Disaster Recovery Analyst Job Description
Disaster recovery analyst
provides on-going guidance, reporting and actions on IT disaster recovery related matters as part of Sentry’s Business.
Disaster Recovery Analyst Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective disaster recovery analyst job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included disaster recovery analyst job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Develops and plans testing activities for IT business resumption plans, including on-site testing at disaster recovery site
Identify and analyze the gaps in current DR plans
Develop relationships between dependent parties to narrow the DR gaps, Infrastructure, application (business and technical) and operations
Perform risk analysis to identify points of vulnerability and recommend disaster avoidance and reduction
Participate in Proof of Concept/Technology projects as a Subject Matter Expert for Disaster Recovery
Advise architecture and IT teams on efficiencies when designing DR solutions
Facilitate small to large size group meetings for technical design, problem solving and task implementation
Provides input on evaluation, selection, implementation and maintenance of IT systems, ensuring appropriate investment in strategic and operational systems
Plans, leads, organizes and controls projects related to selection, acquisition, development and installation of IT systems for the enterprise
Analyzing critical functions and defining the scope and impact of disaster scenarios
Disaster Recovery Analyst Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Disaster Recovery Analyst
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CBCP, ABCP, DRI, ITIL, DR, V3, BC, PCI, CBCM, EDRP
Education for Disaster Recovery Analyst
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the disaster recovery analyst job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Computer Science, Education, Business, Information Technology, Technical, Computer Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, Management, Management Information Systems
Skills for Disaster Recovery Analyst
Desired skills for disaster recovery analyst include:
Systems development life cycle
Industry practices key vendors
Execution and reporting of IT audits
IT infrastructure operations and familiarity with disaster recovery operations
Methodologies for design
Networking
Related fields
Storage
System architectures and recovery requirements of information systems and processes
Applicable laws
Desired experience for disaster recovery analyst includes:
Designing, planning and implementing an enterprise-wide continuity plan
Analyzing existing systems and recommending diverse, fault-tolerant solutions to ensure COOP and the replication of critical data
Devising, scheduling and implementing COOP and DR tests and analyzing the results
Documenting COOP and DR procedures
Making COOP/DR presentations and recommendations to senior management
Ensuring that the Government and its data systems are in compliance with regulations
Disaster Recovery Analyst Examples
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Disaster Recovery Analyst Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a disaster recovery analyst. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for disaster recovery analyst
- Coordinate quarterly review/update of IT Disaster Recovery documentation such as exercise task lists, workplace recovery plans
- Interacting and negotiating with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to obtain protection services and products
- Capture and maintain evidence of lessons learned for audit reporting purposes
- Work with Disaster Recovery software used for document rendering and validate that all critical recovery information is current and maintained in supported DR tools
- Facilitate/coordinate quarterly reviews, updates, and signoffs to ensure completion of critical recovery documentation of infrastructure consistent with approved corporate policies, standards, and procedures
- Additional support functions as assigned
- Provides support for creation and update of application recovery guides
- Performs implementation tasks for recovery environments
- Executes testing
- Performs system and network design tasks for recovery environments
Qualifications for disaster recovery analyst
- Ten or more years of experience in IT-related positions
- Five or more years of COOP/DR planning experience
- Must be able to facilitate and conduct testing collect and analyze results for improvement and reporting
- A Bachelor’s Degree in information technology, computer science, project management or a related field is preferred or equivalent work experience
- ITIL, ISO 20000, PMP or DRII Certification preferred
- Prior experience with technology disaster recovery operations preferred
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of disaster recovery analyst. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for disaster recovery analyst
- Forecasts and budgets for support growth and/or enhancements
- Assist the AVP – Disaster Recovery Lead with building the DR program, using industry best practices for disaster recovery (technology recovery)
- Creates and maintains disaster recovery/technology plans
- Conducts the Gap Analyses to determine the technology solution requirements, and works with various IT teams to remediate the gaps
- Possesses in-depth understanding of information technology principles with experience in a large enterprise environment
- Participates in establishing the testing methodology across the enterprise
- Understands the disaster recovery strategies, replication methodologies, the Information Technology infrastructure and its underlying components
- Conducts Disaster Recovery Tests, plan walkthrough’s and tabletop exercises
- Manages the Business Continuity Management (BCM) tool supporting the organization
- Participates in business impact analyses to identify time-sensitive business units/processes
Qualifications for disaster recovery analyst
- A confident communicator able to present information to business partners and management
