Description
Disaster Recovery Manager
Duration: 12 months
Location: Flexible Cumbria/remote - Must be able to travel for meetings in Cumbria.
Advantage Resourcing are currently recruiting on behalf of our well established client for a Disaster Recovery Manager with strong leadership skills.
As a Disaster Recover Manager you will:
. Work with Business Continuity management to ensure that the disaster recovery (crisis management) and business continuity plans drive disaster recovery (DR) strategy and procedures.
. Establish and maintain the overall plans for executing all DR procedures and understand their interdependencies.
. Establish and maintain detailed DR communications and command and control plans through a change management process.
. Work with the IT technical staff to ensure that disaster recovery solutions are adequate, in place, maintained, and tested as part of the regular operational life cycle.
. Develop and understand all testing necessary for a successful DR execution.
. Schedule and lead all DR exercises.
. Provide ongoing feedback for risk management, mitigation, and prevention.
. Represent disaster recovery cost requirements in the annual budgeting process.
. Regularly report Disaster Recovery activities to upper management.
. Act as liaison for auditing and examination of disaster recovery processes.
. Carry out LFE, post disaster testing.
. Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans.
Your background
. Have a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, information protection (information security), or a related IT field is required.
. Have strong experience in IT operations implementing and supporting web and Middleware solutions in a data centre environment.
. Have experience dedicated to disaster recovery operations and management.
. Have experience managing large projects, using PMI standard methods and tools.
. Have an understanding of current recovery solutions, high availability architectures and Mainframe architectures is needed, as is knowledge of crisis communication solutions.
. Must know elementary IT network principles.
. Require excellent oral and written communication skills to convey plans, exercises, and activities.
. Must be able to interact with technical, non-technical, and management staff.
. Be familiar with business continuity program life cycle plans and source deliverables (eg, risk assessments, bias, continuity planning) is essential.
. Have a good understanding of cloud-based technologies.
Submit your CV now to be considered for this fantastic 12 month contract opportunity.
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