Disaster Recovery Specialist

Overview

Job Title: Disaster Recovery Specialist
Location: Remote
Type: Corp to Corp/1099
Start Date: ASAP

Pay Rate: $64 - $66 per hour

Contract Length: Long Term Renewable Contract

The Disaster Recovery (DR) Specialist plays a critical role in ensuring the organization's technology infrastructure and enterprise applications are resilient and recoverable in the event of disruptions. This position demands collaboration with key stakeholders across IT Project Management Offices (PMOs), Project Managers (PMs), Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and service providers to develop, maintain, and verify comprehensive disaster recovery strategies, plans, and deliverables. Additionally, the DR Specialist ensures alignment between business continuity objectives and technical recovery capabilities by managing the end-to-end lifecycle of DR activities spanning project scoping, configuration management, and plan validation.

The role requires strategic thinking, hands-on execution capabilities, and strong coordination and communication skills to ensure all disaster recovery initiatives are successfully designed, implemented, and tested while meeting project timelines and organizational objectives.

Responsibilities

DR Support

• Coordinate with IT PMO, PMs, & SMEs on all projects impacting technology to ensure all DR requirements are met.
• Review project scope & identify DR deliverables for any projects or work related to technology
• Document scope, DR deliverables, stakeholders, systems, timelines within DREC
• Provide guidance and expectation of DR deliverables to project managers, SMEs, delivery managers, and update DR governance tasks in SN as DR deliverables are completed
• Collect and review SaaS vendor DR plans and test results to verify recovery objectives can be met. Upload documentation to associated DR plans in Archer
• Log test results within Archer
• Provide support and information to IT PMO for existing recovery objectives to be included in RFPs and guidance for any changes needed.
• Track in-flight projects and DR requirements by Project phase and deliverable status
• Attend Project meetings as needed for DR support/guidance
• Provide PMO evidence for phase gate reviews showing status of DR requirements and deliverables

Configuration Management

• Ensure all new and modified enterprise applications or services are onboarded into SNAP and have an associated DR plan in Archer
• Notify ITSM team for any potential new hardware CIs that may need to be onboarded from new projects
• Facilitate efforts to ensure application or service availability recovery objectives are aligned to appropriate business processes (BIAs) & tier is accurately assessed and documented in SNAP & Archer
• Collaborate with Technology owners on application validation efforts on a quarterly basis
• Ensure enterprise applications and services are accurately aligned to the correct ownership such as support team and manager
• Ensure enterprise applications and services ownership align to the correct DR plan preparer (SN 'Supported By' SME) and reviewer (SN 'Managed By' Mgr)
• Ensure all enterprise applications and services are associated with business processes in Archer with accurately assessed Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives.
• Make updates to Business Application records based on changes and feedback from Mgr & SMEs
• Make updates to downstream impacts within Archer (due to SNAP/Archer integration) to ensure changes are reflected within both systems
• Manage SNAP Business Application CI record validations for accuracy
• Document and track application validation status by manager for monthly DR reporting

DR Plan Management

• Ensure Application to Device mapping is maintained in Archer for DR Exercise planning.
• Data cleanup efforts in Archer for preparation of integration expansion of application/device service-mapping
• Track and coordinate DR plan updates & Test efforts to meet timelines in coordination with PMO

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field. (Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.)
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in disaster recovery planning, IT project management, IT service continuity, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of Archer experience

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Cayuse is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications, skills, and abilities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment in accordance with any applicable federal, state, or local l aw.

Pay Range

USD $64.00 - USD $66.00 /Hr.