What are the responsibilities and job description for the Disaster Recovery Specialist position at Transcend Business Solutions, LLC?
Job Description
Title: Disaster Recovery Specialist
Remote with Ability to travel to Client work sites located throughout the entire State of Maryland- Travel will be rare as most of the work will be done remotely
Candidate must be local to Baltimore, MD
US Citizens only
Duties and Responsibilities:
Title: Disaster Recovery Specialist
Remote with Ability to travel to Client work sites located throughout the entire State of Maryland- Travel will be rare as most of the work will be done remotely
Candidate must be local to Baltimore, MD
US Citizens only
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Review of Site’s Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
- Review for accuracy and sufficiency
- Are all current critical systems and services identified
- Does it accurately identify current personnel and key positions
- Does it include all current hardware, software, applications, etc.
- Detailed systems and architecture diagrams?
- Meet with Site Leadership and key personnel to perform
- Risk assessment and business impact analyses for identified critical services and systems
- Establish RTO and RPO for critical services and systems
- Understand and incorporate site’s non-IT DRP and COOP plans
- Create a new IT DRP, meeting ISO 27001 standards and includes:
- Current IT inventory
- Data back-up and verification SOPs
- Detailed semi-annual DRP testing program
- Business resumption plan
- Continuity of operations plan
- Incident management plan (IMP)
- Disaster recovery plan
- RACI charts for all DRP and COOP activities
- Plan for annual updates to DRP and COOP by local IT team
- Present and Review IT DRP and COOP to Site Leadership
- Edit plan per leadership feedback
- Thoroughly review finalized DRP and COOP with site IT team
- Supply copy of finalized DRP and COOP plans to OET Asst CIO for Infrastructure and Operations (Asst CIO I&O)
- Perform first semi-annual test of DRP and COOP components
- Work with site leadership and IT team to select at least 2 components of the DRP and COOP to test
- Perform test with local IT team
- Submit results and after-action report of testing to site’s IT team, site’s Leadership and OET Asst CIO I&O
- Ability to travel to MDH work sites located throughout the entire State of Maryland
- Minimum 5 years' experience implementing and managing disaster recovery and business continuity management programs
- Experience working in the government sector
- Current certification in at least one of the following certifications:
- Certified Disaster Recovery Engineer (CDRE)
- Certified Emergency Manager (CEM)
- Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP)
- Certified Business Continuity Vendor (CBCV)
- Working technical knowledge of current systems software, hardware, protocols, and standards
