Senior Disaster Recovery Specialist

Job title:

Senior Disaster Recovery Specialist

Company

isgSearch

Job description

Our clientOne of the world’s best pension investment funds undergoing major technology transformation and modernizationWhat’s in it for youPlay a large part in driving the Disaster Recovery program, providing the most innovative, efficient, and secure solutions. Learn new technologies and tools as the area rapidly expands.Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in Agile Scrum practices such as daily standups, backlog refinement, planning and sprint retrospectives.
• Play an active role in delivering backup and DR solutions for new and existing features supporting and collaborating with app dev, platform and infrastructure teams.
• Monitor operations of daily backups
• Assess, adapt and evolve operational strategies for DR, BC and application resilience.
• Partner with DR/BC leads on Enterprise and Governance & Risk teams.
• Educate peers & stakeholders who will use these solutions and mitigate potential issues.
• Monitor and support backup infrastructure, applications, services and network.
• Develop contingency plans in case of infrastructure failure or service interruption.
• Evaluate, recommend, and apply new concepts and technologies.
• Continuously improve corporate practices and drive automation.
• Work with existing Terraform code and should be able to write and maintain infrastructure as code.
• Use Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipelines, automate, configure and deploy resources on Azure environments.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years’ experience in Operations in progressively more senior roles
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent diploma program in Business, Computer Science, Information Management or related.
• 5+years’ experience in setting up general application backup and recovery and operations
• Technical writing and diagramming skills
• Knowledge of service and hosting solutions in a private/public cloud using IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms and their integrations.
• Knowledge of Disaster Recover technologies such as Commvault, MS 365 backups, Azure Backup, Iron Mountain (or comparable technologies).
• Knowledge of Enterprise and Cloud Technology, specifically Microsoft Azure backup services.
• Knowledge of the various techniques for meeting Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) in the cloud, based on application criticality.
• Knowledge of Database consistency & duplication. Cloud based SQL Azure or AWS RDS SQL
• Knowledge of configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform or Puppet provisioning services for provisioning and recovery of application/cloud workloads.
• Experience with databases and SQL (MS SQL, Cosmos DB and related technologies).
• General understanding of cloud networking principles, vulnerability management controls, and identity services (Azure AD preferred)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to take end-to-end ownership.

Expected salary

Location

Toronto, ON

Job date

Sat, 27 Jul 2024 06:48:04 GMT

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