
- Total years of work experience in Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) planning [Preferably 3 years & above]
- Total years of work experience and knowledge of Azure BCDR tools (Azure Site Recovery, Backup Vaults, Azure Automation, Service Health Alerts) [Preferably 2+ years [within Azure exp]
- Total years of work experience & knowledge of compliance frameworks (ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, SOC 2 Type II) [Preferably 2+ years exp]
- Total years of work experience in hybrid or multi-cloud resilienc