Sr. IT Disaster Recovery Engineer Virtual remote home office eligible

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Humana

Sr. IT Disaster Recovery Engineer (Virtual remote home office eligible)

in

Bridgeport

Connecticut

Description

The Senior IT Disaster Recovery Engineer will primarily support, coordinate and transform ITDR in accordance across ingested Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and the corresponding criticality matrix that drives more restrictive recovery objectives across all applications. Leveraging BIA data, review/analyze and assign recovery tiers--the candidate will collaboratively work with infrastructure, application and business partners to drive to cost estimation, validation and approval. Then follow through with planning and test validation. Responsible for Vendor Due Diligence for third party IT services.

The Senior IT Disaster Recovery Engineer work assignments involve moderately complex to complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

Responsibilities

The Senior IT Disaster Recovery Engineer engages in all facets and activities of the DR Program and expected to:

Experienced in Vendor Due Diligence, contracts and reviewing BCDR vendor DR plans and testing results, prepare annual review requirements and maintenance schedule Create standardized templates in response to Vendor Risk Assessments

Comfortable with defining a communication plan and writing monthly and quarterly activities and preparing lunch and learns

Experienced with Audits preparing responses, documenting CMS standards, populate Audit Repository with standard audit responses

Manage recovery plan development and maintenance activities to ensure plans are current and compliant

Manage the test lifecycle supporting and facilitating testing with infrastructure and applications teams.

Understands and advocates DR Program strategy while executing activities with IT teams.

Able to join and contribute to DR in the cloud transformation efforts.

Comfortable leading discussions and educating business and IT partners in matters concerning DR methodology, practices, roles and responsibilities.

Highly experienced in engaging infrastructure and application teams to collaborate on discussions and requirements for disaster recovery including experience with recovery and system processes

Solid understanding of IT infrastructure, application and operations environment structure

Able to work successfully as a member of a team through collaboration and support.

Proven ability to influence and collaborate with internal and external resources.

Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues, ability to solve problems and address obstacles.

Capable of managing multiple assignments/priorities in a fast-paced environment using discernment, organization, time and objectives management.

Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignments.

Provides project leadership, when needed, for the purpose of planning, directing, controlling, developing and maintaining the Disaster Recovery program.

Knowledge of Crisis Management, Business Continuity and Event Management practices

Understands that Disaster Recovery professionals can be called in to support test exercises or unplanned outages off regular business hours as necessary

Strong verbal and written communication skills; capable to report progress, status and other pertinent information to partners and leaders

Advanced skills in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, SharePoint) with an ability to produce professional documents

Some, but limited travel required (no more than 10%)

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or 5 years of disaster recovery and/or business continuity planning experience;

Extensive experience business impact analysis, recovery strategic planning, communications and reporting to ensure capabilities and expectations are adequately managed, data analysis and metric development; and

Strong communications/presentation and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

CBCP/CBCI preferred

Strong Excel and/or metrics experience preferred

Power BI experience a plus

ITIL certification a plus

RSA Archer experience a plus

Service Now experience a plus

Additional Information

For this job, associates are required to be fully COVID vaccinated (preferred) or undergo weekly COVID testing and wear a face covering while at work. The weekly testing will need to be done through an approved Humana vendor, and unvaccinated associates should follow all social distancing and masking protocols if they are required to come into a Humana facility or work outside of their home. We are a healthcare company committed to putting health and safety first for our members, patients, associates, and the communities we serve.

If progressed to offer, you will be required to:

Provide proof of full vaccination or commit to testing protocols OR  

Provide proof of applicable exemption including any required supporting documentation

​​Medical, religious, state and remote-only work exemptions are available.

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Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Company info

Humana Inc.
Website : http://www.humana.com