• Develop a comprehensive Disaster Recovery Plan for the IT platforms & services (on-premises & cloud) which deliver & support the client's essential services.
• Develop a comprehensive Disaster Recovery Plan for the IT platforms & services developed for (or which will deliver & support) client project.
• Participate in assessments of the impact of potential disruptions in IT services, including declaring a disaster and activating the DR plan.
• The successful Disaster Recovery Specialist should be able to translate business operations recovery requirements into action-oriented plans, programs, data centre infrastructures and recovery testing strategies.
• Understand critical client ICT services and identify infrastructure components to build out DR environments.
• Conduct Business Impact Analyses to determine what resources are necessary to continue business functionality.
• Engage with business & system owners to & prioritise critical systems

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, or a related field
• Plus, four years of experience working in a role related to the key deliverables/experience/skillsets.
• Plus, one or more of the following certifications or equivalent: ISC2: CISSP
• ISACA: CISM, CRISC, CISA, CGEIT
• ISO 27001 Lead Auditor/Lead Implementer CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner+
• ISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Lead Auditor/Certified Business Continuity Management certificates should be listed
  
• Experience in Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) software to identify data and computer systems that may need to be recovered, plan offsite data storage and computing facilities, and test data recovery procedures.
• Developing a comprehensive IT Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Experience in planning for both natural disasters and malicious attacks.
• Engage with business & system owners to identify & prioritise critical systems.
• Manage comprehensive testing of the Disaster Recovery Plan by overseeing adequate testing of the plan: Checklist Review Test; Tabletop Exercise; Simulation Test; Parallel Test; Full-Interruption Test.
• Backup, recovery, storage systems and IT security management
• Vendor management of external DR service providers
• Experience in defining, implementing and enforcing risk-based standards, processes and procedures for responding to disruptions in business or IT operations.
• Understanding of and documented experience in applying ISO 27001, ITIL v3, DRI International (DRII) or Business Continuity Institute (BCI) professional practices, as well as industry-specific regulations and regulatory bodies.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Ireland or currently hold a Stamp 1G/4 Visa to apply.

For more information please apply here or contact Daniel Gavin (see below) in itContracting directly.

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Ref: ITC5626-2