About the Role
We are seeking a Disaster Recovery Expert – Supervisor/Lead with over 5 years of experience, specifically in banking or financial services. This role is crucial in leading and overseeing Disaster Recovery (DR), IT Resilience, and Business Continuity activities for critical banking systems and technology services.
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain DR strategies, plans, procedures, and recovery runbooks.
- Define and maintain Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for critical systems.
- Lead Disaster Recovery drills, simulations, failover/failback processes, and recovery testing.
- Coordinate with infrastructure, network, cybersecurity, application, database, cloud, and business teams.
- Ensure DR environments, backup, replication, high availability (HA), and recovery capabilities are operational and compliant.
- Conduct risk assessments, Business Impact Analysis (BIA), and root-cause analysis for DR issues.
- Ensure alignment with banking regulations, audit requirements, and IT governance.
- Manage DR vendors and provide regular readiness and risk reports to management.
- Lead and mentor DR and technical teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, Infrastructure, or Business Continuity.
- Mandatory experience in the banking sector.
- Previous experience in a Lead or Supervisor role is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of DR architecture, data centers, cloud technology, virtualization, backup, replication, and high availability.
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
