Guwahati is hiring a Lead Disaster Recovery Engineer for a full-time, on-site role in Ganeshguri, with a top pay of ₹1,55,000 per month. This one sits at the lead level, so the employer wants someone who's already run recovery operations under pressure, not someone learning the ropes on the job.
The requirements, straight up
You'll need a bachelor's degree, and given the field, computer science or IT is the expected route in. On top of that, the role requires 10 years of hands-on experience in disaster recovery and business continuity. That's not a number to fudge. Lead roles like this one get handed incidents nobody else wants to own, and a decade of practice makes that manageable instead of terrifying.
What the job actually involves
- Building and maintaining automation and scripts that keep backup and recovery systems running without manual intervention every time
- Working across teams, including infrastructure, security, and application owners, to design continuity plans that actually hold up during a real outage
- Fixing gaps and failures uncovered during recovery drills and failover testing, before they show up during an actual incident
None of this is theoretical. A recovery plan that's never been stress-tested is just a document, and part of the lead's job is making sure that's no longer true.
Core skills
- Disaster recovery planning, from documentation through to executing a failover
- Backup systems administration, including retention policies and restore verification
- Business continuity work, connecting technical recovery to what the business needs operational first
A DRII certification or an ISO 22301 background will strengthen an application, though it's not required if the practical DR experience is deep. Comfort with scripting in Python or Bash for backup automation also helps, since much of this role is about reducing how much has to be done by hand at 2 a.m.
What the team looks like
This is an on-site position in Ganeshguri, working directly with the infrastructure and platform teams rather than coordinating with them remotely. The employer, hiring through Naukri Mitra, runs recovery drills on a scheduled basis rather than waiting for a real incident to test the plan, which is the kind of detail that tells you how seriously continuity is taken here. Expect some weeks to be for documentation and planning, and others to be all-hands responses when a system goes down, and the recovery plan gets used for real.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Performance-linked bonuses
- Relocation assistance and accommodation support for the move to Guwahati
Pay and location
The role pays up to ₹1,55,000 per month and is based in Ganeshguri, Guwahati, Assam. Anyone tracking disaster recovery engineer salaries in Guwahati will notice this is a strong figure for the city, and it aligns with what a lead-level, decade-experienced hire typically commands in this line of work.
Applying
Send an updated resume that clearly outlines your DR and business continuity background, including any large-scale recovery events you've led or participated in. Shortlisted candidates get contacted directly for the next step.
