Roles and Responsibilities:

1. Disaster Recovery Planning &amp; Implementation:

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<li style="text-align:start;">Design, implement, and maintain disaster recovery (DR) plans for the organizations IT infrastructure, ensuring business continuity.</li>
</ul>

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<li style="text-align:start;">Assess and analyze business impact, defining recovery objectives (RTO and RPO) and aligning them with organizational goals.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Regularly test disaster recovery procedures through simulations and mock drills to ensure operational readiness.</li>
</ul>

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<li style="text-align:start;">Work with different teams to identify critical systems and services that need to be included in the disaster recovery plan.</li>
</ul>

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<li style="text-align:start;">Evaluate DR tools and solutions, focusing on AWS-based services, to ensure a scalable and cost-effective recovery solution.</li>
</ul>

2. Technology Resiliency and Business Continuity:

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<li style="text-align:start;">Ensure that all IT systems are designed with resiliency in mind, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.</li>
</ul>

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<li style="text-align:start;">Implement and maintain cloud-based disaster recovery strategies using AWS services such as Amazon EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, and more.</li>
</ul>

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<li style="text-align:start;">Collaborate with architecture teams to ensure resiliency and continuity measures are embedded into infrastructure design.</li>
</ul>

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<li style="text-align:start;">Oversee and optimize backup strategies, ensuring that systems can be quickly restored with minimal data loss.</li>
</ul>

3. Automation &amp; Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

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<li style="text-align:start;">Automate disaster recovery processes and workflows using modern DevOps tools such as AWS CloudFormation, Tidal, Terraform, Ansible, or other automation frameworks.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to streamline the provisioning and management of recovery environments.</li>
</ul>

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<li style="text-align:start;">Use SumoLogic, Dynatrace, AWS Lambda, CloudWatch, and other automation tools to proactively monitor and respond to system events or failures.</li>
</ul>

4. Documentation &amp; Reporting:

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<li style="text-align:start;">Maintain clear and up-to-date documentation of disaster recovery plans, runbooks, and processes.</li>
</ul>

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<li style="text-align:start;">Provide detailed post-disaster recovery reports, outlining the effectiveness of the recovery process and any lessons learned.</li>
</ul>

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<li style="text-align:start;">Report on resiliency metrics, recovery objectives, and automation progress to senior leadership.</li>
</ul>

6. Incident Response &amp; Post-Incident Analysis:

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<li style="text-align:start;">Lead the response during actual disaster recovery events, coordinating with IT and business units to ensure a smooth recovery process.</li>
</ul>

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<li style="text-align:start;">Perform post-incident analysis to identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and improve recovery plans.</li>
</ul>

7. Collaboration &amp; Training:

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<li style="text-align:start;">Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including IT operations, security, engineering, and business continuity.</li>
</ul>

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<li style="text-align:start;">Provide training and awareness on disaster recovery procedures to staff, helping them understand the importance of disaster recovery and their roles during recovery scenarios.</li>
</ul>

Skills &amp; Qualifications:

Required:

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<li>Disaster Recovery &amp; Business Continuity Expertise:</li>
</ul>

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<li>Proven experience in designing, implementing, and managing disaster recovery plans for both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Experience with automation tools such as Tidal, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Shell, etc.) to automate processes and workflows.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Ability to lead recovery efforts, coordinate between various teams, and communicate effectively during high-pressure situations.</li>
</ul>

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<li>AWS Certified Practitioner and Solutions Architect</li>
</ul>

Preferred:

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<li>Proficient in monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning using AWS and third-party monitoring tools like SumoLogic, Dynatrace and such others.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Strong understanding of IT resilience, high availability architectures, RTO/RPO objectives, and best practices for disaster recovery.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Knowledge of DevOps principles, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD), and configuration management.</li>
</ul>

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<li>ITIL Foundation or similar business continuity certifications.</li>
</ul>

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<li>Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) or similar DR/BCP certification. </li>
</ul>

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