Sr, Disaster Recovery Analyst

Sr. Disaster Recovery

The position focuses on enabling the IT Disaster Recovery process and providing expertise in Disaster Recovery (D/R) concepts, plan authoring, validation, and testing of critical systems. The role is highly focused on the development, delivery, and maintenance of technical and complex Ransomware planning and the support of simulation tests and tabletop exercises.

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• Proven experience within the disaster recovery field.
• 3+ years leading medium to complex multi-million-dollar systems development programs.
• 3+ years of experience with disaster recovery planning software and tools.
• Experience with Office 365, Teams, and SharePoint.

• Strong understanding of ransomware recovery and architectural design of Isolated Recovery Environments.
• Subject matter expertise in IT Disaster Recovery with a minimum of 3 years of disaster recovery experience.
• 5+ years of experience in an Information Technology discipline.
• 3+ years of experience with developing/testing recovery strategies for cloud (IaaS/SaaS) based applications.
• Working knowledge of recovery tools such as SRM and Zerto.
• Strong project manager skills with 5+ years of hands-on experience.
• 3+ years of experience with automation and orchestration tools for recovering applications at alternate locations.
• Experience developing business impact analysis documents.
• Strategic mindset to lead recovery strategy planning efforts.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex integrated disaster recovery exercises.
• Thorough knowledge of data management to assist in the preparation of recovery procedures.
• Strong ability to build effective relationships with clients and colleagues.

• Coordination and
  
  Risk Management:
  
  Coordinate with various IT and business groups to identify critical systems and dependencies, and potential vulnerabilities and risks that could result in catastrophic impact. Execute Ransomware Rebuild simulation tests, document results, recovery time capabilities, issues, and resolutions through post-testing analysis. Serve as tertiary backup during tabletop exercises or actual catastrophic disaster recovery or business continuity events.
• Data Analysis and Reporting:
  
  Gather, analyze, and interpret data. Submit reports to relevant department heads and management. Identify patterns and trends in the analyzed data. Help management and other teams achieve business goals and needs. Formulate procedural manuals if required. Track and reconcile data.
• Process and KPI Management:
  
  Support the execution of specific IT processes (i.e., Vendor Management, Asset Management, Telecommunications, Business Applications, Service Delivery) in response to business needs and requests. Define, track, and monitor KPIs. Identify and mitigate risks.
• Collaboration and Communication:
  
  Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to identify, analyze, understand, and prioritize activities by business value and urgency. Develop consultative partnerships with internal teams and leaders to understand their strategic objectives, KPIs, and reporting requirements. Support communications, meetings, and other collaborations to effectively perform work and understand, resolve, and/or mitigate risks, issues, obstacles, and conflicts. Collaborate cross-functionally to enhance overall delivery of reporting across business units and within the department.
  
  Establish and collect KPIs to measure business value delivered by projects and solutions. Analyze and interpret information for planning and control purposes. Present to leadership recommendations on opportunities.
• Training and Process Reinforcement:
  
  Lead the education and training of end users, working to increase end-user proficiency and adoption of implemented solutions. Understand, communicate, and reinforce standard process concepts and methodology within the ETP organization. Serve as liaison across teams. Develop opportunities to automate ETP processes and functions. Communicate systems and procedural changes to end users through excellent written and oral…