Job Description
- Application Deadline: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT
- Position: Manager, Disaster Recovery - Information Technology
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience 6 - 13 years
- Location Lagos
- City Ikoyi
- Job Field ICT / Computer 
Job Identification: 1509
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Category: MTN Level 3
Reports To: Senior Manager, Governance and Service Resilience
Division: Information Technology
Job Description
- Performs business continuity and disaster recovery planning and analysis for medium to highly complex assignments.
- Work with Business Continuity management to ensure that the disaster recovery (crisis management) and business continuity plans drive disaster recovery (DR) strategy and procedures.
- Establish and maintain the overall plans for executing all DR procedures and understand their interdependencies.
- Establish and maintain detailed DR communications and command and control plans through a change management process.
- Work with the IT technical staff to ensure that disaster recovery solutions are adequate, in place, maintained, and tested as part of the regular operational life cycle.
- Develop and understand all testing necessary for a successful DR execution.
- Schedule and lead all DR exercises.
- Provide ongoing feedback for risk management, mitigation, and prevention.
- Represent disaster recovery cost requirements in the annual budgeting process.
- Regularly report Disaster Recovery activities to upper management.
- Act as liaison for auditing and examination of disaster recovery processes.
- Work on multiple projects as a lead on business continuity and disaster recovery planning components.
- Serves as a subject matter expert in disaster recovery and business continuity planning
- Develop and implement a plan to provide fail-over capacity of all mission critical servers, applications and networks from service-based execution.
- Develop, review and standardize from service-view all recovery process and procedural standards to address routine, backup, redundancy and recovery architectures.
- Support the implementation of a Business Impact Analysis and business continuity plans
- Ensure the company’s data, data systems, infrastructure and networks are recoverable in the event of a disaster.
- Perform and analyze disaster simulations for the prompt restoration of services.
- Actively participates in Incident & Problem management of major incidents and facilitates service recovery
- Investigate current performance areas of IT Systems disaster recovery infrastructure and identify bottlenecks and develop ideas for performance improvements and implementation.
- Track and monitor the implementation of changes that may impact Business Service Continuity
- Develop, track and report all operations issues as it relates to Business Service Continuity.
- Develops all DR assurance testing activities, i.e. switchover/failover tests, dry runs and back/up recovery activities and ensure they are up to date.
- Lead and direct disaster recovery testing for all Mission Critical Processes
- Support in the tracking of all IT related Risk and update Risk Register accordingly
- Develop and update all Business Continuity PPPs
- Own Business Resilience/Technology Resilience Maturity Index annual target, measurement and improvement plan.
Education
- First Degree or HND in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems or a related field
- Possession of appropriate certifications such as Certified Disaster Recovery Manager (PECB), cBCI – Business Continuity Manager, ISO 22301 - Foundation, Lead Implementer, etc.
- Fluent in English.
Experience:
6 - 13 years experience which includes:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in business continuity and IT disaster recovery experience; with experience in supervising others
- Experience working in a medium-sized organization
- In-depth knowledge of business process modelling, computer platforms, network and proven project management skills.
- Strong skills in testing emergency response, recovery support and business resumption procedures.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of current business continuity and disaster recovery planning techniques and technologies, as well as the methods used in performing risk analyses and business impact analyses.
- Experience in preparing, reviewing, and reporting disaster recovery metrics
- A good understanding of available and emerging IT technologies (disaster recovery tools)
- Experience and understanding of Infrastructure Technologies, including Windows, Unix, Virtual Machines, Hyper Converged Infrastructure, SAN, SDN, Network and Database.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.