Senior Engineer (Disaster Recovery Automation) Onsite Contract

Role: Senior Engineer (Disaster Recovery Automation) Location: Dubai, Onsite Job type: 4 months extendable to a long term Job Description Main Duties: • Ensure that the following duties are performed duly with quality: • Work with business units and understand business flow of each application and their interdependencies and develop DR plan for all business applications. • Develop recovery priorities, timelines, and strategy for proper sequence of recovery components. • Develop and understand all testing necessary for a successful DR execution • Configure/update infra components, objects and respective business functions, groups and various replication etc. • Configure monitoring, alerts and reports as per RPO/RTO/SLA defined by business. • Configure failover/failback and switch over workflows for applications and updating existing workflows and verifying their functionality with the runbooks. • Coordinate with business team and ensure runbooks are updated and reflect the current infrastructure • Lead planned DR Drill exercises and crisis management and provide RPA report of the drills to BCM team and external auditors • Co-ordinate and manage licenses for infra components with vendor and reclaim licenses for decommissioned and infra components not in use. • On board critical applications in the CP tool. General: • Ensure that the ITSM/Service Now tool is used with quality regarding the incidents and service requests • Ensure that all systems are secured and configured as per defined standards and policies • Able to troubleshoot execution issues. • Verify connectivity to all infra components and coordinate with application/infra teams to ensure connectivity and synchronization among sites • Conduct regular meeting with application owners and review workflows with the team • Review all alerts in the CP tool and notify applications alerts with respective team • Ensure SLA/RPO and RTO of all infra components are met • Participate in Business continuity meetings and assist application teams in following best practices • Provide periodic status reports of infra components to reflect the current conditions and support for the recovery objectives set by the organization Skills and Competencies • Expertise in Disaster recovery management in Perpetuuiti continuity patrol • Good Knowledge of Change Management frameworks such as ITIL • Good knowledge of network infrastructure • Good knowledge on storage replication • Good knowledge on Database • Good leadership skills including people management, selection and development skills • Very good analytical, planning, forecasting, execution and problem-solving skills • Flexible and able to work under pressure • Respect and promote trust and confidentiality • Results oriented whilst ensuring high quality of work and able to "think out of the box" • Strong level of customer service orientation and professionalism in all interactions • Able to manage a multi-cultural environment and promote teamwork and knowledge sharing in order to achieve goals and deliverables