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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Disaster Recovery Coordinator
Location: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 2008-03-13
Information Services Consultant – Disaster Recovery Services
Newberry Group Employee-Onsite at Government Site in Kansas City
The qualified candidate must be well versed in the technical areas of disaster
recovery planning, and business resumption planning for information technology
operations. The qualified candidate shall have expert level experience in:
developing and maintaining IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) Plans, coordinating ITDR
exercise, developing ITDR test and exercise plans, auditing tests and exercises
in order to determine weaknesses, strengths, and remedial actions required to
ensure effective recovery capabilities for a large Federal data center, and
preparing after action assessments, reports and lessons learned.
The qualified candidate must have expert experience in using business
continuity planning software, preferably Strohl Systems LDRPS, be highly
proficient using MS-Word, MS-Excel and MS-Projects software, and possess strong
abilities in technical writing, meeting facilitation and presentation.
If needed, pre-authorized travel would occur outside of the standard work
hours.
1. Coordinate with system owners to develop new and assist in the
recurring maintenance of established disaster recovery plans for client’s
general support systems and major applications. The general support systems and
major applications reside on both mainframe and midrange platforms. Coordinate
with system owners to develop and maintain sections of disaster recovery plans
for customer- owned dedicated IT systems.
2. Maintain call trees and coordinate and conduct alert and notification
drills (call trees) and prepare after action reports and track remedial
actions. Includes the compilation of call success reports for presentation to
client’s management.
3. Develop IT disaster recovery test schedules, test plans, and after
action reports. Coordinate and track remedial actions following tests,
training, and exercises.
4. Plan, coordinate and conduct all elements of disaster recovery testing
including table top and full-scale functional exercises for mainframe, midrange
and network platforms.
5. Conduct planning meetings with technical systems personnel to gather
requirements and data required for the creation and documentation of IT
disaster recovery plans for multiple hardware platforms.
6. Conduct business impact analysis for IT systems. Includes the ability
to develop survey questions, ascertain mission critical business processes,
assist system owners in arriving at realistic recovery time and recovery point
objectives and the development of disaster recovery strategies and DR plans
stemming from BIA analysis.
7. Assist in the development and update of contingency-related security
accreditation documents for IT systems.
8. Assist in preparing various reports for internal and external auditors
and regulatory bodies.
9. Develop and make presentations regarding contingency management
practices. Presentations could be in the form of classroom training, workshops,
formal or informal briefings. Presentations could be developed using slides or
e-training tools.
10. Actively participate in staff status meetings.
11. Participate in special initiatives or projects where contingency
planning expertise is required. For example, contribute to sections of
technical proposal for new or re-competed business, solicitation of alternate
facilities, or off-site storage services. Assist in the planning and
implementation of new DR strategies. Assist in the publication and distribution
of contingency planning documents.
12. Coordinate the maintenance of vital records for disaster recovery
purposes.
13. Use the Tivoli Information/Management INFO/MAN as required ascertaining
the status of problem, change and incident management. Add and update INFO/MAN
records as necessary.
Note: All contingency plans will be developed and maintained in Strohl Systems
LDRPS. Expert proficiency in building and maintaining plans in LDRPS or
similar DR planning software is a high priority for this position.
2.2 KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
The employee shall adhere to the following governmental regulations and
guidelines as it relates to continuity of operations: Executive Orders 12656,
12472, 10480, Presidential Decision Directives 39, 56, 62, 63, Federal
Preparedness Circulars 65, HSPD-20, Code of Federal Regulation 1236, National
Strategy for Pandemic Influenza, NIST Guides 800-34, 36, 53, Departmental
Regulation Series 3500, FISMA 199, OMB A-123 and OMB A-130.
The employee shall review the following government criteria acceptance plan.
Provide a quality control/quality assurance (QC/QA) plan in response to
government criteria acceptance plan.
All tasks and documents must meet professional and government standards for
completeness, accuracy, and timeliness. The employee shall perform the work
specified in this PWS in accordance with existing agency policy, procedures,
guidelines, professional standards, and agreements with customers. The
employee shall adhere to government's procedures for security procedures,
change management, certification and accreditation procedures, critical
processing hours, acceptable time frames for problem resolution, and procedures
for system/application maintenance. This is especially critical when customer
pre-approval is required or there is a potential impact to other systems. Any
deviations from established procedures shall be immediately related to the COTR
and COR.
The employee shall provide daily, on-going knowledge and technical transfer and
informal training to the assigned client’s Technical staff (includes both
Government and non-Government individuals) regarding:
Disaster recovery strategies, plans, testing, assessment of client-owned
general support systems and major applications and customer-owned computer
systems.
The Technical staff will consist of three to four individuals from the Security
Staff, and coordination with other staff throughout the client’s
organization. Both verbal and written communications will be used by the
employee to transfer knowledge and skills to the assigned technical staff.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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CONTACT
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please email resumes to: rbarrett@thenewberrygroup.com
Rob Barrett
rbarrett@thenewberrygroup.com
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