Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Specialist

Axtria () is a global big data analytics company. We empower leaders across the Life Sciences and Financial Services industries to make better data-driven decisions. Our data analytics and software platforms support data science, commercial operations and cloud information management. We help to optimize business strategy by delivering cutting edge analytics from the broadest set of data sources, combined with deep technical and domain expertise. We enable commercial excellence by eliminating spreadsheets and delivering analytical guidance to the field through our cloud-based sales planning and operations platform. We are leaders in managing data using the latest cloud information management and big data technologies. Job Description Responsibilities

• Ownership and management of business continuity and disaster recovery for Managed Services offerings
• Business impact analysis and risk assessment for AWS/Azure public cloud by Cloud Ops/ SaaS Ops and LOB recovery teams
• Perform Business Impact Assessment (BIA), multi-AZ architecture within an AWS Region or multiple clouds
• Ensure proper maintenance of the plan through regular reviews with teams
• Schedule, coordinate and conduct planned tests, as required
• Perform risk assessment with Axtria LOB teams
• Develop, coordinate and assess recovery requirements and contingency plans
• Develop contingency plans to deal with emergencies
• Analyse impact on and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements
• Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials
• Contingency Planning - Identify potential business interruptions, develop safeguards against these interruptions, and implement recovery procedures in the event of a business interruption. Documentation and training on contingency planning concepts and procedures.
• Disaster Recovery - Safeguard LOBs & IT by identifying potential problem areas and single points of failure that may result in interruptions to critical data processing operations. Develop and implement disaster recovery, data sensitivity, library management, back-up and recovery, and disaster recovery plans and procedures.
• Business Recovery - Develop safeguards and Business Recovery Plans and procedures governing the remote business offices and operations associated with the organization.
• Risk Management - Identify and categorize outage exposures that could cause a business interruption, then obtain agreements to safeguard against a disaster event. Responsible for insuring that business and regulatory requirements are adhered to and that implemented recovery procedures and contracts are cost justifiable.
• Continuously enhancing knowledge and skills to remains abreast of the industry trends and updates on information security issues and data privacy topics
• Excellent communication and advocacy skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to understand and communicate technical and as well as compliance requirements
• Strong documentation skills in writing process documents, guidelines, checklists etc.

• Ability to understand and apply DR concepts to both mainframe and distributed environments
• Knowledge and experience in performing assessments aligned with the best practices
• Knowledge of the DRII/BCI BCDR frameworks
• Ability to work independently, effectively manage competing demands and priorities
• Familiarity with Governance, Risk and Compliance as it applies to BCDR planning
• Ability to interact with a variety of internal and external people in a professional manner that creates confidence in his/her knowledge and abilities and helps foster mutually satisfactory resolution to control gaps and issues
• Demonstrate the ability to think strategically and drive tactical execution
• Very good analytical and problem solving skills
• Highly polished public presentation and communication skills required to present to Sr. Management
• Strong documentation skills, including the ability to create detailed and well organized summaries of risk assessment findings that can be easily understood by stakeholders
• BE / BTech / MCA
• MBA / PGDBA
• 18 - 20 years in managing BCP/DR for large organizations