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Title: Disaster Recovery Specialist
Key Responsibilities:
• Design and implement Azure-based disaster recovery solutions for critical business applications, ensuring high availability and minimal disruption during outages.
• Conduct application dependency assessments to map out interdependencies between systems, applications, and services, ensuring seamless failover and recovery.
• Define, manage, and test Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) to meet business requirements and reduce downtime.
• Develop and maintain backup strategies using Azure Backup, ensuring data retention policies are met for mission-critical workloads.
• Configure and manage Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for automatic failover and data replication across Azure regions and on-premises environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including IT, DevOps, and application owners to develop comprehensive disaster recovery plans.
• Perform regular disaster recovery drills and failover testing to ensure preparedness and to validate that systems can recover within the agreed RTO/RPO.
• Develop detailed disaster recovery runbooks and procedures, ensuring smooth recovery processes during incidents.
• Implement monitoring solutions using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics to detect issues and ensure optimal system health.
• Provide ongoing risk assessments and business impact analysis (BIA) to identify potential vulnerabilities and gaps in the disaster recovery strategy.
• Stay current on emerging cloud technologies and best practices in disaster recovery and backup solutions, making recommendations for continuous improvement.
Key Qualifications:
• Proven experience as a Disaster Recovery Engineer or similar role, with a focus on Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of RTO/RPO concepts and ability to design systems to meet business recovery objectives.
• Expertise in Azure Site Recovery (ASR), Azure Backup, and Azure Blob Storage.
• Experience in conducting application dependency mapping and assessing critical service interdependencies for DR planning.
• Solid knowledge of cloud architecture, including virtual machines, networking, and storage in Azure environments.
• Familiarity with failover testing, replication technologies, and disaster recovery automation tools.
• Scripting skills (PowerShell, Azure CLI) to automate DR tasks and backup operations.
• Strong understanding of business continuity planning and risk management.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with on-premises-to-cloud migration for disaster recovery purposes.
• Experience in developing disaster recovery strategies for hybrid environments.
• Knowledge of compliance and data protection standards related to DR and backup strategies.