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.