Senior Disaster Recovery Specialist

Reference #: 7965
Location: Ottawa
Type: Sub-contract

Donna Cona Inc. is currently seeking a Senior Disaster Recovery Specialist for one of our key clients.

Candidate MUST have the following:

• Minimum five (5) years of hands-on experience in IT Disaster Recovery design, planning, and implementation in mid-sized to large enterprises across Cloud and On-Prem environments;
• Minimum five (5) years of progressive experience within the areas of technology risk, compliance, business continuity, disaster recovery or governance;
• Experience with IT Disaster Recovery program development including critical elements such as Business Impact Analysis, Recoverability Assessment, Business and Technology Strategy Development, Planning, Process Creation, Testing and Governance;
• Previous experience working on implementing multiple complex enterprise level changes programs, creating standards, promoting and measuring adoption;
• Experience with application architectures, middleware, and technology platform architectures (cloud, on-premises, and hybrid);
• Excellent problem-solving skills;
• Ability to work effectively under pressure;
• Effective communication skills (verbal, written);
• Sufficient understanding of technology risk regulatory and industry best practices (ServiceNow, COBIT, NIST, ISO standards);
• Experience with ServiceNow GRC, Fusion or other GRC platforms is an asset.

Candidate should have the following demonstrated experience:

• Overseeing the coordinated recovery testing work plans;
• Ensuring the existence and development of disaster recovery plans (DRPs);
• Exercising and testing of recovery plans (tabletops, failover) to ensure that recovery of applications meet the defined RTO/RPO objectives;
• Ensuring the development, design, execution, and maintenance of the Disaster Recovery practice area for Client technology;
• Supporting Line 2 in their review and challenge of 1st line risk processes;
• Building and maintaining a backlog of technology risk remediation work supported by a governance lifecycle and the implementation of management tools supported by technology;
• Establishing, supporting, and streamlining resiliency and recovery technology risk reporting and metrics;
• Collaborating with key stakeholders and industry leaders to design and develop IT Disaster Recovery and business continuity strategies integrating on-prem and Cloud platforms;
• Configuring and implementing IT Disaster recovery solutions, leveraging standard industry tools, data replication technologies and cloud-based recovery services;
• Planning and executing regular IT Disaster recovery testing and validation exercises, leveraging automation, monitoring, and alerting tools as needed.

Donna Cona is committed to a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer. We don’t discriminate on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, national origin, disability, age or any other protected status. We are committed to maintaining a barrier free recruitment process by providing equal employment opportunities through recruiting and retention of individuals.