Senior Disaster Recovery Specialist

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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.