Disaster Recovery Expert

About the Role

Integrated Solutions Tawantech is seeking a Disaster Recovery Expert to join their team. This full-time role involves leading and overseeing Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, and Business Continuity activities, with a specific focus on critical banking systems and technology services. The position requires a professional with significant experience in the financial services sector.

Role Context and Leadership

As a Disaster Recovery Expert, you will function in a supervisor/lead capacity, guiding initiatives to ensure the resilience and continuous operation of essential banking infrastructure. This includes strategic planning, operational oversight, and coordination across various technical and business units to maintain robust recovery capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain comprehensive Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies, plans, procedures, and recovery runbooks.
• Define and maintain Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for critical systems.
• Lead DR drills, simulations, failover/failback processes, and recovery testing.
• Coordinate effectively with infrastructure, network, cybersecurity, application, database, cloud, and business teams.
• Ensure DR environments, backup, replication, High Availability (HA), and recovery capabilities are operational and compliant.
• Conduct risk assessments, Business Impact Analysis (BIA), and root-cause analysis for DR-related issues.
• Ensure alignment with banking regulations, audit requirements, and IT governance standards.
• Manage DR vendors and provide regular readiness and risk reports to management.
• Lead and mentor DR and technical teams.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in Disaster Recovery.
• Mandatory experience in the banking or financial services sector.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the specified qualifications and experience are encouraged to apply for this full-time position.