iv. primary responsibilities
• as part of the it continuity team:
• create, develop, & maintain disaster recovery plans to cover in-scope business and it systems
• maintain the corporate dr planning tools such as draip, jira and shared docs such as the team testing schedule
• create, arrange, manage & carry out physical testing of disaster recovery plans by:
o creating and maintaining specific/individual dr test run-books
o negotiating & agreeing the specific date/time to run the tests with their app stakeholders
o creating & progressing formal it change control approvals
o arranging/booking the appropriate test resources
o ensuring pre-test communications are sent out to the business & it users
o managing/co-ordinating the resources (human and technical) during the delivery of each dr test
o gathering & collating dr test results & evidence from their participants
o creating & storing dr test reports to evidence the completion of dr tests
o carrying out dr test re-runs if required
o ensuring dr tests are run in a safe & secure manner ie. productions systems are unaffected
note: testing is carried out mostly on sundays, but also saturdays and weekday evenings
• take direction from, & support the senior disaster recovery specialists with department deliverables as workloads require
• assist business & it projects with dr process information & advice
• escalate identified gaps within the dr environment to the senior dr recovery specialist
• to be aware of bc/dr industry good practice guidelines that may impact bc/dr deliveries;
• comply with ajg professional standards manual in accordance with statutory requirements;
• carry out duties following internal policies and procedures in accordance with applicable laws, rules, regulations, good governance and gallagher’s shared values;
• ad hoc tasks as requested by management;
shift timings: uk shifts
work mode: hybrid