Disaster Recovery Specialist

Disaster Recovery Specialist

Job Overview

As a Disaster Recovery Specialist you will be responsible for developing automating maintaining and improving the disaster recovery program of the company. You will be responsible for developing and implementing projects for all aspects of disaster recovery including planning testing and execution. You will also be responsible for maintaining the tools and procedure documents.

Responsibilities and Duties

Ensure setting up of new DR sites bringing improvements in existing DR sites and upgrade the same.

Design and implement projects to automate the DR activities and improve the RTO & RPO.

Bring new solutions/tools to detect configuration drift at various levels between Production & DR sites.

Planning the drill calendar for business and infra applications and driving to completion.

Update and report the status of Projects Drills and Exceptions to the stakeholders.

• Perform RCA and periodically analyze the outcome of drills to identify the gaps and get more controls built and to check the sync at OS App DB Network and Security levels.
• Get the drill run books reviewed regularly by all SMEs.

Willing to work hands-on to deliver given project.

Work collaboratively with OEM/vendor/partner for deployment of tools and automation solutions for capacity forecasting predictability of failure zero touch operation and auto healing.

Build standard documentation for DR Operations.

Design plan cloud DR solution requirement along with cloud providers.

Ensuring compliance as per regulatory guidelines.

Must be confident passionate to explain and share technology ability to articulate complex technical concept or requirements.

Qualifications

Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in IT Computer Science or a related field.

Knowledge of below technology areas with strong technical skills in at least one area:

oScripting Languages (Python Perl Bash PowerShell)

oDatabases (SQL Server Oracle MySQL MongoDB PostgreSQL)

oCloud Computing Platforms (Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform (GCP))

oCloud Storage Services (AWS S3 Azure Blob Storage Google Cloud Storage)

oVirtualization Technologies (VMware Hyper-V Xen KVM)

oContainerization Technologies (Docker Kubernetes OpenShift)

oNetworking Technologies (TCP/IP DNS DHCP VPN Load Balancing)

oSecurity Technologies (Firewalls Intrusion Detection/Prevention Encryption Vulnerability Assessment)

oOperating Systems (Linux Unix Windows Server)

oContinuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Tools (Jenkins GitLab Travis CI)

oInfrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools (Terraform Ansible Chef Puppet)

oData Science and Analytics (Python Libraries R Spark)

oDR tools (Perpetuuiti Continuity Patrol IBM Resiliency Azure Site Recovery (ASR) / AWS CloudEndure).

Experienced and having an architect-level certification on at least one cloud platform:

oAmazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

oMicrosoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

oGoogle Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect

oOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Architect Associate

oIBM Certified Solution Architect - Cloud Computing Infrastructure v3

oVMware Certified Advanced Professional 7 - Cloud Management and Automation Design

oRed Hat Certified Architect - Cloud

BCP/DR Certification would be an added bonus:

oDRI Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP)

oEDRP: EC-Councils Disaster Recovery Professional

oCertification of the BCI (CBCI)

oDRCS : Disaster Recovery Certified Specialist

oDRCE : Disaster Recovery Certified Expert (DRCE)

oDisaster Recovery Case Management (DRCM) Personnel

Keywords

1. IT Disaster Recovery
2. Business Continuity
3. Crisis Management
4. Disaster Recovery Planning
5. Risk Assessment
6. Disaster Recovery Testing
7. Incident Response
8. Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
9. Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
10. High Availability
11. Backup and Restore
12. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
13. Cloud-based Disaster Recovery
14. Disaster Recovery Frameworks
15. Disaster Recovery Metrics
16. Disaster Recovery Governance
17. Disaster Recovery Budgeting
18. Disaster Recovery Best Practices
19. Disaster Recovery Compliance
20. Disaster Recovery Auditing