- Identifies and documents corrective actions for areas of improvement in the client
- CCNP and EMCTA Back-up Recovery Solutions Design
- 5 or more years in Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery roles
- Previous experience of working in a Service Continuity role – within a Corporate environment
- Must have experience of Disaster Recovery within an ITIL environment
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a disaster recovery analyst. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for disaster recovery analyst
- Assists in preparation for audits and regulatory examinations
- Understands emergency and incident management and can assist in developing strategies for both
- Writes professional DR documentation
- Creates reports for management utilizing the Business Continuity Management tool
- Audits the Disaster Recovery plans, documents preparedness status, and reports to management
- Manage the completion of risk assessments and compliance audits to monitor, risks related to business and technology initiatives
- Perform regular review of plans and report findings to management
- Follow standards in accordance with company policies and regulations (SOX, SSAE-16, IRS-1075, NIST, ISO 27001)
- Plan and oversee disaster recovery exercises including data center fail-overs
- Assist with responding to and communicating during a crisis
Qualifications for disaster recovery analyst
- Experience of interacting with 3rd party suppliers – who provide a large outsourced solution
- Able to make recommendation for improvement and continually strive for excellence
- Under the direction of the Department Manager, plans, develops, maintains, tests, and documents all
- 5 or more years in Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery, Project Management or Architect roles
- Past consulting experience highly desired
- 10 to 25% travel will be required
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Our growing company is hiring for a disaster recovery analyst. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for disaster recovery analyst
- Assists with the creation and maintenance of IT DR program, including policies, procedures, test data, plans, metrics and scorecards for all components of the program
- Coordinates, assess' and communicates with the IT infrastructure and applicable business groups, resulting in recommendations to enable timely, effective decisions regarding IT disaster recovery planning and execution
- Performs as a member of the IT DR team for projects that are specific to critical application management as it relates to annual testing
- Performs all departmental administrative activities, including staff meeting attendance, monthly status reporting, documentation and other activities, as assigned, in a timely fashion
- Maintains an effective working knowledge of IT DR industry technologies, trends and best practices
- Takes day-to-day direction from senior members and manager of the IT disaster recovery management team
- Acts a liaison between the business and technology teams, facilitating meetings, following up, tracking projects, and implementing communication strategy throughout annual testing lifecycle of critical internal and external applications
- Gains exposure to some of the complex tasks within the job function
- Participates in risk management analysis while supporting the testing processes utilized to validate the disaster recovery plans maintaining test results in the DR tool
- Collect data on Hurricane Harvey impacts on individuals, businesses, and communities
Qualifications for disaster recovery analyst
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in the Information Technology field
- Minimum 3-5 years direct experience in building Disaster Recovery plans is desired
- Skills and experience in developing business impact analysis, risk assessments, recovery strategies, process flow and dependency mapping required
- Strong administrative and organizational skills with the drive to create a plan and meet deadlines
- Ability to interact and work effectively with employees across all locations within the organization
- Proficient skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Outlook)
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of disaster recovery analyst. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for disaster recovery analyst
- Work with IT Infrastructure, and Business Continuity management to ensure that the IT Disaster Recovery (DR Plans) and business continuity plans (BCP) work in harmony to drive disaster recovery strategy and procedures
- Establish and maintain detailed DR communications and security command and control plans through the change management process
- Evaluating the current DR test strategy and environment and providing recommendations to close gaps and/or improve the DR test capabilities
- Identifying and securing back-up systems and written policies and procedures, leveraging the latest trends in technology including cloud and Data Center as a Service (DCaaS) to help develop creative solutions that meet the needs of our customer
- Develop and understand all testing necessary for a successful DR drill
- Managing, scheduling and leading all annual DR failover exercises, including reporting on results and applying post-exercise lessons learned
- Ensure that all High Business Value applications are tested on an annual basis and results are kept for continual improvement
- Provide a monthly report on Disaster Recovery activities to IT and Security management
- Act as a liaison for auditing and examination of disaster recovery processes
- Help ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations
Qualifications for disaster recovery analyst
- Strong documentation skills, including the ability to create detailed and well-organized process and procedure materials, management-level summaries and other materials
- Ensure drill plans commitment are locked
- Ensure drill collaterals are current
- Inspect DR plans to ensure alignment, consistency, and understanding
- Assist in driving operational process to ensure DR collaterals are maintained in a regular basis (not at time of drill)
- Escalate when progress is waning