Guidacent's client, a large, complex enterprise, needs help standing up a new Resilience Engineering function within a Central Engineering organization. This is a builder role for a highly experienced engineer who can operate at the intersection of performance engineering, systems reliability, and DR/BC compliance.

This role is ideal for someone who has owned resilience or reliability outcomes end‑to‑end and is comfortable shaping strategy, defining standards, and influencing across engineering organizations without direct authority.

The Opportunity

Our client is merging an established Performance Engineering team with a Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity (DR/BC) compliance group. The Resilience Engineer will serve as the connective tissue between these two disciplines—translating regulatory and audit requirements into practical engineering standards, and converting performance and reliability data into measurable durability guarantees.

You will design the resilience engineering practice largely from scratch, not inherit a mature program.

Key Responsibilities

Own the DR/BC engineering plan, including resilience architecture principles and technical standards
Define and maintain the resilience engineering roadmap, aligned to regulatory, audit, and engineering needs
Translate compliance and regulatory requirements into actionable engineering requirements
Lead tabletop exercises, functional resilience testing, and recovery validation efforts
Establish and maintain the compliance evidence framework required for commissioning and audits
Partner closely with performance engineering, platform, and application teams to harden systems proactively
Use engineering data to validate and improve RTO/RPO assumptions and durability guarantees
Influence standards, patterns, and behaviors across teams without direct managerial authority

Required Experience & Skills

10+ years of engineering experience, with meaningful ownership of resilience, reliability, or durability outcomes
Senior Staff / Principal Engineer–level capability (or a hands‑on engineering manager with deep technical credibility)
Strong background in software and/or systems development
Deep experience in DR/BC and modern resilience engineering practices
Ability to communicate fluently with both engineers and compliance/audit stakeholders
Demonstrated experience defining standards and driving adoption across distributed teams

Strongly Preferred

Hands‑on chaos engineering experience (e.g., injecting failure such as network partitions, dependency outages, or resource exhaustion to surface systemic weaknesses)
Fault injection experience at the component or infrastructure level to validate recovery behavior
SRE background or strong familiarity with SLO, error budget, and reliability frameworks
Experience operating in large‑scale, complex production environments

Additional Notes

This role prioritizes strong development‑centric engineering backgrounds
Candidates whose experience is primarily compliance, audit, or documentation‑focused without hands‑on engineering impact may not be a fit
For this engagement, we are focused on candidates with non‑Microsoft‑centric backgrounds unless their experience clearly reflects deep, hands‑on development work

Why Guidacent

Guidacent is a consulting firm trusted by enterprise clients to solve complex technology and organizational challenges. Our consultants are empowered to shape outcomes, influence strategy, and leave systems better than they found them. This engagement offers a rare opportunity to design a resilience engineering function from the ground up at meaningful enterprise scale.

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