IT Security Consultant (Disaster Recovery)

Introduction

Our partner is an industrial giant whose aim is to drive the world towards a sustainable future by building businesses and partnerships across various specializations ranging from energy to batteries through the help of a unique blend of knowledge and competence. They are committed to leading the world towards a more innovative, balanced and self-sustaining ecosystem through the optimal use of natural resources and products.

Tasks

Contribute to the development and improvement of the IT recovery framework
Contribute to monitoring the performance and quality of the effectiveness of IT recovery framework
Work closely with all GBS IT departments to identify improvement areas and coordinate the alignment with IT strategy
Maintain defined tiers if availability and recoverability for systems/applications/tools to support established SLA’s including RTO/RPO
Facilitate the creation and the maintenance of disaster recovery plans
Ensure that appropriate plans, procedures and all supplemental documentation are available, properly maintained
Collaborate with IT staff to oversee and support recovery work efforts
Plan, schedule and facilitate regular recovery testing for systems/applications/tools (DR exercises)
Contribute to the ongoing awareness and support training sessions to improve and reinforce familiarity with baseline terminologies
Develop, populate and improve metrics to benchmark maturity level and present program progress to leadership
Validate if deployed solutions meet the needs of GBS IT and its business partners (customers) in terms of resiliency, high availability and recovery in collaboration with relevant IT teams
Where gaps identified, oversee and coordinate remediation activities
Evaluate whether backup management capabilities are aligned with recovery needs

Expectations

Experience in managing recovery efforts within hybrid environment including both on-premises and cloud
Experience working in cross-functional teams
Ability to influence others
Demonstrated experience in disaster recovery management
Familiarity with backup management processes
Experience in performing root cause analysis
Ability to articulate and facilitate recovery efforts
Familiarity with continuity and recovery frameworks and best practices such as NIST CSF, ISO 22301 and ISO 27001/2
Experience in shared services environment

Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Strong visualization skills
Analytical, precise and process-based mindset
Ability to analyze complex technical problems
Able to manage large amounts of new information quickly and understand correlations and dependencies
Fluency in English

Advantageous