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Our direct client is looking for a Disaster Recovery Expert, Azure, Windows, Linux for a Hybrid Long term contract position in Washington, DC.
Note:
- Only submit local candidates to DMV region
- Hybrid position - candidate will be required to be on-site 3x/week in the near future
Job Description:
Strategy & Planning:
- Conduct risk assessments and business impact analyses to identify vulnerable areas within the company s critical functions.
- Recommend and implement disaster avoidance strategies and impact reduction strategies.
- Confer with IT department and other key personnel to determine if changes in hardware or software configurations affect disaster recovery plan outcomes.
- Direct and coordinate staff efforts to formulate department-specific disaster recovery plans.
- Conduct research on emerging products, services, protocols, and standards in support of contingency planning and development efforts.
Requisition & Deployment:
- Interact and negotiate with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to obtain protection services and products.
- Download and test new disaster recovery software and/or technologies.
- Recommend, and where necessary, schedule and perform security improvements, upgrades, and/or purchases.
Operational Management:
- Develop and establish disaster recovery procedures for the restoration of mission-critical business applications in the event of natural disasters, technical failures, power outages, and human interference.
- Manage and coordinate all aspects of actual recovery plan implementation and efforts, including initial emergency response, recovery procedures, and business resumption processes.
- Develop, implement, maintain, and oversee enforcement of policies, procedures and associated plans for disaster recovery administration and business continuity based on industry-standard best practices.
- Inform and train staff members on their responsibilities concerning business continuity procedures and emergency response.
- Ensure that company equipment, systems, services, and facility are compliant with disaster recovery plans and procedures.
- Ensure the preservation of vital information, data, or media through diligent maintenance of hard copies and backup equipment.
- Continually conduct simulations and test runs of system disruptions in order to revise and perfect plans.
- Assess need for any security reconfigurations (minor or significant) and execute them if required.
- Where appropriate, recommend, schedule, and apply fixes, security patches, and any other measures required in the event of business disruption.
- Investigate and select locations for off-site storage of data and backups.
- Keep current with emerging security alerts and issues.
- Manage and/or provide guidance to junior members of the team
Education:
- Master s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science OR Bachelor's degree with a combination of education and successful work experience (10 years)
- DR/BCP Certification in specialized areas (Required)
Qualifications:
- Minimum (3) years of experience in design and maintenance of public/Gov cloud solutions with a focus on Microsoft Azure (Gov preferred) IaaS, PaaS service like Database services, Kubernetes etc.
- Minimum (3) years of experience providing IT administration and/or engineering services managing Windows and Linux Servers and Services.
- Broad hands-on knowledge of disaster recovery planning and other industry-standard techniques and practices.
- In-depth knowledge of all types of disasters, natural or otherwise, and their effect on company technologies.
- Working technical knowledge of current systems software, hardware, protocols, and standards
- Strong knowledge of network administration/protocols
- Solid project management skills.
- Knowledge of and experience with property and casualty insurance.
- Knowledge of applicable practices and laws relating to data privacy and protection.
- Excellent technical architecture skills, enabling the creation of future-proof, complex global solutions and Strong Experience across Applications Migration (On-Perm VMware) to Azure (Gov Cloud Preferred).
- Knowledge of network technologies as they relate to AWS.
- Knowledge of security policies, network security, data security and security event management to adopt cloud security services.
- Intuition and keen instincts to pre-empt attacks.
- Excellent written communication skills.
- Excellent listening skills.
- Strong interpersonal and oral communication skills.
- High level of analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to conduct research into recovery and security issues and products as required.
- Strong understanding of the organization s goals and objectives.
- Highly self-motivated and directed.
- Strong organizational skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
Skill Matrix:
- Design/maintenance of Microsoft Azure IaaS, PaaS like Database services, Kubernetes etc. - Required - 3 Years
- Experience providing IT administration and/or engineering services managing Windows and Linux Servers and Services. - Required - 3 Years
- Strong Experience across Applications Migration (On-Perm VMware) to Azure (Gov Cloud Preferred). - Required
- Broad hands-on knowledge of disaster recovery planning and other industry-standard techniques and practices. - Required
- Knowledge of network technologies as they relate to AWS. - Required
- Knowledge of security policies, network security, data security and security event management to adopt cloud security services.- Required
Question 1: Is your candidate willing and able to report on-site to DC office 3x/week? On-site requirements can be subject to change.
Question 2: Only DMV-based candidates will be considered. Where is the candidate located? Please provide City/State.
Location: Hybrid (3 days/week), 1101 4th St. SW, Washington DC 20004
Type: Long term contract
Please send resume to "jobs at etechnovision dot com" with B3962B in Subject for immediate consideration.