Sr. Disaster Recovery Engineer-1

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Description

The Senior IT Disaster Recovery Engineer engages in all facets and activities of the DR program with specific focus on Program documentation, contributing to continuous process improvement for DR Program activities, recovery planning development, testing and compliance. A solid understanding of ITDR planning and recovery capabilities is necessary. Participates in the greater DR Program as part of the team providing collaboration and supporting education of business and IT around all aspects of disaster recovery. The Senior IT Disaster Recovery Engineer work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

Responsibilities

The Senior IT Disaster Recovery Engineer engages in all facets and activities of the DR Program with specific focus on:


Understanding and advocating DR Program cloud strategy while executing activities with IT teams.
Contributing to Tech Modernization Program specific to DR cloud transformation efforts.
Implementing policies and procedures for disaster recovery planning for cloud and on-premise solutions.
Managing recovery plan development and maintenance activities to ensure plans are current and compliant
Managing the test lifecycle supporting and facilitating testing with infrastructure and applications teams in alignment with DR program requirements
Comfortable leading discussions and educating business and IT partners in matters concerning DR methodology, strategy, practices, roles and responsibilities.
Highly experienced in engaging infrastructure and application teams to collaborate on discussions and requirements for disaster recovery including experience with recovery of cloud infrastructure and services
Solid understanding of IT infrastructure, application and operations environment structure
Able to work successfully as a member of a team through collaboration and support.
Proven ability to influence and collaborate with internal and external resources.
Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues, ability to solve problems and address obstacles.
Capable of managing multiple assignments/priorities in a fast-paced environment using discernment, organization, time and objectives management.
Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.
Provides project leadership, when needed, for the purpose of planning, directing, controlling, developing and maintaining the Disaster Recovery program.
Knowledge of Crisis Management, Business Continuity and Event Management practices
Understands that Disaster Recovery professionals can be called in to support test exercises or unplanned outages off regular business hours as necessary
Strong verbal and written communication skills; capable to report progress, status and other pertinent information to partners and leaders
Advanced skills in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, SharePoint) with an ability to produce professional documents
Some, but limited travel required (no more than 15%)


Required Qualifications


Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
4 years of DR experience
2 years of metrics and reporting experience
Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving


Preferred Qualifications


CBCP/CBCI preferred
PowerBI experience a plus
ITIL certification a plus
ServiceNow development experience a plus
Cloud certification a plus


Required Qualifications


Bachelor's degree
5 or more years of technical experience
Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences


Preferred Qualifications

Additional Information

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

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