Disaster Recovery Analyst at Sierra Cybernetics

Disaster Recovery Analyst

Sierra Cybernetics is seeking a Disaster Recovery Analyst to work for us supporting our Port of Long Beach client.

This is a contract assignment, expected to be six months or more.

Open only to US citizens or green card holders; no sponsored candidates are eligible.

You should have 5+ years’ experience in designing and implementing disaster recovery processes and business continuity procedures for re-establishing servers, databases and operating systems in the event of a disruption, both minor and catastrophic. You will perform and analyze disaster simulations for the prompt restoration of services and conduct audits where required and develop and maintain the Disaster Recovery plan and integrate Disaster Recovery (DR) efforts across all Divisions at the Port.

You should have a thorough understanding of tools used for Replication, for e.g. VMWare, Veeam, backup process using Veeam software, a thorough understanding of business applications and their relationships to web, database, and application servers in the standard three environments (Dev, Stage, and Prod). You will be working with the Network Operation Center (NOC), Security Operation Center (SOC), Service Desk (SD), and the Business Applications (BA) teams within the Port’s Information Management Division. Since it is an Enterprise Wide effort, the DR analyst will work with other Divisions, especially the Risk Management Division which leads Business Continuity processes for the Port.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• 5 years of recent experience in: Disaster Recovery, developing, maintaining and testing recovery plans.
• 3 years’ experience with disaster recovery and/or business continuity planning, testing or training.
• 3 years’ experience of data and voice telecommunications to guide the preparation of related recovery procedures.
• 3 years’ experience of VMWare SRM, Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator (DRO), and Veeam backup.
• 3 years’ experience of Data center infrastructure development and management experience
• 3 years’ experience of Backup, recovery, storage systems and IT security management
• Ability to develop, implement and maintain an organization-wide strategy around disaster recovery
• Ability to develop and implement DR incident management practices

EDUCATION

• Four-year college degree with major in computer science, business information systems, or a related business or technical field. Additional experience offering specific and substantial preparation for the duties of the position may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis

DESIRABLE CERTIFICATION(S)

• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) foundational certification.
• CBCP Certification.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develops and maintains DR strategy plans across the enterprise.
• Manages the implementation and execution of the DR strategy to meet industry leading practices.
• Defines steps to resolve cybersecurity incidents and associated escalation procedures.
• Manages KPIs (i.e. RTO and RPO) and dashboards to report metrics, goals and milestones relevant to DR
• Maintains, tests and updates the disaster recovery plan under management supervision
• Monitors the quality of technology services through continual audits
• Establishes training programs to educate employees on organizational best
• Works with Port DR stakeholders to iteratively test critical business applications