Sr. Executive - Disaster Recovery Analyst

Rehlko; Pune District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Rehlko is seeking a Disaster Recovery Analyst to enhance the organization’s DR and Business Continuity capabilities. You will develop, maintain and validate DR plans, perform BIAs, and coordinate recovery exercises across datacenter, cloud, and application environments.

The role requires strong technical knowledge of backup/recovery technologies, recovery runbooks, and governance, with collaboration across infrastructure, security, and business units to ensure audit-ready DR programs.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in disaster recovery and business continuity
• Experience with DR plans, runbooks, and recovery procedures
• Knowledge of RTOs, RPOs, and risk assessment
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain DRPs, runbooks, SOPs, and recovery handbooks
• Document dependencies, escalation paths and ownership details
• Define and validate RTOs and RPOs with stakeholders
• Plan and coordinate DR drills and validation exercises
• Document test results and track remediation actions
• Coordinate with infrastructure, network, security, and application teams for DR processes
• Drive continuous improvement of recovery capabilities and governance

Job description

Job Summary

Role Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Disaster Recovery Analyst to support and enhance the organization's Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity capabilities. The role will be responsible for developing, maintaining and validating disaster recovery plans, conducting recovery exercises, performing Business Impact Analyses (BIA) and ensuring the recoverability of critical business applications and infrastructure.

Candidate should possess strong technical expertise across datacenter infrastructure, cloud environments, application architectures, backup and recovery technologies and business continuity processes. This role requires close collaboration with infrastructure, network, security, application, and business stakeholders to maintain an effective and audit-ready DR program.

Responsibilities

Disaster Recovery Planning & Documentation

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs), recovery runbooks, standard operating procedures, and recovery handbooks for business-critical systems and applications.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation of recovery procedures, dependencies, escalation paths, and ownership details.
• Ensure DR documentation remains current and aligned with infrastructure and application changes.

Recovery Strategy & Governance

• Define, document, and validate Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) in collaboration with business and technology stakeholders.
• Assess recovery capabilities against business requirements and recommend improvements where gaps exist.
• Ensure compliance with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices related to Technical Disaster Recovery.

Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

• Facilitate and conduct Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) across business units.
• Identify critical business services, application dependencies, infrastructure components, and recovery priorities.
• Document recovery requirements, acceptable downtime, and operational impact assessments.

DR Testing & Validation

• Plan, schedule, coordinate, and execute Disaster Recovery drills, tabletop exercises, failover tests, and full-scale recovery exercises.
• Validate recovery procedures and system recoverability against established RTO and RPO objectives.
• Document test results, identify gaps, track remediation activities, and ensure closure of action items.
• Produce management reports highlighting readiness status and improvement opportunities.

Infrastructure & Application Recovery Management

• Understand and document backup infrastructure, replication technologies, failover clustering, high-availability architectures, and cloud-based recovery environments.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Network, Database, Security, Cloud, and Application teams to validate recovery processes.
• Ensure infrastructure & application recovery procedures are accurate, tested and recoverable during DR scenarios.
• Maintain inventory of critical systems, dependencies, recovery tiers, and recovery sequences.

Stakeholder Coordination

• Engage with technology and business stakeholders to gather information required for DR planning and testing.
• Coordinate periodic reviews to ensure recovery documentation remains current and aligned to system changes.
• Act as a central point of contact for DR program activities and recovery exercises.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify risks, gaps, and opportunities to strengthen organizational resilience.
• Recommend enhancements to recovery processes, automation capabilities, backup strategies, and recovery architectures.
• Support audit, compliance, and regulatory reviews related to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity.

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