Sr. Engineer, Operations System (Disaster Recovery Engineer)

Company: DaVita Inc.
Location: Denver
Posted on: May 7, 2025

Job Description:

2000 16th Street, Denver, Colorado, 80202, United States of AmericaJob Description:Position OverviewDaVita IT Operations is seeking an experienced and innovative Continuity Engineer - Infrastructure to enhance our IT resilience and operational readiness. This role is critical in ensuring that our infrastructure aligns with best practices in continuity and cyber resiliency. The Continuity Engineer will design, implement, and maintain advanced infrastructure solutions with a focus on fault domain isolation, multi-region reliability, cloud tiering, and elastic compute capabilities to support seamless business continuity.Key Responsibilities

• Resilience Design and Fault Domain Best Practices

• Architect and implement infrastructure solutions using fault domain best practices, ensuring redundancy across multiple fault zones, including:
• Two storage arrays to support diverse and resilient storage configurations.
• Two compute platforms designed for Multi-AZ, Multi-Region, and Multi-Cluster (blue-green/A & B) strategies.
• Design cloud tier storage and backup solutions, including off-premise options and tiering to AWS AZs (e.g., S3 targets).
• Infrastructure Monitoring and Maintenance
  • Deploy and maintain advanced monitoring solutions within protected zones, ensuring seamless management functionality.
  • Implement auto-healing elastic compute strategies to maintain high levels of maturity in fault tolerance and recovery.
  • Regularly test failover and recovery processes, with comprehensive quarterly testing and documentation for continuous improvement.
  • Incident Management and Recovery
    • Develop and maintain playbooks for critical applications that operate across multi-data center and multi-region deployments.
    • Act as the lead engineer during infrastructure recovery scenarios, ensuring quick and efficient resolution.
    • Document lessons learned post-incident to refine failover and recovery plans.
    • Cross-Functional Collaboration
      • Partner with IT Security to ensure continuity strategies align with zero-trust principles while optimizing processes such as port request approvals.
      • Collaborate with cloud engineering teams to integrate resilient cloud tier storage and backup solutions into hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
      • Work closely with other IT Operations teams to align infrastructure strategies with organizational resilience objectives.
      • Optimization and Automation
        • Drive automation initiatives to support elastic compute/auto-healing capabilities, enabling dynamic scaling and resource optimization.
        • Continuously evaluate new technologies and practices to enhance multi-region, multi-cluster, and hybrid infrastructure resilience.
        • Support cost-effective tiering strategies for storage and compute resources, leveraging cloud-native tools for efficiency.
        • Documentation and Testing
          • Maintain detailed and up-to-date documentation of infrastructure configurations, including fault domain architecture and backup tiering strategies.
          • Facilitate and oversee failover and recovery testing, ensuring that systems and teams are prepared for operational disruptions.
          • Provide training and guidelines for stakeholders on managing critical application continuity across regions and data centers.QualificationsEducation:
            • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.Experience:
              • 7+ years in infrastructure engineering with a focus on business continuity, disaster recovery, or cyber resiliency.
              • Proven experience with Multi-AZ, Multi-Region, and Multi-Cluster architectures.
              • Expertise in designing and managing cloud tier storage and backup solutions for off-premises and multi-cloud environments.Technical Skills:
                • Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), including tiering and backup solutions.
                • Deep knowledge of fault domain isolation and strategies for distributed systems.
                • Familiarity with elastic compute platforms and tools for auto-healing and dynamic scaling.
                • Experience with management GUIs and monitoring tools in protected zones.Soft Skills:
                  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to anticipate and mitigate risks.
                  • Effective communication and collaboration skills for cross-functional teams.
                  • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.Preferred Certifications
                    • Google Professional Cloud Architect or other relevant cloud certifications.
                    • Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) or equivalent.
                    • ITIL Foundation Certification.Here is what you can expect when you join our Village:
                      • A "community first, company second" culture based on Core Values that really matter.
                      • Clinical outcomes consistently ranked above the national average.
                      • Award-winning education and training across multiple career paths to help you reach your potential.
                      • Performance-based rewards based on stellar individual and team contributions.
                      • A comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance your health, your financial well-being and your future.
                      • Dedication, above all, to caring for patients suffering from chronic kidney failure across the nation.About Information TechnologyThe Information Technology Department designs, develops and maintains software programs required to keep DaVita on the leading edge of medical technology. DaVita's Information Technology Department has both clinic facing and non-clinic facing subgroups that provide our clinician teammates the tools to provide quality patient care. DaVita IT utilizes designers, developers, system architects, project managers, application architects, nurses, trainers and many more professionals to incorporate the technology needs of our clinicians, business and physician customers.Join us as we pursue our vision "To Build the Greatest Healthcare Community the World has Ever Seen."Why wait? Explore a career with DaVita today.Go to to learn more or apply.What We'll Provide:More than just pay, our DaVita Rewards package connects teammates to what matters most. Teammates are eligible to begin receiving benefits on the first day of the month following or coinciding with one month of continuous employment. Below are some of our benefit offerings.
                        • Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out
                        • Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access to Headspace, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more
                          • Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita's online training platform StarLearning.At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second. We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong." Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. As such, individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.This position will be open for a minimum of three days.Salary/ Wage Range$100,100.00-$147,000.00 / yearCompensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience and may fall outside of the range shown. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at .Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
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