Disaster Recovery Specialist

Role Overview

• Conduct risk assessments and business impact analyses to identify vulnerable areas within the company’s critical functions.
• Recommend and implement disaster avoidance strategies and impact reduction strategies.
• Confer with IT department and other key personnel to determine if changes in hardware or software configurations affect disaster recovery plan outcomes.
• Direct and coordinate staff efforts to formulate department-specific disaster recovery plans.
• Conduct research on emerging products, services, protocols, and standards in support of contingency planning and development efforts.
• Interact and negotiate with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to obtain protection services and products.
• Download and test new disaster recovery software and/or technologies.
• Recommend, and where necessary, schedule and perform security improvements, upgrades, and/or purchases.
• Develop and establish disaster recovery procedures for the restoration of mission-critical business applications in the event of natural disasters, technical failures, power outages, and human interference.
• Manage and coordinate all aspects of actual recovery plan implementation and efforts, including initial emergency response, recovery procedures, and business resumption processes.
• Develop, implement, maintain, and oversee enforcement of policies, procedures and associated plans for disaster recovery administration and business continuity based on industry-standard best practices.
• Inform and train staff members on their responsibilities concerning business continuity procedures and emergency response.
• Ensure that company equipment, systems, services, and facility are compliant with disaster recovery plans and procedures.
• Ensure the preservation of vital information, data, or media through diligent maintenance of hard copies and backup equipment.
• Continually conduct simulations and test runs of system disruptions in order to revise and perfect plans.
• Assess need for any security reconfigurations (minor or significant) and execute them if required.
• Where appropriate, recommend, schedule, and apply fixes, security patches, and any other measures required in the event of business disruption.
• Investigate and select locations for off-site storage of data and backups.
• Keep current with emerging security alerts and issues.
• Manage and/or provide guidance to junior members of the team.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science OR Bachelor's degree with a combination of education and successful work experience (10 years)
• DR/BCP Certification in specialized areas (Required)
• Minimum (3) years of experience in design and maintenance of public/Gov cloud solutions with a focus on Microsoft Azure (Gov preferred) IaaS, PaaS service like Database services, Kubernetes etc.
• Minimum (3) years of experience providing IT administration and/or engineering services managing Windows and Linux Servers and Services.
• Broad hands-on knowledge of disaster recovery planning and other industry-standard techniques and practices.
• In-depth knowledge of all types of disasters, natural or otherwise, and their effect on company technologies.
• Working technical knowledge of current systems software, hardware, protocols, and standards
• Strong knowledge of network administration/protocols
• Solid project management skills.
• Knowledge of and experience with property and casualty insurance.
• Knowledge of applicable practices and laws relating to data privacy and protection.
• Excellent technical architecture skills, enabling the creation of future-proof, complex global solutions and Strong Experience across Applications Migration (On-Perm VMware) to Azure (Gov Cloud Preferred).
• Knowledge of network technologies as they relate to AWS.
• Strong interpersonal and oral communication skills.
• High level of analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to conduct research into recovery and security issues and products as required.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• VMware

Benefits

• Flexible work from home options