Resiliency & Disaster Recovery Specialist

University of Chicago

United States

Hybrid

USD 125,000 - 135,000

Full time

8 days ago

A complete application in a minute

Tailored resume and cover letter, ready to send.

Get past ATS filters

Job summary

The University of Chicago is seeking a Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Specialist to advance the university's technology resiliency program within the Information Security Office. You will develop recovery strategy, coordinate testing, and report recovery risk to leadership while ensuring backup, RTO/RPO targets, and isolation from production.

You will work with campus partners, cloud and third-party providers, and incident response teams to plan and execute recovery exercises, verify intact

Qualifications

Education: college/university degree in a related field.
Work Experience: 5–7 years in a related job discipline.
Certifications: ---

Responsibilities

Develop IT resiliency strategy and multi-year roadmap.
Maintain backup and recovery standards including backup immutability, isolation, encryption, retention, and testing frequency.
Define RTOs and RPOs with system owners and business continuity.
Coordinate recovery tests and tabletop exercises for conventional outages and cyber scenarios.
Report resiliency metrics to CISO and leadership.

Skills

Disaster recovery

IT resiliency

Incident response

Identity & access management

NIST CSF familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, information security, or related field

Tools

Enterprise backup platforms (Commvault, NetBackup, Rubrik, Cohesity)

Immutable backup storage

VMware Site Recovery Manager

Cloud recovery services (AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, AWS Backup, Azure Site Recovery)

Job description

You will work with campus partners, cloud and third-party providers, and incident response teams to plan and execute recovery exercises, verify intact

Get your free, confidential resume review.

or drag and drop your file here.