Disaster Recovery Manager - IT - BFSI

Work Experience :

- 10-15 years in a Project Management with experience in large scale Application & infrastructure projects in a financial services

- Experience running Disaster Recovery drills

- Ability to understand Application deployment/architecture i.e. web server, Application server, Database and inter-linkages

Reasonable level of understanding in following technologies :

- Load Balancer, DNS etc. – preferred Citrix Netscalar

- Operating Systems & Databases – AIX/Windows/Oracle/SQL

- SAN

Understand & document DR application details :

- Architecture of application for which DR capability is built

- Interfaces, DB Links, API etc of DR application on dependent applications

- Interfaces, DB Links, API etc of dependent applications on DR application

- Information like IP, Port, Protocol used

- Firewall, Network, DNS rules

Any other specific information which will be required to conduct DR drills.

- Implement & manage change for DR application

- Observing behavior for Application at Production & DR, post migration to Load Balancer (Load balancer is used to enable STP capability across applications during Drill) and coordinate stabilizing/rectifying issues discovered

- Run DR Drills

- Defining , maintaining, publishing the schedule for DR

- Tracking the DR Drills against the baseline defined

- Preparing Final Plan of Action for conducting DR Drill and capture all necessary details

- Ensure all project roles are assigned to appropriate IT resources for successful application drills

- Documenting the DR Drill structure and the interaction between different working groups including internal work groups and vendors

- Ensuring due diligence is conducted on all DR Drills

- Presenting annual Disaster Recovery drill results and implementing corrective actions as needed

- Maintaining recovery planning documentation as it relates to infrastructure systems design, configuration, support, and processes

- Maintaining the Enterprise Disaster Recovery Policy and Run Books (Updating when changes occur)

- Handle Audits for DR

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