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Carnegie Mellon University · 1 month ago

Technology Disaster Recovery Specialist - Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Services

Pittsburgh, PA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

3+ years exp

Carnegie Mellon University is seeking a Disaster Recovery Specialist to join their Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Services department. This role involves developing and maintaining disaster recovery plans, facilitating exercises to validate recovery capabilities, and providing training and support to ensure the resilience of the university’s critical IT infrastructure.

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Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Responsibilities

Disaster Recovery (DR) plans development. Develop, document, and maintain DR Plans with Computing Services and other CMU Technology departments for infrastructure, systems, data, security, and third-party systems

Exercises. Plan, facilitate, and document DR exercises (tabletop and functional) to validate and verify the recovery capabilities of plans. Following exercises, document After Action Reports to identify and close gaps or implement process improvements

Training and support. Provide training, support, and awareness to plan owners, administrators, and users

Monitoring changes in the IT environment to ensure DR plans remain current and effective

Incident response. Assist incident response efforts during actual disaster recovery events, including technical coordination and escalation

Technology prioritization and recovery orchestration. Assist in defining recovery priorities and sequence of recovery of infrastructure and systems based on business requirements

Other duties as assigned

Qualification

Disaster Recovery PlanningBusiness Continuity SoftwareCloud Recovery SolutionsTechnical CertificationsVirtualization VMwareVirtualization Hyper-VBackup Tools VeeamBackup Tools CommvaultAnalytical SkillsProblem-SolvingProject ManagementInterpersonal SkillsRelationship-BuildingCross-Functional TeamworkSelf-MotivatedGoal-DrivenTime Management

Required

3 to 5 years of experience developing, maintaining, and exercising DR Plans for systems, data, infrastructure, security, cloud, and hybrid solutions or equivalent technical experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, related area required or equivalent relevant work experience

Successful completion of a pre-employment background check

Preferred

Knowledge of and proficiency in the use of business continuity software is strongly preferred

Experience with virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), cloud recovery solutions, backup tools (e.g., Veeam, Commvault), or scripting (e.g., PowerShell, Python)

Technical certifications such as AWS, ITIL, CDRE, VCP-DCV, etc

Experience in Disaster Recovery management software such as FUSION, Archer, Risk Connect, Service Now, etc