IT Disaster Recovery (IT DR)
IT Disaster Recovery (IT DR)
Los Angeles, CA
Duration: Long term
Required:
1. Minimize Downtime and Service Disruption - Advise on how to restore critical business functions and IT systems within predefined time frames Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
2. Ensure IT Systems and Infrastructure Resilience - Advise on how to protect IT infrastructure and applications against disruptions through redundancy, failover mechanisms, and cloud-based solutions.
3. Support Organizational Resilience - Foster a culture of resilience through training, awareness, and regular testing or DR and BCM plans. Continuously improve plans based on lessons learned from drills and exercises.
4. Promote Rapid Recovery and Return to Normal Operations - Develop and implement recovery strategies that enable swift restoration or normal business operations. Prioritize recovery based on activities business impact analysis (BIA) to ensure the most critical functions are restored first.
5. Strong implementation of Business Impact Analysis tools with specific interest in CL Digital Cloud Business Continuity Management BCM platform.
DR Consultant
The work shall include, but is not limited to:
- Work with IT DR team to evaluate current DR environment and establish a framework for a robust DR/BCM, enhancing organizational resilience, minimizing downtime, and ensuring business continuity in the event of a disruption.
- Work with IT DR team to outline the scope of the consultant s responsibilities in developing and improving the DR/BCM framework and processes. This may involve conducting a current state assessment, developing DR/BCM policies and procedures, and improving and solidifying BCM tool (CL Digital) functionality.
- Work with IT DR team to define the governance and organizational structure for improving DR/BCM activities within the organization. This could include establishing a DR/BCM steering committee, defining roles and responsibilities, and identifying key stakeholders.
- Work with IT DR team to address how CL Digital captures the assessment of potential risks and vulnerabilities, as well as the impact analysis on critical business functions. This may involve conducting additional thorough risk assessment, identifying critical assets and processes, and ensuring consistent review and updates of recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) for all the systems/applications managed by CL Digital.
- Work with IT DR team to specify the development of comprehensive DR/BCM plans and procedures. This could include creating incident response plans, business continuity plans, disaster recovery plans, crisis communication plans, and other relevant documents.
- Work with IT DR team to design realistic and scenario-based test cases that simulate various disaster scenarios, ensuring they cover a range of potential disruptions. Work with LADWP teams to execute the DR exercise, including necessary resources, participants, and infrastructure requirements.
- Work with LADWP teams to coordinate and schedule the DR exercise, including necessary resources, participants, and infrastructure requirements.
- Work with IT DR team to monitor and evaluate the performance of the DR systems, processes, and personnel during (or after) the exercise. Capture and document observations, issues, and lessons learned from the exercise to drive continuous improvement in the DR strategy and plans.
- Work with LADWP team to prepare and deliver comprehensive post-exercise reports, highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations for enhancing the organization s overall DR readiness.
- Address the development and delivery of training programs to educate employees on DR/BCM practices, roles, and responsibilities. This could include conducting awareness sessions, training exercises, or workshops to ensure that employees are prepared to execute the DR/BCM plans.
- Recommend the fine-tuning of the implemented BCM tool to optimize its functionality and effectiveness. This could involve configuring workflows, customizing templates and forms, defining access controls, and ensuring seamless integration with other systems.
- Define the documentation and reporting requirements for DR/BCM activities. This may include generating reports on risk assessments, recovery strategies, incident response activities, and testing results to provide visibility into the organization s DR/BCM readiness.
- Conduct extensive knowledge transfer and documentation of all tasks performed, training of DR/BCM staff team members in all disaster recovery and business continuity principles and developing repeatable processes that can be carried out by DR/BCM staff.
Kiran Kumar
Key Business Solutions, Inc.
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IT Disaster Recovery (IT DR)
Los Angeles, CA
Duration: Long term
Required:
1. Minimize Downtime and Service Disruption - Advise on how to restore critical business functions and IT systems within predefined time frames Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
2. Ensure IT Systems and Infrastructure Resilience - Advise on how to protect IT infrastructure and applications against disruptions through redundancy, failover mechanisms, and cloud-based solutions.
3. Support Organizational Resilience - Foster a culture of resilience through training, awareness, and regular testing or DR and BCM plans. Continuously improve plans based on lessons learned from drills and exercises.
4. Promote Rapid Recovery and Return to Normal Operations - Develop and implement recovery strategies that enable swift restoration or normal business operations. Prioritize recovery based on activities business impact analysis (BIA) to ensure the most critical functions are restored first.
5. Strong implementation of Business Impact Analysis tools with specific interest in CL Digital Cloud Business Continuity Management BCM platform.
DR Consultant
The work shall include, but is not limited to:
- Work with IT DR team to evaluate current DR environment and establish a framework for a robust DR/BCM, enhancing organizational resilience, minimizing downtime, and ensuring business continuity in the event of a disruption.
- Work with IT DR team to outline the scope of the consultant s responsibilities in developing and improving the DR/BCM framework and processes. This may involve conducting a current state assessment, developing DR/BCM policies and procedures, and improving and solidifying BCM tool (CL Digital) functionality.
- Work with IT DR team to define the governance and organizational structure for improving DR/BCM activities within the organization. This could include establishing a DR/BCM steering committee, defining roles and responsibilities, and identifying key stakeholders.
- Work with IT DR team to address how CL Digital captures the assessment of potential risks and vulnerabilities, as well as the impact analysis on critical business functions. This may involve conducting additional thorough risk assessment, identifying critical assets and processes, and ensuring consistent review and updates of recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) for all the systems/applications managed by CL Digital.
- Work with IT DR team to specify the development of comprehensive DR/BCM plans and procedures. This could include creating incident response plans, business continuity plans, disaster recovery plans, crisis communication plans, and other relevant documents.
- Work with IT DR team to design realistic and scenario-based test cases that simulate various disaster scenarios, ensuring they cover a range of potential disruptions. Work with LADWP teams to execute the DR exercise, including necessary resources, participants, and infrastructure requirements.
- Work with LADWP teams to coordinate and schedule the DR exercise, including necessary resources, participants, and infrastructure requirements.
- Work with IT DR team to monitor and evaluate the performance of the DR systems, processes, and personnel during (or after) the exercise. Capture and document observations, issues, and lessons learned from the exercise to drive continuous improvement in the DR strategy and plans.
- Work with LADWP team to prepare and deliver comprehensive post-exercise reports, highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations for enhancing the organization s overall DR readiness.
- Address the development and delivery of training programs to educate employees on DR/BCM practices, roles, and responsibilities. This could include conducting awareness sessions, training exercises, or workshops to ensure that employees are prepared to execute the DR/BCM plans.
- Recommend the fine-tuning of the implemented BCM tool to optimize its functionality and effectiveness. This could involve configuring workflows, customizing templates and forms, defining access controls, and ensuring seamless integration with other systems.
- Define the documentation and reporting requirements for DR/BCM activities. This may include generating reports on risk assessments, recovery strategies, incident response activities, and testing results to provide visibility into the organization s DR/BCM readiness.
- Conduct extensive knowledge transfer and documentation of all tasks performed, training of DR/BCM staff team members in all disaster recovery and business continuity principles and developing repeatable processes that can be carried out by DR/BCM staff.
Kiran Kumar
Key Business Solutions, Inc.
|| Office: || Fax: || Email: || Website: ||
Gtalk:
Note: This email is not intended to be a solicitation. Please accept our apologies and reply in the subject heading with REMOVE to be removed from our Mailing list.