Disaster Recovery Analyst
, TX, United States
Overview
The position focuses on enabling the IT Disaster Recovery process and providing expertise in Disaster Recovery (D/R) concepts, plan authoring, validation, and testing of critical systems. The role is highly focused on the development, delivery, and maintenance of technical and complex Ransomware planning and the support of simulation tests and tabletop exercises.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
Proven experience within the disaster recovery field.
3+ years leading medium to complex multi-million-dollar systems development programs.
3+ years of experience with disaster recovery planning software and tools.
Experience with Office 365, Teams, and SharePoint.
Specialized Skills and Technologies
Strong understanding of ransomware recovery and architectural design of Isolated Recovery Environments.
Subject matter expertise in IT Disaster Recovery with a minimum of 3 years of disaster recovery experience .
5+ years of experience in an Information Technology discipline.
3+ year s of experience with developing/testing recovery strategies for cloud ( IaaS/SaaS ) based applications.
Working knowledge of recovery tools such as SRM and Zerto.
Strong project manager skills with 5+ years of hands-on experience.
3+ years of experience with automation and orchestration tools for recovering applications at alternate locations.
Experience developing business impact analysis documents.
Strategic mindset to lead recovery strategy planning efforts.
Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex integrated disaster recovery exercises.
Thorough knowledge of data management to assist in the preparation of recovery procedures.
Strong ability to build effective relationships with clients and colleagues.
Duties and Responsibilities
Coordination and Risk Management :
Coordinate with various IT and business groups to identify critical systems and dependencies, and potential vulnerabilities and risks that could result in catastrophic impact.
Execute Ransomware Rebuild simulation tests, document results, recovery time capabilities, issues, and resolutions through post-testing analysis.
Serve as tertiary backup during tabletop exercises or actual catastrophic disaster recovery or business continuity events.
Certifications and Technical Skills :
ITIL v3 foundation certification.
Experience in support and incident, problem, event, and change management.
Understanding of d ata center operations and the interaction between teams that support systems and network infrastructure.
Exposure to enterprise monitoring tools such as Microsoft SCOM, SolarWinds, SquaredUP, and automated escalation software.
Exposure to Incident Command System (ICS) / National Incident Management System (NIMS) concepts, with a special focus on Incident Commander responsibilities.
Infrastructure and Operations :
Mix of infrastructure skills across server, database, network, and support desk.
Thorough understanding of data center operations and the interaction between teams that support systems and network infrastructure.
Expertise in problem management, root cause analysis methodologies, and incident resolution .
Experience with APM (Application Performance Monitoring) and other monitoring solution tools.
Experience in an Operations Control Center .
Experience supporting server operating systems or hardware.
Experience with infrastructure theories, principles, and concepts.
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