IT Disaster Recovery Specialist - 12 months

The Company

We're partnering with a leading financial services institution and seeking an experienced IT Disaster Recovery Specialist for an exciting 12 months engagement. This role plays a key part in ensuring the bank's systems and platforms can recover quickly and effectively in the event of disruption.

You will work closely with business, technology, and risk teams across regions to plan and execute disaster recovery tests, improve resilience processes, and strengthen overall recovery readiness. This is a highly visible role with exposure to senior stakeholders and global teams, offering a strong mix of coordination, technical understanding, and strategic impact.

The Role

• Plan and deliver end-to-end IT disaster recovery (DR) testing across applications, infrastructure, and data centres.
• Coordinate with business, engineering, and risk teams to ensure successful DR test execution.
• Run workshops to define and validate business and technical recovery requirements.
• Support teams in developing and enhancing disaster recovery plans and recovery runbooks..
• Consolidate DR plans into end-to-end recovery scenarios for complex systems.
• Lead and execute DR tests, including activities outside standard working hours and weekends.
• Track, report, and present DR test outcomes to senior stakeholders.
• Assess current resiliency maturity and identify areas for improvement.
• Drive continuous improvement of IT continuity and disaster recovery processes.
• Act as a subject matter expert and advisor on IT resilience best practices.
• Align DR processes with industry standards and regulatory expectations (e.g. ISO, NIST).
• Collaborate with global teams across APAC, EMEA, US, and LATAM.

Your Profile

• 5+ years of experience in IT within banking or financial services.
• Proven hands-on experience in IT disaster recovery testing.
• Strong understanding of business continuity and IT service management frameworks (ie ITIL).
• Experience working with infrastructure, platforms, and data centre environments (on-prem and/or cloud).
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work across technical and business teams.
• Confident communicator with experience presenting to senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, global environment.
• Well organized with strong coordination and planning skills.
• Relevant certifications (ie CBCI, CBCP) are advantageous.
• Exposure to project management, Agile, DevOps, or application architecture is a plus.

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