Charles River Associates
Site Reliability Engineer - Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
About this role
Charles River Associates seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure critical business services remain reliable and performant across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. The role combines software engineering with operations to automate manual processes, improve system observability, and strengthen incident response across the firm's Microsoft-centric infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Design and execute a scalable disaster recovery testing program with defined cadence, success criteria, and runbook maintenance
- Define and maintain service level indicators (SLIs) and objectives (SLOs) with service owners, tracking error budgets and reliability metrics
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and dashboards to reduce mean time to detect and respond to incidents
- Lead blameless post-incident reviews to identify root causes and drive remediation to completion
- Manage hands-on infrastructure for Windows Server, VMware vSphere, VMware Site Recovery Manager, SAN technologies, and Rubrik
- Collaborate cross-functionally with infrastructure, security, application, and service delivery teams on reliability improvements
What they're looking for
- VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and Azure Site Recovery (ASR) experience
- SRE concepts and practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, observability)
- Disaster recovery orchestration and testing program development
- Windows Server, VMware vSphere, and SAN storage administration
- Monitoring, logging, and alerting tools and practices
- Incident response and operational readiness management
- Runbook documentation and standardization
- Cross-functional communication and on-call rotation participation
Benefits
- Learning opportunities from diverse consultants and industry experts
- Formal and informal training and professional development resources
- Career advancement doors opened through collegial environment
- Multiple office locations across US and international sites
- Robust career growth benefits program
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Charles River Associates
Charles River Associates builds reliable infrastructure systems, AI-driven workflow platforms, and privacy-compliant forensic software solutions. The company is hiring Site Reliability Engineers, Full Stack Agentic Developers, and Full Stack Developers to strengthen its cloud operations, AI capabilities, and specialized forensic services.
- Website
- crai.com
Likely interview questions
- Tell us about your experience with disaster recovery orchestration tools like VMware Site Recovery Manager or Azure Site Recovery. What was the most complex DR scenario you've managed?
- Describe your approach to designing and executing a DR testing program. How did you handle stakeholder coordination and validation of RTO/RPO assumptions?