Major Accountabilities: IT planning, innovative technology solutions, and managing relationships with IT leaders, business partners and external vendorsLeading, developing, implementing and maintaining technical recovery processes to ensure continual operations in the event of a disaster or interruptionServes as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in evaluating and selecting disaster recovery technologies and support all projects that have disaster recovery related risks associated with themAssuring that DR plans that support the overall recovery are in place. Participate in the oversight process with the plan owners to assure that plans align between the teams into a cohesive strategy. Assure that the plans are regularly updated and maintain readiness state; supports a growing Risk Management portfolioSupport the development and implementation of Sun Life future DR solution that might include DR automation/orchestration tools for both Open/Distributed Systems and MainframeSupports disaster recovery activities required at time of an event including mainframe recovery, recovery support and distributed (open) systems recovery as well as support for Cloud recovery where applicableBe on call and support coordination for major disaster events that would require invocation of the Disaster Recovery plans. Support Crisis management in that decision making process.Supports existing exercise test planning coordination of Technology Recovery ExercisesCompetencies: Technology and Recovery experience across multiple technologies and platforms including: EMC Storage (SAN), Network LAN/WAN, Mainframe, Windows/Unix server, Databases (Oracle, SQL) Virtualization, backup, Cloud technologies3-5 years of proven experience in actively leading / facilitating Disaster Recovery exercises for large scale data centre(s)Familiarity with storage and database remote data replication technologiesBusiness Continuity lifecycle and process experienceProblem solving including problem identification, cross team coordination, development of remediation actions and approaches to confirm the remediation efforts had the desired resolutionLeaderEducation and Certifications: Bachelor's Degree (preferably in Computer Science or Management Information Systems)Minimum 10 years of IT and/or DR ExperienceDRI ABCP Certification (preferably CBCP certification)
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