Principal IT Analyst, Disaster Recovery

***We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full time role***

A prestigious company is on the search for a Principal IT Analyst, Disaster Recovery.  This position will focus on Disaster Recovery, ransomware recovery, KPIs monitoring, technical writing, and experience with tools such as SRM and/or Zerto.  They will plan exercises and work across the IT enterprise in infrastructure and applications. 

Responsibilities:

• Strong understanding of Ransomware recovery and architectural of Isolated Recovery Environments
• Subject matter expertise in IT Disaster Recovery with a minimum of 3 years of Disaster Recovery experience
• 7+ years of experience in an Information Technology discipline
• 5+ years of experience with developing / testing recovering strategies for cloud (IaaS / SaaS) based applications
• Working knowledge of recovery tools such as SRM and Zerto
• Strong project manager skills with 5+ years of hands on experience
• 5 + years of experience with automation and orchestration tools for recovering applications at alternate locations
• Experience developing business impact analysis documents
• Strategic mindset to lead recovery strategy planning efforts
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex integrated disaster recovery exercises
• Thorough knowledge of data management in order to assist in the preparation of recovery procedures
• Coordinates with various information technology and business groups to identify critical systems and dependencies, and the potential vulnerabilities and risks that could result in catastrophic impact.
• Coordinates and executes Ransomware Rebuild simulation tests, documents results recovery time capabilities, issues, and resolutions through post-testing analysis.
• Serves as tertiary back-up during tabletop exercises or actual catastrophic disaster recovery or business continuity events.
• Supports the execution of a specific IT process (i.e. Vendor Management, Asset Management, Telecommunications, Business Applications, Service Delivery, etc.) in response to business needs and requests.
• Define, track and monitor KPIs
• Identify and mitigate risks
• Collaborates with business and IT stakeholders to identify, analyze, understand and prioritize activities by business value and urgency.
• Develops consultative partnerships with internal teams and leaders to understand their strategic objectives, key performance indicators and reporting requirements.
• Establish and collect KPI to measure business value delivered by projects and solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Proven experience within the disaster recovery field
• 3+ years leading medium to complex multi-million-dollar systems development programs
• 3+ years of experience with Disaster Recovery Planning Software and tools
• Experience with Office 365, Teams and SharePoint