Disaster Recovery Specialist

Job Overview

As a Disaster Recovery Specialist, you will be responsible for developing, automating, maintaining, and improving the disaster recovery program of the company. You will be responsible for developing and implementing projects for all aspects of disaster recovery including planning, testing, and execution. You will also be responsible for maintaining the tools and procedure documents.

Responsibilities and Duties

·        Ensure setting up of new DR sites, bringing improvements in existing DR sites and upgrade the same.

·        Design and implement projects to automate the DR activities and improve the RTO & RPO.

·        Bring new solutions/tools to detect configuration drift at various levels between Production & DR sites.

·        Planning the drill calendar for business and infra applications and driving to completion.

·        Update and report the status of Projects, Drills and Exceptions to the stakeholders.

• Perform RCA and periodically analyze the outcome of drills to identify the gaps and get more controls built and to check the sync at OS, App, DB, Network, and Security levels.
• Get the drill run books reviewed regularly by all SMEs.

·        Willing to work hands-on to deliver given project.

·        Work collaboratively with OEM/vendor/partner for deployment of tools and automation solutions for capacity forecasting, predictability of failure, zero touch operation and auto healing.

·        Build standard documentation for DR Operations.

·        Design, plan cloud DR solution requirement along with cloud providers.

·        Ensuring compliance as per regulatory guidelines.

·        Must be confident, passionate to explain and share technology, ability to articulate complex technical concept or requirements.

Qualifications

·        Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in IT, Computer Science, or a related field.

·        Knowledge of below technology areas, with strong technical skills in at least one area:

o  Scripting Languages (Python, Perl, Bash, PowerShell)

o  Databases (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL)

o  Cloud Computing Platforms (Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP))

o  Cloud Storage Services (AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage)

o  Virtualization Technologies (VMware, Hyper-V, Xen, KVM)

o  Containerization Technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)

o  Networking Technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, Load Balancing)

o  Security Technologies (Firewalls, Intrusion Detection/Prevention, Encryption, Vulnerability Assessment)

o  Operating Systems (Linux, Unix, Windows Server)

o  Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) Tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Travis CI)

o  Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

o  Data Science and Analytics (Python Libraries, R, Spark)

o  DR tools (Perpetuuiti Continuity Patrol, IBM Resiliency, Azure Site Recovery (ASR) / AWS CloudEndure).

·        Experienced and having an architect-level certification on at least one cloud platform:

o  Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

o  Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

o  Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect

o  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Architect Associate

o  IBM Certified Solution Architect - Cloud Computing Infrastructure v3

o  VMware Certified Advanced Professional 7 - Cloud Management and Automation Design

o  Red Hat Certified Architect - Cloud

·        BCP/DR Certification would be an added bonus:

o  DRI Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP)

o  EDRP: EC-Council’s Disaster Recovery Professional

o  Certification of the BCI (CBCI)

o  DRCS : Disaster Recovery Certified Specialist

o  DRCE : Disaster Recovery Certified Expert (DRCE)

o  Disaster Recovery Case Management (DRCM) Personnel

Keywords

1. IT Disaster Recovery
2. Business Continuity
3. Crisis Management
4. Disaster Recovery Planning
5. Risk Assessment
6. Disaster Recovery Testing
7. Incident Response
8. Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
9. Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
10. High Availability
11. Backup and Restore
12. Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
13. Cloud-based Disaster Recovery
14. Disaster Recovery Frameworks
15. Disaster Recovery Metrics
16. Disaster Recovery Governance
17. Disaster Recovery Budgeting
18. Disaster Recovery Best Practices
19. Disaster Recovery Compliance
20. Disaster Recovery Auditing