Disaster Recovery Expert

Posted 11 Days Ago
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Riyadh, SAU
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Information Technology • Payments • Software • Financial Services
The Role
Leads disaster recovery, IT resilience, and business continuity for critical banking systems. Develops recovery strategies, runbooks, RTO/RPO targets, and testing programs; coordinates infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, applications, databases, and business teams. Oversees backup, replication, high availability, and DR environments, conducts risk assessments and business impact analyses, manages vendors, ensures regulatory compliance, reports readiness to management, and mentors technical teams.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are seeking a Disaster Recovery Expert – Supervisor/Lead with 5+ years of experience, including mandatory banking or financial services experience. The role will lead and oversee Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, and Business Continuity activities for critical banking systems and technology services.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain DR strategies, plans, procedures, and recovery runbooks.
  • Define and maintain RTO/RPO for critical systems.
  • Lead DR drills, simulations, failover/failback, and recovery testing.
  • Coordinate with infrastructure, network, cybersecurity, application, database, cloud, and business teams.
  • Ensure DR environments, backup, replication, HA, and recovery capabilities are operational and compliant.
  • Conduct risk assessments, BIA, and root-cause analysis for DR issues.
  • Ensure alignment with banking regulations, audit requirements, and IT governance.
  • Manage DR vendors and provide regular readiness and risk reports to management.
  • Lead and mentor DR/technical teams.

Requirements
  • 5+ years in Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, Infrastructure, or Business Continuity.
  • Mandatory banking experience.
  • Previous Lead/Supervisor experience preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of DR architecture, data centers, cloud, virtualization, backup, replication, and high availability.
  • Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of experience in Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, Infrastructure, or Business Continuity
  • Banking or financial services experience
  • Strong knowledge of disaster recovery architecture, data centers, cloud, virtualization, backup, replication, and high availability
  • Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • Previous lead or supervisor experience
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The Company
HQ: Riyadh
39 Employees

What We Do

We are TAWANTECH, a dynamic and innovative company that specializes in financial technology solutions and services, with a team of passionate professionals and a commitment to excellence, we are dedicated to delivering exceptional solutions that meet the unique needs of our clients.

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