Disaster Recovery Specialist

Job Description:

Short Description:

Disaster Recovery Specialist

Complete Description:

Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategy & Planning:

· 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.

Requisition & Deployment:

· 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.

Operational Management:

· 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

Education:

· 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)

Qualifications:

· 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.

· Knowledge of security policies, network security, data security and security event management to adopt cloud security services.

· Intuition and keen instincts to pre-empt attacks.

· Excellent written communication skills.

· Excellent listening skills.

· 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.

· Strong understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.

· Highly self-motivated and directed.

· Strong organizational skills.

· Excellent attention to detail.

· Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

· Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

Skills:

· Design/maintenance of Microsoft Azure IaaS, PaaS like Database services, Kubernetes etc.

· Experience providing IT administration and/or engineering services managing Windows and Linux Servers and Services.

· Strong Experience across Applications Migration (On-Perm VMware) to Azure (Gov Cloud Preferred).

· Broad hands-on knowledge of disaster recovery planning and other industry-standard techniques and practices.

· Knowledge of network technologies as they relate to AWS.

· Knowledge of security policies, network security, data security and security event management to adopt cloud security services.

Flexible work from home options available.