Senior Principal Disaster Recovery Architecture & Engineering

Overview

Regeneron is seeking an IT Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture & Engineering Lead to mature and scale our global DR and resilience capabilities. With a decade of infrastructure-operations experience-including at least five years defining DR architectures and engineering standards-you will develop technical strategy, champion Tier 0 (core infrastructure) recoverability, and deliver innovative solutions across on prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. Your leadership will ensure that Regeneron's critical systems remain available, secure, and compliant as the organization continues to grow.

Success in this role hinges on deep technical expertise, strategic vision, and the ability to collaborate across engineering, application, and business teams in a highly regulated life sciences setting.

Responsibilities

• Drive Tier 0 resiliency roadmaps covering compute, storage, network, cloud, security, and automation frameworks.
• Represent DR at Solution Design Engineering Reviews to embed recovery standards into every new or changed system.
• Author recovery architectures for cyber resilience, including offline/ransomware protection strategies.
• Lead enterprise wide tabletop and hands on recovery tests; analyze results and close gaps.
• Develop RFPs and evaluate innovative technologies to improve recovery speed, scale, and automation.

Qualities

• Translate sophisticated technical challenges into practical, scalable recovery solutions.
• Partner with diverse teams in a matrix environment to influence architecture decisions.
• Communicate crisply with engineers, executives, and vendors-tailoring your message to each audience.
• Relish process improvement and leverage infrastructure as code, automation, and multi cloud design.
• Value compliance and quality in a pharmaceutical manufacturing context.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT infrastructure operations experience, and 5+ years leading enterprise DR architecture/engineering initiatives.
• Expert knowledge of DR tools, VMware HA/SRM, multi cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) design, cloud recovery architectures, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Working familiarity with zero trust concepts.
• Proven ability to lead recovery testing, influence stakeholders across levels, and perform command and control leadership during planned and unplanned events.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.

Salary

€86,800.00 - €141,200.00

EEO Statement

Regeneron is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief (or lack thereof), sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, civil status, pregnancy or parental status, age, disability, nationality, citizenship status, ethnic or national origin, membership of the Traveler community, familial status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. Where required, we will provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with known disabilities or chronic illnesses during the recruitment process, unless such accommodation would impose undue hardship.