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Zycron has joined with a Utilities company in search of a Disaster Recovery Coordinator. This position is responsible for the activities necessary to enable the IT organization to prepare for and recover from major technology disruptions. These activities include recovery from both cyber attacks and disasters impacting organizational systems and data. This person will work with multiple teams in the planning, implementation, and execution of DR processes that will ensure the protection and recoverability of our mission critical applications and data.
Responsibilities:- Lead the development of best practices, effective processes and procedures for disaster recovery
- Work in conjunction with IT application teams, Infrastructure support teams, 3rd Party IT Service Providers and business counterparts to develop strategies and plan activities to test and ensure adequate recovery of IT assets.
- Coordinate activities to support the management and continuous improvement of Technology Disaster Recovery solutions and Crisis Management plans.
- Support BCP exercises, corporate education, and awareness activities.
- Conducts Business Impact Analysis for various departments and functions, analyzing potential business impact of unpredictable business interruptions such as natural disasters, security breach, etc.
- Develops RPOs, RTOs, and other measures as appropriate and works with other IT teams to identify and implement cost effective solutions to meet the needs of the organization.
- Aligns with our Business, Technology & incident management teams on annual assessments that ensure recovery capabilities specified in BIAs (i.e., RTO, RPO) can be achieved along with driving the closure of all identified gaps.
- Actively participates in incident response.
- Collaborate Corporate Communications on internal and external communications during events.
- 5+ years Information Technology and technology life-cycle management experience
- Conceptual knowledge of IT support areas
- Subject matter expertise in Technology Disaster Recovery best practices, methodologies, trends, tools, and issue identification
- Proven ability to work in a team environment – approachable, maintains peer relationships, promotes documentation, shares knowledge with others.
- Experience managing recovery strategies for hybrid (on-prem and System as a Service) required cloud (IaaS / SaaS) based applications a plus
- Must be an effective communicator and facilitator able to lead cross functional teams under high stress situations.
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
- Vendor management of external DR service providers