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Short Description:

The Disaster Recovery Specialist (DRS) is responsible for assisting State efforts to develop, implement and coordinate disaster recovery plans and tests for all mission-critical IT environments.

Complete Description:

The Disaster Recovery Specialist (DRS) is responsible for assisting State efforts to develop, implement and coordinate disaster recovery plans and tests for all mission-critical IT environments.  The Disaster Recovery Specialist is responsible for working with State agencies to develop, test, evaluate and implement disaster recovery plans and ensure system recovery efforts are accomplished within defined timeframes.

Years of Relevant Experience: 5 to 7 years

Preferred Education: 4 year degree in Management Information Systems (MIS), Computer Science, or related field is preferred.

Role Description:

All roles specified plus the following:

•Document the readiness of the State’s IT infrastructure for recovery from a disaster.

•Assist client agencies with the design, testing, and implementation of disaster recovery plans for their IT data centers, applications and systems.

•Develop and conduct periodic simulated disaster scenarios and assist in the validation of the recovery plans and procedures.

Skills:

Project Management Experience

Required 3 Years

Excellent Communication Skills

Required 3 Years

Previous State Experience

Highly desired 1 Years

Disaster Recovery Design Experience

Highly desired 2 Years

Questions:

Question 1

Please list projects where candidate did Gap analysis for assessment of a disaster recovery process

Question 2

Please list projects where the candidate has worked on transitioning process and policy for Disaster recovery from one organization to another.

Question 3

Has the candidate worked on projects where he/she was the sole individual responsible for combining/merging two DR plans from at least two separate organizations?