Disaster Recovery Consultant

Work Experience

• Overall IT professional experience 15 year
• At least 10 year Business continuity Disaster Recovery Management Planning Coordination and Management experience

Responsibilities

• Overall program governance report health status of DR program
• Lead quarterly reviews with HCLTech and client leadership teams
• Propose gaps and recommendations in DR operations by bringing in industry best practices as followed by organizations of similar size and scale.
• Govern the overall DR planning & exercising of recovery testing
• Excellent understanding of recovery strategies and various Infrastructure Technologies Like Storage Backup Networks Security and Operating Systems (WINTEL Linux Solaris).
• Understanding of various services provided by service provider and leading the continuity and resiliency of the delivery of those services
• Experience in identification of Technology domain causing incident or issues during a disaster recovery exercise.
• Excellent Understanding of Recovery & Resilience management life cycle.
• Experience in determining the adequate test environment drill & test plan requirements
• Lead efforts for Testing DR environment for datacenter failover and failback and BCP testing
• Drill execution co-ordination incident / issues tracking during drills
• Experience in recovery testing data collection analysis and reporting with recommendation of alterations to improve recovery performance
• Leadership and Management Reporting and presentation skills
• Manage the team of Disaster Recovery Consultants and customer handling skills
• Well affluent in tools that enable BCP & DR replication and automation
• Able to drive customer on a streamlined BCP& DR approach for Business as Usual sustainability and readiness
• Streamline Business continuity & Disaster Recovery process and operations for customer
• Define recovery testing calendar and engage in conversations with customers Application and Business teams

Skills and Specifications

• Ability to analysis critical factors impacting the recovery activities and success.
• Should have undergone specialized training / Certification in Disaster Recovery & Management.
• Task Coordination and Project Management skills
• Network / Security / Storage / Backup Technology related experience.
• Virtualization technology experience would be added advantage.
• Communication & Presentation Skills.

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science Information Systems or a related field.
• At least 8 years of experience in computing or related area with a focus on technology and management.
• Professional certifications such as MBCI/CBCI/CBCP/ ISO22301 would be added advantage.