Tech Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Staff Specialist

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Position Summary
GEICO Tech is seeking a highly motivated Tech Staff Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Specialist to join GEICOs SRE Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery team. The candidate will be responsible for developing implementing and maintaining GEICOs BCDR policies and procedures for ensuring the resilience continuity and recoverability of the organizations critical applications platforms & infrastructure in the event of a disaster or disruption.

Position Description
A successful candidate will have a solid understanding of the technology stack that supports our services and infrastructure as well as the BCDR domain knowledge to meet disaster recovery challenges that are constantly evolving. The associate will work across GEICO Tech organization to review system architecture and strategy documents and provide BCDR guidance aligning with our policy. The candidate will also work with service owners to make sure they have BCDR plans and capabilities that will allow them to quickly restore routine service operations as well as recover critical services from service disruptions.

Position Responsibilities
As a Staff Tech BCDR Specialist you will:
Develop and drive GEICOs Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) strategy aligning with the organizations business goals and objectives.
Collaborate on risk assessments and business impact analyses (BIA) to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities to the organizations operations and assets and develop recovery objectives (RTO & RPO).
Review the design and architecture of GEICOs services infrastructure and platforms and provide guidance on building resilient scalable and recoverable systems considering both active-active and active-passive solutions hosted on on-premises cloud-based & hybrid data centers.
Ensure that all businesses have an effective and up-to-date comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery plans that meet our BCDR policy & standards.
Coordinate and conduct testing simulations and tabletop exercises to validate identify recovery gaps and improve the BCDR plans and capabilities.
Develop cutting-edge BCDR reports with PowerBI Tableau or other reporting tools/technology that includes BCDR metrics BIA data Recovery Time Objective (RTO) & Recovery Point Objective (RPO) Recovery Time & Point Actuals (RTA & RPA) etc. with GEICO Tech and CLT.
Able to guide others and automate tasks using languages such as Python or Golang.
Able to understand data at all levels analyze trends provide insights and actions. Influence customers and stakeholders with data to achieve BCDR goals.
Provide leadership guidance when necessary and support to the management and staff on disaster recovery and business continuity best practices and standards.
Liaison and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders such as Tech security legal compliance vendors and regulators to ensure alignment and compliance with the disaster recovery and business continuity objectives and requirements.
Analyze internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices to improve products processes or services.
Conduct year-end BCDR Risk Acceptance/Exception process for services unable to meet the mandatory BCDR requirements.


Qualifications:

Solid track record of working in various disaster recovery scenarios like cyber incidents (e.g. ransomware) tech outages (Network/Power/Vendor platforms) catastrophic data loss natural disasters etc.
Solid understanding of various IT practices methodologies and principles along with the knowledge of on-prem cloud-based and hybrid data centers network compute and storage technologies
Deep understanding of IaaS and PaaS technologies container orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) cloud efficiency and observability etc.
Strong background in cyber and availability incident management processes
Familiarity with cyber security best practices and compliance standards is a major plus
Excellent leadership skills with a passion for mentoring and fostering professional growth
Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities with a keen eye for detail and a passion for driving operational excellence
Thought leader with the ability to anticipate future challenges and opportunities with exceptional leadership and communication skills
Ability to articulate Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery concepts and methodologies to senior executives and engineers alike.
Experience working in agile environments (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe)
Proven large scale program management skills and experience driving cross-organizational projects.
Familiarity with various BCDR tools like Assurance or open-source products is a major plus.
One or more of the following or relevant certifications are highly desired:
Azure Devops (AZ-400)
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
AWS Cloud Practitioner
Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
BCDR certificates (CBCP CBCI CBCM or similar)

Experience:
6 Years of Industry experience working in Tech in various roles in (Software Development Systems Engineering and/or IT Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery)
4 years of experience with various compliance & controls (NIST NYDFS ISO etc.)
4 years of experience with architecture and design relevant to business continuity & disaster recovery.
2 years of experience with AWS GCP Azure or another cloud service
2 years of experience with reporting tools like PowerBI Tableau etc.

Education:
Bachelors degree in computer science Information Systems or equivalent education or work experience

Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include but are not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the role the selected candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company:At GEICO we help our customers through lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples lives.

Great Careers:We offer a career where you can learn grow and thrive through personalized development programs created with your career and your potential in mind. Youll have access to industry leading training certification assistance career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture:We foster an inclusive culture of shared success rooted in integrity a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values we have an an established culture of caring inclusion and belonging that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards:We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your familys overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race color religious creed national origin ancestry age gender pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity marital status familial status disability or genetic information in compliance with applicable federal state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.