Disaster Recovery Analyst

Description

Demonstrate proficient skills in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery support. Provide for the coordination and management of the disaster recovery program across mainframe and client/server platforms for all business functions. Provide guidance to corporate partners who participate in developing, implementing, maintaining, and executing the Disaster Recovery Plans.Implement the disaster recovery planning process. This would include forecasting and tracking mechanisms across all business units to facilitate timely accommodation of future recovery requirements & improvement opportunities.Possess the ability to map changes to IT specifications to ensure our continued ability to recover in the event of an unforeseen disruption to facilities, technology systems or applications and help design suitable mitigation procedures. Identify impact resulting from disruptions and disaster scenarios that can affect the company's Regional operations. Assess strategies that can be used to quantify and qualify such impacts. Establish critical functions, their recovery priorities, and interdependencies so that recovery time objectives can be met. Determine and guide the selection of alternative business recovery operating strategies for information technologies within the recovery time objective while maintaining the organization's critical functions. Work with Change Control and other technology management and staff to assess need for any security reconfigurations (minor or significant).Provide 24 hour oncall support for any emergency which may require activation of all or part of the DR plans. Monitor programs to be in compliance with governing/auditing guidelines. Ensure corporate disaster recovery standards meet contractual obligations of customer/client base.