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Disaster Recovery Specialist Hybrid - US

Disaster Recovery Specialist

Full Time • Hybrid - US
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.

Compensation: $100.00 - $110.00 per hour




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