Manager - Backup and Disaster Recovery, Contract To Hire

Overview of 66degrees

66degrees is a leading consulting and professional services company specializing in developing AI-focused, data-led solutions leveraging the latest advancements in cloud technology. With our unmatched engineering capabilities and vast industry experience, we help the world's leading brands transform their business challenges into opportunities and shape the future of work.

Overview of Role

66degrees is seeking an Manager - Backup and Disaster Recovery to engage on a Contract To Hire opportunity (6 months) remote assignment with one of our clients in the insurance domain.

The Manager of Backup and Disaster Recovery will be a hands-on contributor responsible for overseeing and managing the IT organization’s backup and disaster recovery (DR) technology and processes. This role involves close collaboration with various application, infrastructure, security, compliance, and support teams to implement and develop backup and DR plans, ensuring the recoverability of services within agreed timeframes and recovery points.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage the technology used for backup and disaster recovery both on- premises and in the cloud.
• Assist in the evaluation and implementation of various on-premises and cloud-based backup and disaster recovery solutions for AWS, Azure, and Nutanix.
• Identify through change management and/or projects how changes to the IT environment will impact backup and DR plans.
• Provide technical guidance to various projects around backup and DR.
• Develop a framework for backup and DR to encompass all IT infrastructure and applications, including evaluation criteria, standard blueprints, and the backup and DR lifecycle.
• Collaborate with various technical teams to create, document, and test backup/restore and DR processes and procedures, including runbooks for each technology/application.
• Work with application hosting vendors to document and audit their DR plans.
• Collaborate with Security/Compliance teams to ensure DR and Backup/Recovery activities meet all compliance and audit requirements.
• Develop and document RTO, RPO, and SLAs around backup and DR in accordance with all IT and Security/Compliance policies.
• Reporting, Metrics, and Improvement:
• Lead tabletop exercises and DR event tests to ensure accuracy and identify areas for improvement.
• Compile and report on KPIs and metrics related to backup and DR activities.
• Provide thought leadership around backup and DR technology.
• Manage multiple assignments and priorities in a fast-paced, maturing IT organization.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors such as teamwork, customer focus, continuous improvement, and innovation.

Qualifications:

• Experience as a technical lead on projects and initiatives that included a backup and/or DR component.
• 4+ years of experience with industry-standard backup and disaster recovery products, such as Cohesity.
• 4+ years of experience with various infrastructure technologies:
• Virtualization: Nutanix
• Cloud: AWS (EC2, EBS, RDS) and Azure in multi-region, multi-account implementations
• Storage: Nutanix, NetApp cloud and on-premises SAN and NAS devices
• Systems: Windows, O365, MS SQL, Azure, and on-prem Active Directory
• Data Center and Cloud networking: Palo Alto Firewalls, AWS VPCs, MPLS, SD- WAN, and other enterprise networking concepts
• 2 years of experience with ITIL (Change, Problem, and Incident) standards and concepts (preferably in ServiceNow).
• 1 year of experience reporting on metrics and status of activities.
• Knowledge of scripting and automation (PowerShell, VBScript, Python, AWS CloudFormation).

66degrees is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status or other legally protected class.