Disaster Recovery Architect ( Lead ) L3

Description This•Racine, WI

About The Position

This is a lead technical architect position in the Disaster Recovery Management team that is managing the Recovery service for a HCL Client's IT environment. The role primarily involves design and architect Disaster Recovery strategy and solutioning for a heterogeneous technology environment. This role seeks strong technical and managerial skills with multiple delivery teams to monitor day-to-day operational issues, technical readiness and capabilities of the recovery environment and ability to trigger a failover event, supporting technology required to enable recovery during recovery a drill or a disaster declaration scenario.

Requirements

Overall IT professional experience 12+ year
At least 10+ year technology implementation, design and architecture, Infrastructure recovery solutions
Ability to analysis current technology landscape and propose future state of Disaster Recovery technology
Network / Security / Storage / Backup / Database / virtualization Technology related experience.
Candidate must be comfortable leading in a fast-paced team environment, and possess very good communications skills
Presentation and mathematical Skills.
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field.
At least 8+ years of experience in computing or related area with a focus on technology and management.

Nice To Haves

Professional certifications such as ABCP/CBCP/ BS25999 would be added advantage.
Technology related Certifications will be an added advantage

Responsibilities

Experience in designing Disaster Recovery solutions for Cloud IaaS/PaaS, Azure, O365, Cloud Integration etc
Responsible for developing, maintaining and driving adoption of Infrastructure recovery solution architectures that align with business needs
Partnering with Global Engineering and Architecture teams to ensure solutions are in line with Firm-wide Strategic Technology Roadmap
Review, assess and present DR solutions options to Engineering board and IT architecture leaderships
Identifying gaps in current DR standards and developing future state application and infrastructure architectures, frameworks, and development standards
Recommending end-to-end technology design solutions and takes full accountability for the architecture of solutions
Ability to provide costing and effort required for implementation of recovery solutions
Leading multiple technology groups to ensure that the application, integration, infrastructure, and security architectures are designed to meet evolving business requirements on Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity and align with the organization Technology Roadmap
Experience in designing and implementing Disaster Recovery solutions across Database platform, Storage, Backup and virtualization, network, tools and application platforms
Expert level knowledge of Database backup and recovery process and DR solutions like RAC, Active Dataguard, Oracle Golden gate, Site Recovery Manager, Zerto, ASR
Cloud Solutions / Hardware Virtualizations – IaaS, Paas, Saas, Provisioning Automation (on Demand DR provisioning and scaling), Hybrid Cloud
Experience in proposing Disaster Recovery as a Service design
Basic understanding of Mainframe, AS400, & Tandem and recovery solutions
Manage the various technology teams to develop drill Test Plans and Test Evaluation Summaries across heterogeneous infrastructure layers
Lead efforts for Testing DR environment for datacenter failover and failback
Drill execution co-ordination, incident / issues tracking during drills
Experience in recovery testing data collection, analysis and reporting with recommendation of alterations to improve recovery performance
Well affluent in tools that enable DR replication and automation
Able to drive customer on a streamlined DR approach for Business as Usual sustainability and readiness
Streamline Disaster Recovery process and operations for customer
Define recovery testing calendar and engage in conversations with customer's Application and Business teams