Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Technical Lead

Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Technical Lead

Contract duration: 12 months

Location: Dublin (3 days onsite, 2 days wfh)

DR Exercises: please note this role will require weekend work 15-20 times over the 12 months, where time can then be taken off the following days in lieu)

Responsibilities

• Serve as key liaison during a Disaster Recovery Event for Infrastructure, serving as Infra spokesperson role as soon as a threat has been identified and facilitating communications
• Have or acquire an in depth understanding of the different moving parts and functions involved in the Disaster Recovery process especially as involves Infrastructure components
• Represent the Infrastructure towers in DR meetings with IT Leadership and operational committees to communicate the status, capabilities, and issues on the Infrastructure side
• Apply in-depth or broad technical knowledge to provide maintenance solutions across one or more technology areas (e.g., database administration)
• Integrate technical expertise and business understanding to coordinate / envision superior solutions for the Infrastructure components
• Assess and coordinate high availability and seamless failover resiliency mechanisms across multiple layers of the application and infrastructure stacks
• Manage the DR Plans and DR Testing of those plans to ensure all are updated/tested well within the due dates without extension
• Demonstrate technical expertise and exert influence outside of immediate Infrastructure tower
• Coordinate and drive innovative team solutions to complex problems
• Coordinate DR for new Infrastructure technologies
• Service as the POC for DR Test / incident management events across the Infrastructure towers
• Assist in integration of solutions into the DR automation program, reducing overall recovery time for Infrastructure services
• Coordinate innovation and technology experiments in private, public and hybrid cloud at enterprise scale
• Maintain an effective technical network across technical SMEs and architects for multiple service areas
• Analyze high volumes of technical and operational data during a disaster recovery event
• Ingest and communicate program metrics / issues with the greater Infrastructure team to allow for data-driven risk management and process improvements
• Sign off on Infrastructure procedural documentation, Disaster Recovery Plans, training modules, and other disaster recovery artifacts for quality assurance
• Coordinate and help to guide the implementation of a comprehensive testing strategy enabled through data analytics and automation
• Manage the Infrastructure remediation review program to ensure gaps identified by other functions and stakeholders are appropriately addressed
• Identify and remediate Infrastructure gaps identified by the control teams or audit, or through internal disaster recovery assessments
• Share key insights and learnings from participation in Infrastructure meetings to share with management

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Computer Science or a related discipline
• Operating as an Infrastructure technical engineer at enterprise scale
• Appropriate level of DR experience
• Advanced technical problem-solving skills
• Practical experience in both technology infrastructure and application development architectures
• Infrastructure and service architecture/engineering experience, including functional and technical requirements gathering, and solution development
• Strong system analysis and service development experience
• Practical experience operating in an Agile development environment
• Automation experience
• Financial or Regulatory domain experience a plus
• VMWare vRO experience a plus
• Service Now experience
• Familiarity with Fusion a plus

Knowledge/Skills

• Experience in creating Disaster Recovery Plans and/or BCP and DR Plans
• Demonstrated understanding and knowledge of security concepts such as Replication and Backups, Enterprise Architecture, Authentication, Access Management, and Network Segmentation
• Experienced in conducting testing exercises for Disaster/BCP/Cyber Plans
• Well-versed in disaster security industry best practices and regulatory and compliance frameworks
• Highly motivated, energetic self-starter who takes ownership of issues and drives them to resolution
• Good organizational skills - manages and prioritizes multiple tasks across different time horizons within deadlines
• Cooperative, and collegial manner to be able to flex to wide range of stakeholders and in high-stakes situations
• Strong decision-making skills
• Strong analytical, problem solving and process re-engineering skills
• Excellent project management skills; oral and written communication
• Skills in translating broad strategic intent into tactical plans and directions are essential
• Applies broad industry knowledge and awareness
• Negotiates with senior leaders across the business