About the position
The Disaster Recovery Team is a specialized group within IT tasked with planning, managing, and overseeing the execution of disaster recovery plans. The team’s primary goal is to ensure the rapid restoration of business operations, minimize downtime and operational impact of disasters. This position oversees the development, deployment, and maintenance of IT recovery plans, and ensuring appropriate recovery test scheduling, based on tier and architectural requirements. Governs and manages operational risk through the establishment and compliance to IT disaster recovery policy, monitoring and reporting of procedural development and testing maturity, mapping and maintaining operational process interdependencies, and governing a continuous improvement methodology driving program maturity; plans and strategies targeted to increasing operational resiliency of operations and enabling IT systems in the event of a service disruption. Performs and analyzes operational risks. Maintaining required working knowledge of IT Services and PG&E’s business processes and disaster recovery methodologies and practices. Manages industry expertise in Disaster Recovery. This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and Fairfield, CA based on business needs.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate leadership abilities by coordinating recovery efforts, and managing projects
- Provides advanced consulting and guidance during the detailed design, build, test, and deploy phases of IT projects
- Maintains knowledge of IT infrastructure such as network, storage, cloud, and cloud recovery concepts, cybersecurity, cyber vault, automation and scripting, and systems architecture
- Acting DR SME for all large projects and initiatives. Will be responsible for overseeing all
- Audits IT architecture and design of technology solutions supporting business requirements.
- Manage ongoing maturity of Disaster Recovery Plans.
- Ability to develop integrated enterprise resiliency strategies.
- Create and maintain automation initiatives and metrics dashboard
- Has a high level of tenacity, organization, and ability to work autonomously
- Risk Assessments: identify potential risks and threats (natural disasters, cyberattacks, hardware failures etc.). Analyze vulnerabilities and assess the likelihood and impact of various disaster scenarios.
- Establishes and ensures quality assurance of disaster recovery standards, processes, procedures, tools, templates, and strategies.
- Develops and maintains all technical standards, design patterns, reference architectures and roadmaps for a Reference Architecture Framework.
- Mentor others to improve the team’s knowledge and skill base.
- Identifies and presents programmatic and architectural gaps.
- Rotational shift work during emergency events and ability to work nights and weekends to support exercises.
- Responsible for planning and execution of the annual Enterprise Disaster Recovery Exercise.
- Ability to articulate and draft executive level communications and presentations
- Responsible for assessing application criticality then collecting and evaluating dependencies to produce a order of restoration
Requirements
- High School or GED-General Educational Development-GED Diploma
- Job-related experience, 7 years
Nice-to-haves
- Ability to troubleshoot under pressure
- Clear articulation of technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Work effectively with cross-functional teams like IT, management, and external vendors.
- Precision in documentation and testing disaster recovery plans
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
- Experience in IT-Information Technology engineering design, 10 years
- Experience in enterprise architecture environments
