Disaster Recovery Consultant-San Diego, CA Day 1 ONSITE

Disaster Recovery Consultant

Location: San Diego, CA Day 1 ONSITE Type: Contract

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

This role requires strong client relationship management at onsite location. This role seeks strong managerial skills with multiple delivery teams at offshore and onsite 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 15+ year
• At least 10+ year Business continuity, Disaster Recovery Management, Planning, Coordination and Management experience

Responsibilities:

• Overall program governance, report health status of DR program
• Lead quarterly reviews with HCLTech and client leadership teams
• Propose gaps and recommendations in DR operations by bringing in industry best practices as followed by organizations of similar size and scale.
• Govern the overall DR planning & exercising of recovery testing
• Excellent understanding of recovery strategies and various Infrastructure Technologies Like Storage, Backup, Networks, Security and Operating Systems (WINTEL, Linux, Solaris).
• Understanding of various services provided by service provider and leading the continuity and resiliency of the delivery of those services
• 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
• Lead efforts for Testing DR environment for datacenter failover and failback and BCP testing
• 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 BCP & DR replication and automation
• Able to drive customer on a streamlined BCP& DR approach for Business as Usual sustainability and readiness
• Streamline Business continuity & Disaster Recovery process and operations for customer
• Define recovery testing calendar and engage in conversations with customers Application and Business teams

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 MBCI/CBCI/CBCP/ ISO22301 would be added advantage.
• Technology related Certifications will be an added advantage.