Consultant, IT Disaster Recovery

Consultant, IT Disaster Recovery

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KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Associate, IT Disaster Recovery to join our Digital Nexus organization.

IT Disaster Recovery Senior Associate assist with Disaster Recovery Exercises planning process and collaborate in recovery activities coordination during actual events. Working together SMEs and stakeholders from applications teams to develop and manage Disaster Recovery Plans, as well as implementing controls to increase the resiliency for critical applications. Participates in IT Disaster Recovery improvements program and innovation projects related to the IT DR services offered.

• Assist and/or Lead IT Disaster recovery exercises. 

• Participates in DR Exercise, execution, and post-test activities. Collaborate with key business stakeholders to develop the DR Exercise reports and gaps remediations resulted from DR exercises. 

• Being available (On-Call and/or stand by) during shift and after hours to coordinate recovery activities during a major outage or actual IT disaster.

• Work a non-standard shift to support IT-DR Tests.  Friday thru Monday 4 x 10 shift.

• Track & Document Issues & Vulnerabilites experienced during IT-DR Tests. Submit Issue tickets in the IRM system.

• Develop business cases for the use of automation to improve DRP/BCP efficiency, reduce risk, increase resiliency, and reduce costs.

• Monitor and report on Business Technology Resilience Team’s service Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Service Level Objectives (SLO)

• Perform post Lessons Learned for DRP/BCP improvements.

• Manage the Business Technology Resilience Team’s data, metadata, and documentation.

• Lead /collaborate IT Disaster recovery initiatives to enhance internal services consumed by stakeholders.

• Participates in internal forums for the adoption of new technologies, best practices and methodologies for improving the services offered by IT Disaster Recovery team.

Active participation in Scrum ceremonies and stories definition and development.

• Minimum 5-6 years of recent experience and supporting highly available resilient / active-active failover ready applications in an IT-DR environment.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university; or equivalent work experience
• Experience Leading or Supporting IT-DR Test, Scoring and Auditing of IT-DR Tests.
• Experience with Azure Cloud; familiarity with SaaS
• Competent in site recovery engineering concepts pertaining to networking, storage, compute, database, middleware, cloud, and resilient application (local and geographic redundancy)
• Strong verbal/written communication, effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and authority; must be able to prioritize, delegate and foster the development of high-performance teams to lead/support an environment driven by customer service and teamwork.
• Ability to prioritize and to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience with Service Now’s BCM module is a plus. Experience with Site Recovery Engineering (SRE) a plus.
• Ability with problem-solving and finding solutions.
• Experience with Scrum /Kanban Agile methodologies.
• Scrum Master fundamentals certification (desirable).
• Adaptable and open to change based on business needs.

Ability to understand business needs and translate them into initiatives for service improvements.

Experience Level

Senior Level