Day Rate Contract - 12 months
Dublin Based
About the Role
We are currently recruiting for an experienced Infrastructure Disaster Recovery & Resilience Coordinator to join a global technology team within a leading financial services organisation. This is an exciting opportunity for an infrastructure professional with a strong technical background and proven experience in Disaster Recovery, infrastructure resilience and enterprise recovery operations. Important: We are looking for someone with a genuine infrastructure engineering background and practical Disaster Recovery experience. This is a technical role, rather than a purely project management, governance or business continuity position.
Responsibilities
- You will be responsible for coordinating and supporting Disaster Recovery exercises, infrastructure failovers and recovery activities across complex enterprise environments.
- Working with global infrastructure teams, you will help ensure critical technology services can be recovered effectively following major incidents, outages or cyber events.
- Coordinate and support enterprise Disaster Recovery tests and planned failover exercises.
- Work with infrastructure teams across servers, storage, networking, databases, middleware and mainframe environments.
- Support application-level and point-in-time recovery activities.
- Coordinate Business Continuity Planning (BCP) exercises and infrastructure resilience testing.
- Monitor recovery activities, document outcomes and maintain audit evidence.
- Identify recovery gaps, track issues and coordinate remediation actions.
- Work with global technology stakeholders to strengthen infrastructure and cyber resilience.
Qualifications
- 7+ years' experience in enterprise infrastructure engineering or operations.
- 4+ years' experience in Disaster Recovery or infrastructure resilience.
Required Skills
- Practical experience coordinating or participating in enterprise DR testing and failover activities.
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies, including servers, storage, networks and databases.
- Knowledge of backup, replication, recovery processes and high availability.
- Experience with Business Continuity, recovery procedures and RTO/RPO.
- Strong communication, coordination and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Skills
- Financial services or banking experience.
- ServiceNow, VMware vRO and Control-M.
- Infrastructure automation and orchestration.
- Cyber recovery or ransomware resilience experience.
Pay range and compensation package
- 12-month initial contract, with potential for extension.
- Dublin-based hybrid working - 3 days per week onsite.
- Occasional planned evening, night or weekend work to support DR exercises.
