Disaster Recovery Expert Supervisor/Lead

TAWANTECH; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 240,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

TAWANTECH is seeking a Disaster Recovery Expert Supervisor Lead with a minimum of five years of experience in disaster recovery, IT resilience, and business continuity. The role focuses on managing DR for critical banking systems, ensuring regulatory alignment and strong IT governance.

The ideal candidate will lead DR strategies, runbooks, and recovery testing while coordinating with infrastructure, network, cybersecurity, and cloud teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, Infrastructure, or Business Continuity.
• Mandatory banking experience.
• Prev. 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.

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 readiness and risk reports to management.
• Lead and mentor DR technical teams.

Skills

Disaster Recovery

IT Resilience

Business Continuity

Banking experience

Leadership

Cloud

Data centers

Virtualization

Education

Bachelor's degree 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

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.