IT Disaster Recovery & Resilience Lead

Baxter International Inc.; Región Centro; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Baxter International Inc. in Guadalajara, Mexico, seeks a skilled professional to drive disaster recovery planning and testing across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.

You will coordinate testing, develop schedules, track issues, and partner with system owners and engineering teams to improve recovery readiness and governance. Strong communication and project management are essential, with audit/regulatory experience valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Engineering or related field.
• Disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Tabletop exercise planning and facilitation.
• Project and program management.
• Technical writing and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise coordination of application recovery testing activities.
• Develop annual testing schedules, tracking risks, issues and dependencies.
• Partner with System Owners and technical teams to define test scope and objectives.
• Facilitate test planning, execution and post-test reviews.
• Track remediation actions and drive closure of findings.
• Support the development, maintenance and governance of Disaster Recovery Plans.
• Assist System Owners in documenting recovery procedures and objectives.
• Maintain centralized repositories for recovery plans and evidence.
• Coordinate disaster recovery tabletop exercises and reports.
• Document lessons learned and support resilience assessments.
• Develop dashboards, scorecards and executive summaries.
• Track testing completion, actions and program performance.
• Support audit, regulatory and governance activities related to DR.
• Present test results and program updates to management.
• Collaborate across applications, infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity and business teams.
• Support continuous improvement of recovery planning and testing processes.
• Other responsibilities as requested by management.

Skills

Disaster Recovery

Business Continuity

Project Coordination

Stakeholder Management

Technical Writing

Executive Communication

Analytical Thinking

Cross-functional Collaboration

Cloud (AWS)

Regulated Environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

ITIL Foundation

PMP

CAPM

CBCP

AWS Cloud Practitioner

Job description

Baxter International Inc. in Guadalajara, Mexico, seeks a skilled professional to drive disaster recovery planning and testing across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.

You will coordinate testing, develop schedules, track issues, and partner with system owners and engineering teams to improve recovery readiness and governance. Strong communication and project management are essential, with audit/regulatory experience valued.