Disaster Recovery Coordinator

AFFIN Group; Cyberjaya; On-site; MYR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated professional to lead disaster recovery planning and execution. In this pivotal role, you will manage and enhance disaster recovery strategies, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices. You will work closely with various teams to document and test recovery plans for critical applications, while also providing insights and recommendations for continuous improvement. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact within a dynamic organization, where your expertise will help safeguard the business's resilience against disruptions. If you are a critical thinker with strong problem-solving abilities and a passion for disaster recovery, we want to hear from you!

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields required.
• Relevant disaster recovery certification is a must.

Responsibilities

• Manage disaster recovery planning, execution, and testing.
• Coordinate with teams for disaster recovery activities.

Skills

Disaster Recovery Planning

Crisis Management Planning

Incident Response Planning

Business Resumption Planning

Problem-Solving Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Business Continuity Certification (CBCP/ABCP/DRCS)

Job description

Create your future with Affin! You too can make a difference.

Join us at AFFIN, where the open minds meet and be inspired by a shared commitment to great work. Here, you don’t just stay at the forefront of the industry – you can make a difference too.

Accountabilities

1. Perform DR planning, development, program execution, maintenance and testing.
2. Manage risk, controls and compliance management, supporting BC/DR audit and examination activities, and development & maintenance of policies, standards & procedures that are aligned with BNM requirement and the best industry standards.
3. Coordinate with all business and support teams bank-wide in any DR related activities.
4. Ensure that IT DR for all critical applications have been fully documented and tested based on their respective DR cycle requirement.
5. Review and maintenance of disaster recovery policy, strategy, standards and processes that can be used to recover all the critical system within required time frames.
6. Provide periodic or ad-hoc reporting and tracking of disaster recovery related issues and remediation activities.
7. Coordinate with all the relevant support teams and business to be able to support the recovery objectives of the organization.
8. Assist Head DR in designing, coordinating and executing BCP/DR annual test exercises for critical business processes, and produce test reports including lessons learned. Coordinate follow up on lessons as required based on the Post Test Report.
9. Review the Business Criticality Definition (BCD), recovery priorities, timelines, and strategy for proper sequence of recovery components.
10. Continuously (minimally yearly) review existing and proposed plans for recoverability effectiveness and identify opportunities for improvement.
11. Assist Crisis Management / Incident Management teams during service disruption events and contribute to process improvement initiatives.

Job Requirements

1. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields.
2. Relevant Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery certification, i.e. CBCP/ABCP or DRCS etc.
3. Experience in any of the following BCP framework components:
4. Business Resumption Planning
5. Crisis Management Planning
6. Incident Response Planning
7. Disaster Recovery Planning
8. Plan Exercising/Testing
9. Conducting BIAs
10. Financial Services/Banking industry experience is advantageous.
11. Knowledge and experience in performing assessments aligned with the best practices.
12. Ability to work independently, effectively manage competing demands and priorities.
13. Ability to interact with a variety of internal and external people in a professional manner that creates confidence in his/her knowledge and abilities and helps foster mutually satisfactory resolution to control gaps and issues.
14. Ability to build positive relationships across multiple stakeholders, senior leadership team, and department heads, etc.
15. Must be a critical thinker, with strong problem-solving skills.