Overview
This role provides technical leadership in designing, implementing, and continuously improving enterprise disaster recovery capabilities across a global technology environment. The IT Disaster Recovery Specialist ensures critical systems, cloud platforms, and applications are resilient and recoverable.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership in designing, implementing, and continuously improving enterprise disaster recovery capabilities.
- Ensure critical systems, cloud platforms, and applications are resilient and recoverable, aligned to defined RTO and RPO targets.
- Drive adoption of DR frameworks, testing programmes, and recovery practices.
- Define and maintain enterprise DR policies, standards, and governance framework.
- Establish and refine RTO/RPO targets aligned to business criticality.
- Ensure DR documentation is audit-ready and integrated with ITSM processes.
- Align DR practices with business continuity strategy.
- Design DR solutions across cloud (Azure/AWS), hybrid, and on-prem environments.
- Implement failover, geo-redundancy, and backup strategies.
- Embed DR requirements into solution architecture and project delivery.
- Evaluate DR tools and vendor capabilities.
- Plan and execute DR drills, failover tests, and tabletop exercises.
- Validate RTO/RPO compliance for critical systems.
- Document outcomes and track remediation actions.
- Drive continuous improvement based on test results.
- Act as technical authority during major incidents and recovery scenarios.
- Coordinate recovery across infrastructure, cloud, and application teams.
- Maintain DR runbooks and recovery playbooks.
- Support PIR and integrate lessons learned.
- Train teams on DR practices and readiness.
- Engage business stakeholders on recovery requirements.
- Maintain DR dashboards and reporting.
- Collaborate with security, cloud, and platform teams.
Required Experience
5+ years’ experience in IT Disaster Recovery, Infrastructure Operations, or Business Continuity roles. Proven experience designing and implementing enterprise disaster recovery strategies across cloud (Azure/AWS), hybrid, and on-prem environments. Hands-on experience with DR technologies (e.g., Azure Site Recovery, AWS DR patterns, backup/replication tools). Experience defining and operationalizing RTO / RPO for critical services. Experience leading DR testing (failover, tabletop, live recovery drills) and recovery execution. Exposure to hybrid environments (cloud + on-prem infrastructure). Experience integrating DR with ITSM processes (Incident, Major Incident, Change, Problem Management).
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. ITIL Foundation (minimum); ITIL Intermediate or ITIL 4 Managing Professional is an advantage. Relevant certifications in cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) or disaster recovery / business continuity (e.g., DRII, CBCI) are desirable.
