Principal Compute, Kubernetes Orchestration & BCDR Engineer

Principal Compute, Kubernetes Orchestration & BCDR Engineer

Location: Puerto Rico, USA

Business Unit: Cencora Puerto Rico – Data Services & Solutions

Reports To: Director, Site Reliability Engineering

Role Type: Individual Contributor – Principal Technical Leader / Architect

Job Type: Full-Time, Exempt

About Cencora Cencora is a global healthcare company delivering secure, scalable, and compliant data

platforms supporting global pharmaceutical supply chains and analytics services.

Position Summary The Principal Compute, Kubernetes Orchestration & BCDR Engineer is the senior-most

technical authority responsible for defining enterprise-wide strategy, governance, and

architecture across hybrid compute, Kubernetes platforms, and business

continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR). This role drives global platform engineering

standards, resiliency programs, and long-term infrastructure strategy across multi-cloud

and on-prem ecosystems.

Primary Responsibilities

Compute Orchestration Strategy & Platform Leadership

• Define enterprise Kubernetes and container platform strategy across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Develop reference architectures and standard patterns for microservices and analytics workloads.
• Establish platform engineering self-service capabilities and standardized environments.
• Serve as escalation authority for critical platform and orchestration issues.

Infrastructure-as-Code & Automation Strategy

• Define enterprise IaC governance using Terraform, ArgoCD, and Helm.
• Implement GitOps-based deployment and compliance models.
• Drive reusable automation modules and policy enforcement frameworks.

Hybrid Compute & Capacity Engineering

• Architect hybrid infrastructure strategies across cloud and on-prem platforms.
• Lead enterprise capacity planning for scalability and performance.
• Drive cost optimization and workload efficiency initiatives.

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) – Enterprise Ownership

• Define and own enterprise-wide BCDR strategy across hybrid cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) and on-prem infrastructure.
• Establish BCDR governance, policies, and control frameworks aligned to NIST, ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC2, and FDA regulations.
• Architect multi-region and multi-cloud failover strategies ensuring RTO ≤ 15 minutes and RPO ≤ 5 minutes.
• Define standardized DR patterns for compute, Kubernetes clusters, and data platforms.
• Design hybrid DR strategies including active-active, active-passive, pilot-light, and warm standby architectures.
• Lead full lifecycle BCDR program including planning, execution, validation, and continuous improvement.
• Define RACI ownership models across Infrastructure, Platform, Data, and Security teams for DR operations.
• Ensure Kubernetes resilience including cluster failover, replication, and workload recovery orchestration.
• Define enterprise backup and data protection strategies across structured and unstructured data workloads.
• Lead DR testing programs (quarterly/annual) including full-scale failover simulations.
• Establish BCDR reporting dashboards covering readiness, compliance, RTO/RPO adherence, and risk posture.
• Provide executive reporting and KPI tracking for disaster readiness and operational resilience.
• Partner with Corporate Risk, Audit, and Compliance to ensure audit readiness and traceability of all DR controls.
• Ensure complete documentation including runbooks, recovery procedures, architecture diagrams, and dependency mappings.
• Drive continuous improvement through post-incident analysis and resilience gap remediation.
• Align DR strategy with enterprise risk management frameworks and business continuity objectives.
• Ensure DR artifacts meet audit standards with full evidence collection and validation records.
• Enforce encryption, secure recovery procedures, and data protection controls across all DR workflows.

Reliability, Observability & Performance

• Define enterprise observability frameworks across metrics, logs, and tracing.
• Establish SLO/SLI/SLA governance models.
• Drive proactive reliability engineering and self-healing systems.

Security & Compliance

• Define security standards for infrastructure and container environments.
• Ensure compliance with global regulatory frameworks.
• Implement RBAC, encryption, and zero-trust architectures.

Enterprise Leadership & Collaboration

• Serve as advisor to executive leadership on infrastructure strategy and risk.
• Mentor engineering teams and promote technical excellence.
• Drive alignment across SRE, Platform, Security, and Data teams.

Key Metrics & Expected Outcomes

• Service Uptime ≥ 99.9%
• RTO ≤ 15 minutes
• RPO ≤ 5 minutes
• MTTR ≤ 2 hours
• 100% BCDR validation compliance
• 100% patch compliance within SLA

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred.
• 12+ years in SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Deep experience with hybrid cloud architectures and Kubernetes platforms.
• Proven leadership in enterprise BCDR strategy and execution.
• Hands‑on experience with cloud DR solutions (Azure Site Recovery, AWS DR, multi-cloud failover).
• Strong understanding of compliance and regulatory frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC2).
• Experience supporting audit processes and producing evidence-based documentation.
• Expertise in Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of resilience engineering and distributed systems recovery.