SME - Disastery Recovery Exercise

Job Summary

 Role Purpose This role is responsible for strengthening disaster recovery governance by creating and maintaining DR policy framework documents. It ensures alignment with on-ground requirements and usability for reporting DR test results and playbooks across all business units and corporate functions. Roles and Responsibilities Governance, Policy and Risk Management - Provide DR resilience expertise for potential disaster scenarios to ensure technology infrastructure, applications, and services meet resilience requirements. - Maintain and update DR policy, framework, processes, test standards, and templates to remain usable and audit-ready. DR Testing, Execution and Data Readiness - Manage execution of disaster recovery strategies during IT service interruptions, including reporting recovery updates to leadership. - Coordinate and participate in DR tests, ensuring standards are followed and results reported promptly. - Capture disaster recovery data (applications, infrastructure, criticality) in BCM tools. - Provide subject matter expertise in DR test plans for various technologies and application stacks. Stakeholder Engagement and BCM Alignment - Work closely with BCM teams to align BIAs, recovery strategies, and BC/DR plans with IT dependencies. - Collaborate with resilience leads across business units and corporate functions to meet client and internal requirements. - Deliver results while working with remote, virtual, and cross-functional teams globally. Required Qualifications - 10+ years of overall experience, with 5–7 years in disaster recovery planning and implementation in large organizations or consulting. - Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, IT, or related field. - Strong understanding of DR and BCM processes aligned with ISO 22301, and ITIL. - Knowledge of IT Business Continuity, cybersecurity, integrated risk management, DR tools, IT infrastructure, data centers, cloud technologies, application recovery, and air-gap recovery. - Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure. - Proficiency in MS Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint). - Excellent oral and written communication skills with strong project and influencing abilities.

Key Responsibilities

 Role Purpose This role is responsible for strengthening disaster recovery governance by creating and maintaining DR policy framework documents. It ensures alignment with on-ground requirements and usability for reporting DR test results and playbooks across all business units and corporate functions. Roles and Responsibilities Governance, Policy and Risk Management - Provide DR resilience expertise for potential disaster scenarios to ensure technology infrastructure, applications, and services meet resilience requirements. - Maintain and update DR policy, framework, processes, test standards, and templates to remain usable and audit-ready. DR Testing, Execution and Data Readiness - Manage execution of disaster recovery strategies during IT service interruptions, including reporting recovery updates to leadership. - Coordinate and participate in DR tests, ensuring standards are followed and results reported promptly. - Capture disaster recovery data (applications, infrastructure, criticality) in BCM tools. - Provide subject matter expertise in DR test plans for various technologies and application stacks. Stakeholder Engagement and BCM Alignment - Work closely with BCM teams to align BIAs, recovery strategies, and BC/DR plans with IT dependencies. - Collaborate with resilience leads across business units and corporate functions to meet client and internal requirements. - Deliver results while working with remote, virtual, and cross-functional teams globally. Required Qualifications - 10+ years of overall experience, with 5–7 years in disaster recovery planning and implementation in large organizations or consulting. - Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, IT, or related field. - Strong understanding of DR and BCM processes aligned with ISO 22301, and ITIL. - Knowledge of IT Business Continuity, cybersecurity, integrated risk management, DR tools, IT infrastructure, data centers, cloud technologies, application recovery, and air-gap recovery. - Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure. - Proficiency in MS Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint). - Excellent oral and written communication skills with strong project and influencing abilities.

Skill Requirements

 Role Purpose This role is responsible for strengthening disaster recovery governance by creating and maintaining DR policy framework documents. It ensures alignment with on-ground requirements and usability for reporting DR test results and playbooks across all business units and corporate functions. Roles and Responsibilities Governance, Policy and Risk Management - Provide DR resilience expertise for potential disaster scenarios to ensure technology infrastructure, applications, and services meet resilience requirements. - Maintain and update DR policy, framework, processes, test standards, and templates to remain usable and audit-ready. DR Testing, Execution and Data Readiness - Manage execution of disaster recovery strategies during IT service interruptions, including reporting recovery updates to leadership. - Coordinate and participate in DR tests, ensuring standards are followed and results reported promptly. - Capture disaster recovery data (applications, infrastructure, criticality) in BCM tools. - Provide subject matter expertise in DR test plans for various technologies and application stacks. Stakeholder Engagement and BCM Alignment - Work closely with BCM teams to align BIAs, recovery strategies, and BC/DR plans with IT dependencies. - Collaborate with resilience leads across business units and corporate functions to meet client and internal requirements. - Deliver results while working with remote, virtual, and cross-functional teams globally. Required Qualifications - 10+ years of overall experience, with 5–7 years in disaster recovery planning and implementation in large organizations or consulting. - Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, IT, or related field. - Strong understanding of DR and BCM processes aligned with ISO 22301, and ITIL. - Knowledge of IT Business Continuity, cybersecurity, integrated risk management, DR tools, IT infrastructure, data centers, cloud technologies, application recovery, and air-gap recovery. - Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure. - Proficiency in MS Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint). - Excellent oral and written communication skills with strong project and influencing abilities.

Other Requirements

 Role Purpose This role is responsible for strengthening disaster recovery governance by creating and maintaining DR policy framework documents. It ensures alignment with on-ground requirements and usability for reporting DR test results and playbooks across all business units and corporate functions. Roles and Responsibilities Governance, Policy and Risk Management - Provide DR resilience expertise for potential disaster scenarios to ensure technology infrastructure, applications, and services meet resilience requirements. - Maintain and update DR policy, framework, processes, test standards, and templates to remain usable and audit-ready. DR Testing, Execution and Data Readiness - Manage execution of disaster recovery strategies during IT service interruptions, including reporting recovery updates to leadership. - Coordinate and participate in DR tests, ensuring standards are followed and results reported promptly. - Capture disaster recovery data (applications, infrastructure, criticality) in BCM tools. - Provide subject matter expertise in DR test plans for various technologies and application stacks. Stakeholder Engagement and BCM Alignment - Work closely with BCM teams to align BIAs, recovery strategies, and BC/DR plans with IT dependencies. - Collaborate with resilience leads across business units and corporate functions to meet client and internal requirements. - Deliver results while working with remote, virtual, and cross-functional teams globally. Required Qualifications - 10+ years of overall experience, with 5–7 years in disaster recovery planning and implementation in large organizations or consulting. - Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, IT, or related field. - Strong understanding of DR and BCM processes aligned with ISO 22301, and ITIL. - Knowledge of IT Business Continuity, cybersecurity, integrated risk management, DR tools, IT infrastructure, data centers, cloud technologies, application recovery, and air-gap recovery. - Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure. - Proficiency in MS Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint). - Excellent oral and written communication skills with strong project and influencing abilities.