Disaster Recovery Expert

TAWANTECH; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The ideal candidate will develop DR plans, lead drills, and coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure regulatory alignment and system readiness. A Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Engineering is required.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Disaster Recovery

IT Resilience

Leadership

Banking Experience

DR Architecture

Cloud

Virtualization

Backup

High Availability

RTO/RPO

Education

Bachelors in IT/CS/Engineering

Job description

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.

• 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.