Responsibilities

- Disaster Recovery Implementation & Cloud Enablement
- Disaster Recovery cloud implementation initiatives across business-critical applications and services.
- deployment and configuration of Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for virtual machines, databases, and application workloads.
- Ensure recovery solutions are integrated with enterprise architecture, security, and operational standards.
- Coordinate with application and infrastructure teams to validate recovery readiness and operational support requirements.
- Ensure DR activities align with enterprise risk, compliance, and audit expectations.
- Act as the central coordination point for DR governance across application and infrastructure teams.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) artifacts using ARM templates, Terraform, or similar automation frameworks to support repeatable DR deployments.
- Recovery Testing, Validation & Operational Assurance
- Plan, coordinate, and lead Disaster Recovery drills, failover tests, and recovery validation exercises.
- Validate recovery capabilities against defined RTO, RPO, and business continuity requirements.
- Identify, document, and track testing issues, risks, and remediation activities through closure.
- Provide assurance that recovery procedures, runbooks, and operational controls are tested and maintained.
- Support application owners in addressing DR gaps, risks, or overdue actions.
- Testing Cadence & Readiness Assurance
- Define and manage the DR testing cadence (annual, semiannual, or riskbased).
- Coordinate and track DR test execution across businesscritical systems.
- Validate test outcomes, including recovery timing, success criteria, and exception handling.
- Ensure lessons learned and remediation actions are captured and tracked to closure.
- Measurement, Reporting & Audit Support
- Establish and maintain DR metrics, including:
- Test completion rates
- RTO/RPO attainment
- Outstanding risks and exceptions
- Produce executivelevel DR readiness and compliance reporting.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for internal audit,



risk, and compliance reviews related to Disaster Recovery.
- Support regulatory, client, and thirdparty audit inquiries with documented evidence.
- Continuous Improvement & Risk Management
- Identify trends, systemic risks, and improvement opportunities across the DR program.
- Drive standardization of DR templates, reporting, and governance processes.
- Partner with IT Operations, Security, and Risk teams to mature the firms recovery posture over time.

Skills

- Solid experience in Disaster Recovery governance, IT operations, or risk management.
- Disaster Recovery cloud implementation initiatives, evaluating existing infrastructure and providing recommendations for integration and configuration with Azure services.
- Create end-to-end disaster recovery solutions for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud models.
- Working knowledge of RTO/RPO concepts, business impact analysis (BIA), and recovery testing practices.
- Analyze business requirements and translate them into technical DR architectures, including cross-region replication, failover automation, and recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO).
- Conduct DR drills and failover tests to validate recovery plans and ensure compliance with business continuity standards.
- Play a lead role in conducting DR tests, identifying and resolving issues encountered during testing, and documenting test results.
- Deployment and configuration of Azure Site Recovery for virtual machines, databases, and application tiers.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using tools like Azure Recovery Manager (ARM) templates or terraform.
- Document architectural designs, operational procedures,



and technical decisions.
- Optimize cloud resources for performance and cost efficiency, continuously refining solutions.
- Ability to engage effectively with application owners and technical teams without performing handson engineering.
- Strong documentation, process definition, and control mindset.
- Experience with ServiceNow for workflow tracking, evidence management, or reporting.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Comfort producing metrics, dashboards, and executivelevel reporting.

Education / Professional Experience/ Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field..
- 5–8 years of experience in IT operations, disaster recovery, business continuity, risk, or governance roles.
- Proven experience as an Azure Cloud Administrator or similar role, with deep expertise in expertise in designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions including designing and implementing cloud-based Disaster Recovery using IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud models.
- Understanding of cloud security, networking, and compliance standards.
- Strong knowledge of Azure services, cloud architecture patterns, infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
- Proficiency with Azure Active Directory, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure DevOps, Azure Functions, and various storage and compute options.
- Experience supporting enterprise DR programs and recovery testing cycles.
- AZ-900, AZ-104, ITIL, DR/BCP, or riskrelated certifications preferred.

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Key Skills RPOAzure disaster recoveryBusiness Continuity PlanningDisaster RecoveryRTODisaster Recovery Planningazure cloud

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