Summary
TAWANTECH is seeking a Disaster Recovery Expert to lead disaster recovery, IT resilience, and business continuity for critical banking systems and technology services in Riyadh. The role covers recovery strategies and runbooks, RTO/RPO management, drills and testing, and coordination across technical and business teams. It also involves assessing risks, maintaining compliant recovery capabilities, managing vendors, and reporting readiness to management. Applicants need at least 5 years of relevant experience, mandatory banking experience, and a bachelor’s degree in IT, computer science, engineering, or a related field.
The posting
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We are seeking a Disaster Recovery Expert – Supervisor/Lead with 5+ years of experience, including mandatory banking or financial services experience. The role will lead and oversee Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, and Business Continuity activities for critical banking systems and technology services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain DR strategies, plans, procedures, and recovery runbooks.
- Define and maintain RTO/RPO for critical systems.
- Lead DR drills, simulations, failover/failback, and recovery testing.
- Coordinate with infrastructure, network, cybersecurity, application, database, cloud, and business teams.
- Ensure DR environments, backup, replication, HA, and recovery capabilities are operational and compliant.
- Conduct risk assessments, BIA, and root-cause analysis for DR issues.
- Ensure alignment with banking regulations, audit requirements, and IT governance.
- Manage DR vendors and provide regular readiness and risk reports to management.
- Lead and mentor DR/technical teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years in Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, Infrastructure, or Business Continuity.
- Mandatory banking experience.
- Previous Lead/Supervisor experience preferred.
- Strong knowledge of DR architecture, data centers, cloud, virtualization, backup, replication, and high availability.
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.