What are the responsibilities and job description for the Disaster Recovery Specialist position at KTek Resourcing?
Ability to build and improve upon existing DR and BC Program components including Governance, Policies, Documentation, Plans, Procedures, Reporting, Metrics and Testing.
• Disaster Recovery Training, Certification or practice experience in plan development and DR Testing
• Must be able to work flexible hours, including overtime, when necessary (during test exercises or actual events).
• Familiarity and experience with Archer BCM is desired.
• Certification or similar work experience required (CBCP, MBCI)
• Ability to initiate and prioritize multiple threads of work efforts and deadlines.
• Must be able to effectively communicate with customer and internal project management regarding status, issues and risks to project.
• Knowledge of the applications and/or technology infrastructure that the project is addressing.
• Must have some technical acumen, that can include:
1. Core Infrastructure Services (OS, DB, Replication, Data Protection, especially as it relates to Recovery solutions and testing)
2. Storage Technologies: Strong experience in storage vendor BC/DR, Disc Storage and replication solutions: e.g., EMC products (SRDF, RecoverPoint, Networker, Avamar, Data Domain), Network Appliance, NetApp.
3. Virtualization: Experience with the leading virtualization technology vendors- Design, implementation and architecture experience a plus.
4. Cloud Architecture, Migration and Implementation
o Excellent writing and verbal communication skills required.
o Ability to work successfully across organizational lines and influence outcomes.
o Strong analytical skills, including change impact analysis to existing solutions.
o Must be able to communicate effectively and tactfully with all levels of personnel, both in person and on the telephone.
o Must be able to pay close attention to complex detail and understand written and oral instructions.
o Must be able to organize and schedule work effectively.
o Must be able to work well under time constraints.
o Must be able to handle multiple tasks with changing priorities, communicating changes in scope and schedule to all parties concerned.
o Must be service-oriented.
o Must be able to work independently.
o Must be able to maintain confidentiality.
Candidate will be responsible for assisting customers:
In developing recovery strategies for IT Disaster scenarios by:
1. Analyze resource dependencies and interfaces
2. Identify resumption strategies
3. Consider alternative methods for business resumption
4. Select optimum strategy
5. Develop optimum costing
6. Provide guidelines for implementation
Develop and create resumption plans:
1. Technical
2. Crisis/Incident
3. Response
4. Downtime procedures
5. Restore procedures
6. Develop escalation procedures/ flowcharts
7. Obtain approvals for the DR Plan(s)
Years of Experience:
9.00 Years of Experience
