bayt.com
Job Description
As a Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Senior Consultant, you will provide consultative business and technical delivery services for a wide range of complex client facing consulting engagements which will enable our customers to protect and maintain the availability of their most critical business processes, applications, and digital assets.
As a member of the services delivery team; you will earn your client’s trust through competence, technical acumen, consulting expertise, and partnership guiding the client through advisory, planning, design and execution of high impact strategic business resiliency and cyber recovery initiatives.
You will:
- Demonstrate passion, ownership, and accountability with a thirst for world class consulting
- Endeavor to become a trusted advisor to our customers and internal stakeholders through technical / business acumen, deep partnership, and delivery of outstanding results
- Leverage your in-depth technical knowledge to assist our customers in execution of their most critical business resiliency initiatives
- Work on enterprise wide client facing resiliency projects and programs as a technical SME in partnership with our project and program management organization
- Partner with service product management teams to enhance and develop business resiliency delivery collateral and toolkits
- Work in alignment with other consulting team members to determine the best solution options to solve our customer’s challenges
Skills
Essential Requirements
- 8 to 12 years of related experience with 5+ years of progressive professional growth in a client facing services delivery role
- Ability to influence and interact with confidence and credibility at all levels within the Client’s companies and with our customers, partners, and vendors
- Proven experience with client facing professional services delivery from presentations, documentation, workshops, and interviews to full scale enterprise wide technology services delivery
- Ability to articulate complex concepts, build consensus and deliver high quality work products
- Experience with design and implementation of highly complex systems with a focus on application availability, disaster recovery, backup / recovery, and cyber resiliency
- Familiarization with / command of:
- Enterprise architecture, infrastructure (network, storage, compute) as well as backup and replication technologies
- Legacy (including Mainframe) & modern application and database architectures with focus on availability and recovery concepts
- Experience working on project teams within a defined methodology while adhering to margin, planning and SOW requirements
- Desire and ability to travel domestically 50% or more (post pandemic)
- Bachelor’s degree from and accredited institution (Management, Computer Science / Technical); Master’s degree from and accredited institution (Management, Computer Science / Technical) a plus
Desirable Requirements
- Big 4 or equivalent management consulting experience
- Technical and Industry Certifications (CBCP, MBCP, CISSP, TOGAF, VMware VCP, CCNA, Microsoft, Dell / EMC or similar)
- Business Resiliency and / or IT Transformation industry experience in Financial Services, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Technology and / or Telecom
- Experience supporting services presales (scoping, estimating, and proposal development) initiatives in a high matrixed organization
Expertise in two or more of the following areas:
- Assessing, developing, and implementing IT continuity strategies and programs, from business impact analysis (BIA) to implementation, testing and hand over to operations.
- Designing and deploying highly resilient application hosting architectures both on prem and across a multi-cloud ecosystem (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure)
- Planning, managing, and exercising large scale application, platform, and infrastructure disaster recovery tests and exercises
- Automating application recovery and failover / failback; CI / CD Pipelines and IaC concepts; Familiarity Agile delivery methodologies.
- Working on large-scale disaster recovery and / or application availability transformation initiatives
- Architecting and implementing isolated (air-gapped) cyber recovery solutions (recovery from a destructive / catastrophic cyber-attack)
- Backup / recovery architecture and design (DataDomain, Avamar, Networker, Isilon, TSM/Spectrum, Netbackup, Commvault, Veeam, and similar)
- Data / storage replication architecture and design (VMware, PMAX/SRDF, Isilon/SyncIQ, RecoverPoint, Zerto, NetApp and similar)
- Database availability and replication architecture and design (Oracle RAC, Oracle Data Guard, Golden Gate, SQL Replication, SQL Always On and similar)
- Mainframe resiliency architectures including IBM GDPS and / or EMC GDDR
- Enterprise open systems, mainframe, and / or cloud systems architecture and design
- Business Continuity Management and Planning, Enterprise Continuity of Operations, Incident Management BCM Frameworks such as ISO22301, industry standards including ISO/IEC 24762:2008, NFPA 1600