IT Analyst; Azure & Disaster Recovery Testing

IT Analyst (Azure & Disaster Recovery Testing)

Title: IT Analyst – Azure & Disaster Recovery Testing

Location: Charlotte, NC 28202 (Hybrid – 2 to 3 days onsite weekly)

Pay Rate: $30.00 – $38.00 / hour W2

Duration: 12-Month Contract + Long-Term Extensions

Employment

Terms:


STRICTLY W2 ONLY. No C2C, no third parties, and no referrals.

We are seeking a highly organized IT Analyst with 3 to 4 years of hands‑on technical experience to coordinate, execute, and validate Disaster Recovery (DR) testing across a portfolio of cloud‑hosted applications and systems.

As our enterprise continues to expand its cloud footprint, this role will serve as a key technical coordinator helping execute application recovery testing in secondary/DR environments. You do not need to be a deep cloud architect, but you must have a solid foundation in Azure Administration concepts and hands‑on experience driving IT recovery testing cycles .

You will manage a portfolio of 20 to 30 individual applications—driving each independent DR testing cycle from initial environment scheduling and execution through post-test validation and sign-off.

• DR Recovery Testing Execution:
  Help coordinate and execute disaster recovery testing for 20 to 30 enterprise applications in DR/cloud environments, ensuring all recovery steps, execution logs, and validation metrics meet program standards.
• Azure Environment Coordination:
  Utilize basic Azure administration knowledge to navigate cloud environments, review application dependencies, and verify resource readiness prior to recovery execution.
• Stakeholder & Bridge Facilitation:
  Serve as the central technical coordinator between application owners, infrastructure teams, cloud engineers, and business partners. Lead DR planning sessions, live execution bridge calls, and post-recovery retrospectives.
• Compliance & Evidence Tracking:
  Collect and track technical DR testing evidence, failover/failback documentation, action plans, and regulatory readiness artifacts to ensure full organizational compliance.
• Inventory & Dashboard Management:
  Maintain accurate tracking dashboards, application recovery metrics, and schedule timelines across multiple concurrent testing cycles.
• Issue Resolution:
  Drive cross-functional troubleshooting when recovery bottlenecks, environment issues, or scheduling conflicts arise during live test cycles.

• Experience:
  
  3 to 4 years of hands‑on IT, Technical Systems, or Application Support experience operating as an IT Analyst, Technical Coordinator, Systems Analyst, or Junior Cloud Administrator.
• Disaster Recovery (DR) Focus:
  Demonstrated hands‑on experience with IT disaster recovery testing, application failover/recovery validation , or operational continuity testing.
• Azure Familiarity:
  Practical working knowledge of Azure Administration concepts (e.g., Azure VM management, basic identity/IAM, cloud storage, and virtual networking).
• Azure
  
  Certifications:
  
  Active Azure certifications (such as AZ-900 , AZ-104 , or AZ-305 ) are preferred; willingness to obtain core Azure certifications during the engagement is acceptable.
• Superb Organizational Acumen:
  Ability to manage 20 to 30 distinct, concurrent application DR testing timelines simultaneously without missing key milestones.
• Strong Communication:
  Excellent verbal and written skills to coordinate across distributed technical teams, lead live execution bridge calls, and report recovery statuses clearly to leadership.

• Long-Term Stability: 12-month initial contract with strong likelihood of long-term extensions.
• High-Visibility Initiative:
  Gain direct exposure to enterprise-scale cloud resiliency and disaster recovery operations.
• Hybrid Flexibility:
  Balanced hybrid schedule…