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Job Summary

Build and implement detailed disaster recovery plans for crucial infrastructure components and critical applications. Fortify the resilience of our critical systems and operations. A confirmed background in disaster recovery planning, risk management, and cybersecurity is critical for success in this role.

Responsibilities

As the Senior Disaster Recovery Specialist,

• Responsible for designing and implementing comprehensive disaster recovery plans for infrastructure components and critical applications to ensure the resilience of our critical systems and operations

• Own the development, maintenance, and testing of disaster recovery and business continuity plans to ensure the rapid recovery of critical systems, infrastructure, and data

• Demonstrable ability to coordinate sophisticated integrated disaster recovery exercises

• Coordinates with various information technology and business groups to identify critical systems and dependencies, and the potential vulnerabilities and risks that could result in catastrophic impact

• Generate regular reports on the organization's disaster recovery capabilities and security posture for executive leadership and collaborators

• Stay up to date with industry standards, regulations, and best practices related to disaster recovery and business continuity

• Conduct detailed Technology Risk assessment and Business Impact Analysis

• Develop resilience reports that identify gaps and recommendations from Technology Risk assessment and Business Impact Analysis

• Maintains knowledge on the current and emerging developments/trends for IT Disaster Recovery technology and resilience solutions

• Collaborate with technical engineering teams to understand the evolving architectures to plan, design and test the resilience solutions

• Review and provide recommendations for departments Technology Disaster recovery Plans and Business Continuity/ Continuity of Operations Plans

• Develop and maintain Business Continuity/ Continuity of Operations Plans for the department and each division

• Review the completeness of technology recovery plans and procedures for critical technology systems and applications for completeness

• Design, plan, coordinate and implement technology resilience test/exercise with recovery teams for all critical technology systems and applications

• Support natural, human-caused, and technology disaster/emergencies during the activations of the Emergency Operations Center/Department Operation Center

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience

• Bachelor's or equivalent experience preferred

• Industry certification(s) preferred

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