BUSINESS CONTINUITY STRATEGY PROFESSIONAL

This is a lead position in the Disaster Recovery Management team that is managing the Recovery service for a Clients IT environment. The role primarily involves lead and support Recovery activities plan maintenance, oversee and conduct DR exercise Planning, execution coordination during an exercise or true-life recovery invocation activities for a heterogeneous technology environment.

This role seeks strong Coordination and managerial skills with multiple delivery teams to monitor day-to-day recovery readiness and preparedness of the environment and Reporting; coordinating activities during recovery activities execution during drills exercise and disaster declaration scenario.

Work Experience
Overall IT professional experience 10+ year
At least 8+ year Disaster Recovery Management, Planning, Coordination and Management experience

Responsibilities
Lead and Coordinate to Plan & exercising of recovery testing for life science and health care customers
Ability to perform various kinds of drills ranging from tabletop, application level, datacenter failover.
Excellent understanding of recovery strategies and various Infrastructure Technologies Like Storage, Backup, Networks, Security and Operating Systems (WINTEL, Linux, Solaris).
Experience in identification of Technology domain causing incident or issues during a disaster recovery exercise.
Excellent Understanding of Recovery & Resilience management life cycle.
Experience in determining the adequate test environment drill & test plan requirements.
Manage the various technology teams to develop drill Test Plans and Test Evaluation Summaries across heterogeneous infrastructure layers
Lead efforts for Testing DR environment for datacenter failover and failback
Drill execution co-ordination, incident / issues tracking during drills
Experience in recovery testing data collection, analysis and reporting with recommendation of alterations to improve recovery performance
Leadership and Management Reporting and presentation skills
Manage the team of Disaster Recovery Consultants and customer handling skills
Well affluent in tools that enable DR replication and automation
Able to drive customer on a streamlined DR approach for Business as Usual sustainability and readiness
Streamline Disaster Recovery process and operations for customer
Define recovery testing calendar and engage in conversations with customers Application and Business teams
To the extent that customer does not have documented Disaster Recovery plans, develop and implement process for documentation and maintenance.
Working knowledge on Cloud based disaster recovery process and testing
Update / refresh the business impact analysis / application impact analysis process by coordination with system owners
Build and document business continuity plans for HCL provided services from HCL facility and locations

Skills and Specifications
Ability to analysis critical factors impacting the recovery activities and success.
Should have undergone specialized training / Certification in Disaster Recovery & Management.
Task Coordination and Project Management skills
Network / Security / Storage / Backup Technology related experience.
Virtualization technology experience would be added advantage.
Communication & Presentation Skills.

Education & Qualifications
Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field.
At least 8+ years of experience in computing or related area with a focus on technology and management.
Professional certifications such as ABCP/CBCP/ BS25999 would be added advantage.
Technology related Certifications will be an added advantage.