Senior Disaster Recovery Engineer

Your Team's Impact

The candidate will be part of the ITDR Team in RE - Reliability Engineering supporting Core Infrastructure. Join our team and contribute to our commitment to maintaining resiliency and preparedness.

What you'll do

• As a Disaster Recovery Engineer, you will play a contributing role in ensuring our organizations ability to effectively respond to and recover from disasters, safeguarding critical business functions.
• Support the Disaster Recovery Manager and cross-functional technologists to analyse potential risks, perform business impact analyses, and identify critical IT systems and processes.
• Conduct IT Business Impact Analysis (BIA) interviews with IT stakeholders to identify critical systems, Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
• Develop and deploy disaster recovery plans, including updating procedures and documentation for emergency response, assist with data backup and restoration, system recovery, and infrastructure continuity.
• Conduct regular testing and validation of recovery plans and procedures to ensure their effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.
• Provide support to employees on disaster recovery procedures and best practices to enhance organizational readiness and response capabilities.
• Collaborate with IT teams to assess and enhance system recoverability, updating configurations, and monitoring recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs).
• Support the evaluation of third-party vendors and service providers for disaster recovery solutions.
• Continued learning of industry developments, emerging technologies, and regulatory requirements related to disaster recovery, proposing recommendations for program enhancements.
• Assist in incident response and recovery efforts during a crisis, working closely with the Disaster Recovery Specialist, and other technologists to minimize business disruption.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years proven experience in disaster recovery or business continuity planning, with a good understanding of disaster recovery methodologies, technologies, and industry standards.
• Fluent in analytical skills, identify potential risks, evaluate business impacts, and support mitigation plans.
• Understanding of data backup and recovery systems, including experience with data recovery, storage solutions, and disaster recovery technologies.
• Effective problem-solving abilities and attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and completeness in recovery plans and procedures.
• Good understanding of IT infrastructure, networks, operating systems, databases, and cloud platforms.
• Ability to prioritize tasks, support project deliveries, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with relevant compliance regulations and frameworks, such as HIPAA or ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 27031.
• Availability to respond to emergencies outside regular working hours when necessary.

Additional Skills

• Understanding of DRIs Associate Business Continuity Professional (ABCP) or Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), BCIs Certificate of the BCI (CBCI) or Associate Membership of the BCI (AMBCI) preferred.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills, facilitating collaboration with technologists of the organization.
• Effective use in supporting disaster recovery and crisis management events.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, or a related field.