Sutherland: Architect – Azure DR -Lead — Hyderabad, //TS, India

About Sutherland

Sutherland works in business and digital transformation, combining technology services with business-process expertise. Its employer descriptions identify artificial intelligence, automation, cloud engineering and advanced analytics as areas of activity. The company uses products, platforms and service delivery to improve business operations and customer experiences. Its stated approach brings human expertise together with AI, adapting technology and process changes to the needs of the organisation receiving the service rather than providing only a standalone software product.

The position and its setting

Sutherland lists Architect – Azure DR -Lead in Hyderabad, //TS, India, under reference REF47212N. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Employment type: Full-time
• Employer listing date: 24 September 2026
• Brands: Sutherland

Responsibilities and work described

• Architecture: and lead Azure‑based Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP) solutions
• Design: and maintain Azure DR architectures using Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, and multi‑region strategies
• Define RTO/RPO targets, recovery strategies, and application dependency mapping for Azure workloads
• Development: and govern Azure DR/BCP policies, standards, and recovery plans
• Research / execution: risk assessments and Business Impact Analysis (BIA) for Azure and hybrid environments
• Plan, execute, and oversee Azure DR drills, failover/failback tests, and BCP exercises
• Quality / delivery: compliance and audit readiness aligned with security, regulatory, and organizational requirements
• Identify resiliency gaps and drive continuous improvement in Azure recovery capabilities
• Collaboration: with cloud, application, security, and leadership teams for DR/BCP readiness
• Act as Azure DR/BCP Architect and Lead, owning governance, documentation, and stakeholder communication
• Percentage Of Experience
• 8+ years of relevant experience in below
• Leadership: DR tabletop exercises: Guide cross-functional teams (IT, apps, business) through scripted failure scenarios, discussing roles, timelines, and decisions without live systems
• Research / execution: full-scale DR drills: Oversee failover to secondary sites or cloud (e.g., Azure, monitoring restore times, data integrity, and failback processes
• Execution: system backups/restores: Hands-on testing of critical Oracle EBS modules, databases, and cloud workloads to ensure recovery within

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 8+ years
• Location: Hyderabad / Remote
• 8+ years of experience in DR, BCP, or IT Resiliency architecture
• Knowledge: DR strategies, recovery planning, and risk management
• Experience: enterprise infrastructure, cloud, and application recovery models
• Hands-on experience planning and executing DR and BCP tests
• Understanding: compliance, audit, and governance frameworks
• Soft Skills
• Leadership and stakeholder management skills
• Communication and documentation abilities
• Work with cross‑functional and senior leadership teams
• Experience: Azure cloud DR
• Azure certifications (AZ‑305, AZ‑400, AZ‑104)

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Good to Have (Preferred)

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• Work arrangement: Remote
• Advertised location: Hyderabad, //TS, India

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Sutherland

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Practical preparation: Azure

An Azure example should identify the workload, the services used and the part you owned. Deployment, identity, observability and incident handling provide useful context when they were part of the assignment.

Relevant skills

• Azure
• audit
• compliance
• stakeholder management
• communication
• Oracle applications
• risk management