ExecRecruitment
Disaster Recovery Support Specialist
ExecRecruitment, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70123
ExecRecruitment is a global professional services provider and contingency staffing company. Our main objective is to source top talent and support professional growth.One of our direct clients is actively seeking a Disaster Recovery Support Specialist to join their team.Job Title: Disaster Recovery Support SpecialistLocation: RemoteDuration: 6 months+ extension
Job Duties
The duties of a Disaster Recovery Support Specialist include, but are not limited to:
• Assist in the coordination and establishment of disaster recovery programs and business resumption planning across mainframe and client server platforms;• Coordinate and monitor simulation testing across all platforms;• Design and administer programs to include policies, standards, guidelines, training programs, and a viable quality assurance process for disaster recovery;• Facilitate the preparation of an organization-wide business resumption plan;• Maintain and improve the IT Service Continuity processes and tools used to protect critical business processes from the potential damage or loss that may be caused as a result of a disruption to the service;• Develop and maintain supporting infrastructure and application IT Service Continuity recovery plans and risk mitigation strategies;• Assess change efforts that may impact State’s ability to maintain resiliency;• Identify likely contingency scenarios that may jeopardize State’s system availability; develop and maintain response plans procedures to respond to these scenarios; train employees and service providers to ensure their readiness to these scenarios;• Plan and coordinate disaster recovery tests including actual failover events, emergency response simulations, tabletop exercises, and documentation reviews; measure capability against defined program KPIs, processes, procedures, and policies to manage State’s IT Service Continuity ability to meet defined business requirements;Monitor and report on ability to meet performance targets and service levels; monitor and report investigation results of breaches of availability targets and service non-availability, and track and report on required remedial action;• Report on tracking KPIs and dashboards to provide management with data that provides measures of success.
Job Duties
The duties of a Disaster Recovery Support Specialist include, but are not limited to:
• Assist in the coordination and establishment of disaster recovery programs and business resumption planning across mainframe and client server platforms;• Coordinate and monitor simulation testing across all platforms;• Design and administer programs to include policies, standards, guidelines, training programs, and a viable quality assurance process for disaster recovery;• Facilitate the preparation of an organization-wide business resumption plan;• Maintain and improve the IT Service Continuity processes and tools used to protect critical business processes from the potential damage or loss that may be caused as a result of a disruption to the service;• Develop and maintain supporting infrastructure and application IT Service Continuity recovery plans and risk mitigation strategies;• Assess change efforts that may impact State’s ability to maintain resiliency;• Identify likely contingency scenarios that may jeopardize State’s system availability; develop and maintain response plans procedures to respond to these scenarios; train employees and service providers to ensure their readiness to these scenarios;• Plan and coordinate disaster recovery tests including actual failover events, emergency response simulations, tabletop exercises, and documentation reviews; measure capability against defined program KPIs, processes, procedures, and policies to manage State’s IT Service Continuity ability to meet defined business requirements;Monitor and report on ability to meet performance targets and service levels; monitor and report investigation results of breaches of availability targets and service non-availability, and track and report on required remedial action;• Report on tracking KPIs and dashboards to provide management with data that provides measures of success.