Principal AWS Resilience & Site Reliability Consultant

We're seeking a Principal AWS Resilience & Site Reliability Consultant to help shape and deliver cloud resilience, disaster recovery and service reliability capabilities across a large-scale multinational technology environment.

3-month contract initially

London (1 day per week)

Inside IR35

Working within a highly available AWS platform estate, you'll lead the design of recovery architectures, resilience frameworks and automated recovery capabilities, ensuring business-critical services remain secure, recoverable and available.This role combines AWS architecture, disaster recovery, operational resilience, platform engineering and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), making it ideal for a senior consultant who enjoys solving complex availability and recoverability challenges.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AWS-native backup, disaster recovery and resilience solutions
• Define and govern recovery strategies, RTOs and RPOs for critical services
• Lead adoption of AWS Backup, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS), AWS Resilience Hub and multi-region recovery patterns
• Develop backup & restore, pilot light, warm standby and active/active architectures
• Drive Terraform adoption and Infrastructure as Code standards
• Create automated recovery workflows, runbooks and operational playbooks
• Establish SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, observability and service reliability metrics
• Lead disaster recovery testing, failover exercises and resilience assurance activities
• Partner with engineering, architecture and leadership teams to improve platform recoverability and operational readiness
• Provide technical leadership and strategic guidance across resilience initiatives

Essential Skills

• Extensive AWS architecture and cloud platform experience
• AWS Backup and AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• AWS multi-account environments
• Cross-region resilience and recovery architectures
• Recovery testing, failover and failback planning
• Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles
• Automation and platform engineering experience
• Excellent stakeholder management and consultancy skills

Desirable

• AWS Resilience Hub
• Cyber recovery and ransomware resilience
• Observability tooling such as Grafana, Datadog, Splunk or Elastic
• Experience supporting large-scale consumer-facing digital platforms
• Gaming, media, entertainment, SaaS or cloud-native technology environments
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification

Ideal Background

• AWS Resilience Architect
• AWS Disaster Recovery Architect
• Principal AWS Consultant
• Cloud Platform Architect
• Site Reliability Architect
• AWS Infrastructure Architect
• Cloud Recovery & Resilience Consultant

This is an opportunity to play a key role in improving the resilience, recoverability and reliability of a globally distributed AWS platform supporting critical customer-facing services.

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