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About the Role

Neoleap is seeking a Disaster Recovery Expert to join our team in Riyadh. This full-time role is central to designing, implementing, coordinating, and maintaining robust Disaster Recovery (DR) and Data Center resilience capabilities. The objective is to ensure the continuous availability, continuity, and rapid restoration of critical IT services, infrastructure, applications, and business operations during disruptive events.

Role Purpose and Impact

The Disaster Recovery Expert plays a critical role in safeguarding Neoleap's operational integrity. This position is responsible for ensuring organizational recovery readiness, achieving compliance with defined recovery objectives (RTO/RPO), and aligning all efforts with broader business continuity and operational resilience requirements. The role serves as the primary focal point for all DR-related activities across the organization.

Key Responsibilities: Disaster Recovery Management

• Develop, maintain, and periodically review Disaster Recovery strategies, policies, plans, procedures, and recovery runbooks.
• Coordinate and manage DR testing exercises, simulation activities, failover and failback tests, and recovery validation programs.
• Ensure recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) are defined, documented, tested, and achieved for critical business services and systems.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Application, Security, Business Continuity, and Business Units to maintain DR readiness.
• Conduct DR risk assessments and identify gaps, deficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Monitor and track corrective actions resulting from DR tests, audits, assessments, and compliance reviews.
• Maintain DR documentation, inventories, recovery dependencies, and governance records.
• Prepare management reports, dashboards, metrics, and presentations related to DR readiness, testing results, risks, and compliance status.
• Support internal and external audits and ensure compliance with regulatory and organizational requirements.

Key Responsibilities: Data Center Operations and Coordination

• Coordinate day-to-day data center operations to ensure operational stability, service availability, and infrastructure readiness.
• Manage and oversee infrastructure deployment activities, vendor engagements, and operational support requirements.
• Coordinate rack and stack activities, cabling, power allocation, cooling requirements, hardware installation, and equipment relocation activities.
• Ensure adherence to change management processes, operational procedures, and data center governance standards.
• Coordinate infrastructure upgrades, technology refresh projects, migrations, and capacity expansion initiatives.
• Manage operational readiness activities for new systems and infrastructure deployments.
• Support capacity planning, asset management, facility readiness, and operational risk management initiatives.
• Coordinate and monitor third-party vendors to ensure compliance with service delivery and technical requirements.
• Ensure compliance with organizational policies, regulatory standards, and industry best practices related to data center operations.

Key Responsibilities: Project Leadership and Operational Resilience

• Lead and coordinate DR and infrastructure resilience projects from planning through implementation.
• Successfully manage strategic initiatives such as the Oracle Exadata Cloud Customer (EXACC) Storage Expansion Project and the Hardware Security Module (HSM) Relocation and Deployment Project.
• Provide technical guidance and recommendations related to recovery capabilities, resilience improvements, and infrastructure optimization.

Required Experience

• A minimum of 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in Disaster Recovery, Data Center operations, or IT resilience.