Hiring For Disaster Recover - Senior Associate - Hyd /Bangalore

Responsibilities

• Disaster Recovery Implementation & Cloud Enablement
• Disaster Recovery cloud implementation initiatives across business-critical applications and services.
• deployment and configuration of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for virtual machines, databases, and application workloads.
• Ensure recovery solutions are integrated with enterprise architecture, security, and operational standards.
• Coordinate with application and infrastructure teams to validate recovery readiness and operational support requirements.
• Ensure DR activities align with enterprise risk, compliance, and audit expectations.
• Act as the central coordination point for DR governance across application and infrastructure teams.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) artifacts using ARM templates, Terraform, or similar automation frameworks to support repeatable DR deployments.
• Recovery Testing, Validation & Operational Assurance
• Plan, coordinate, and lead Disaster Recovery drills, failover tests, and recovery validation exercises.
• Validate recovery capabilities against defined RTO, RPO, and business continuity requirements.
• Identify, document, and track testing issues, risks, and remediation activities through closure.
• Provide assurance that recovery procedures, runbooks, and operational controls are tested and maintained.
• Support application owners in addressing DR gaps, risks, or overdue actions.
• Testing Cadence & Readiness Assurance
• Define and manage the DR testing cadence (annual, semiannual, or riskbased).
• Coordinate and track DR test execution across businesscritical systems.
• Validate test outcomes, including recovery timing, success criteria, and exception handling.
• Ensure lessons learned and remediation actions are captured and tracked to closure.
• Measurement, Reporting & Audit Support
• Establish and maintain DR metrics, including:
• Test completion rates
• RTO/RPO attainment
• Outstanding risks and exceptions
• Produce executivelevel DR readiness and compliance reporting.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for internal audit, risk, and compliance reviews related to Disaster Recovery.
• Support regulatory, client, and thirdparty audit inquiries with documented evidence.
• Continuous Improvement & Risk Management
• Identify trends, systemic risks, and improvement opportunities across the DR program.
• Drive standardization of DR templates, reporting, and governance processes.
• Partner with IT Operations, Security, and Risk teams to mature the firms recovery posture over time.

Skills

• Strong experience in Disaster Recovery governance, IT operations, or risk management.
• Disaster Recovery cloud implementation initiatives, evaluating existing infrastructure and providing recommendations for integration and configuration with Azure services.
• Create end-to-end disaster recovery solutions for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud models.
• Working knowledge of RTO/RPO concepts, business impact analysis (BIA), and recovery testing practices.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into technical DR architectures, including cross-region replication, failover automation, and recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO).
• Conduct DR drills and failover tests to validate recovery plans and ensure compliance with business continuity standards.
• Play a lead role in conducting DR tests, identifying and resolving issues encountered during testing, and documenting test results.
• Deployment and configuration of Azure Site Recovery for virtual machines, databases, and application tiers.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using tools like Azure Recovery Manager (ARM) templates or terraform.
• Document architectural designs, operational procedures, and technical decisions.
• Optimize cloud resources for performance and cost efficiency, continuously refining solutions.
• Ability to engage effectively with application owners and technical teams without performing handson engineering.
• Strong documentation, process definition, and control mindset.
• Experience with ServiceNow for workflow tracking, evidence management, or reporting.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Comfort producing metrics, dashboards, and executivelevel reporting.

Education / Professional Experience/ Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field..
• 5–8 years of experience in IT operations, disaster recovery, business continuity, risk, or governance roles.
• Proven experience as an Azure Cloud Administrator or similar role, with deep expertise in expertise in designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions including designing and implementing cloud-based Disaster Recovery using IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud models.
• Understanding of cloud security, networking, and compliance standards.
• Strong knowledge of Azure services, cloud architecture patterns, infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with Azure Active Directory, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure DevOps, Azure Functions, and various storage and compute options.
• Experience supporting enterprise DR programs and recovery testing cycles.
• AZ-900, AZ-104, ITIL, DR/BCP, or riskrelated certifications preferred.