DET - Senior - IT Disaster Recovery Specialist - GDSNF

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Job Title: IT Disaster Recovery Specialist

Experience: 6 to 10 Years

Job Summary:

We are seeking a skilled and proactive IT Disaster Recovery (DR) Specialist with 6–10 years of experience in IT infrastructure resilience and recovery planning. The ideal candidate will also have hands-on experience in any Database, enabling him to support database-related aspects of DR planning and testing. This role ensures the organization's critical IT systems can recover rapidly and effectively in the event of an outage or disaster.

Key Responsibilities:

Primary roles and responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and maintain IT Disaster Recovery strategies, plans, and runbooks for critical systems and application services.
• Conduct regular risk assessments and business impact analyses (BIA) to identify recovery priorities.
• Coordinate and lead Disaster Recovery exercises, failover testing, and tabletop exercises.
• Work closely with application, infrastructure, and business teams to validate various recovery time objectives.
• Maintain documentation for DR procedures, policies, and communication plans.
• Monitor compliance with DR policies and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with vendors and cloud service providers for offsite DR solutions.
  
  

Additional roles and responsibilities:

• Support and maintain database backups, snapshots, and replication required for DR readiness.
• Collaborate with DBAs during DR drills to validate DB failover and integrity checks.
• Ensure alignment of database high availability (HA) and DR strategies.
  
  

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalant in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 4–5 years of hands-on experience in IT Disaster Recovery planning and testing.
• Exposure to industry frameworks such as ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, or ITIL.
• Experience with DR tools and platforms (e.g., Veeam, Zerto, SRM, Commvault, Azure Site Recovery, etc.).
• Working knowledge of RDBMS platforms such as MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, or PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with backup and replication technologies for databases.
• Understanding of virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V) and cloud DR strategies (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong documentation and coordination skills.
• Ability to work independently and cross-functionally.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant certifications (e.g., CBCP, ITIL Foundation, Microsoft/AWS/Azure certifications).
• Experience in scripting for automation (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, or Python).
• Exposure to enterprise monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Zabbix, Nagios, SolarWinds).
  
  

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