Disaster Recovery Specialist

Robert Half have partnered with a Healthcare Manufacture to recruit for a Disaster Recovery Specialist to lead and enhance our organisation's resilience strategy.

This role will focus on planning, developing, and executing robust Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity processes within a complex Azure-based environment.

• Lead the planning and development of DR and BC testing services, ensuring structured and repeatable processes.
• Collaborate with operations teams to align recovery strategies with business requirements.
• Identify and address gaps impacting DR/BC readiness, documenting improvements.
• Coordinate and manage DR and BC test schedules, dependencies, and stakeholder communications.
• Maintain and improve DR/BC documentation, including runbooks, recovery plans, test frameworks, and impact analyses.
• Facilitate DR and BC drills and simulations, capturing lessons learned and implementing improvements.
• Support audits, compliance checks, and risk assessments related to DR and BC.

Experience:

• Minimum 5 year's experience in IT infrastructure, DR coordination, or business continuity.
• Strong background in planning and service development, not just execution.
• Solid understanding of backup, replication, failover, and recovery technologies.
• Hands-on experience with DR/BC tools such as Zerto, Veeam, Commvault, Azure Site Recovery, ServiceNow.
• Familiarity with frameworks like ITIL and ISO 22301.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Organisation:

• Initial 12 Month Contract
• Hybrid Working | Surrey based
• Global Healthcare Manufacturer

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