Disaster Recovery and Resilience Specialist (1043)- Department of Technology

In the Department of Technology, Office of Cybersecurity, the Disaster Recovery and Resilience Specialist plays a key role in the preparation and execution of the Technology Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity/ Continuity of Operations Plans. 

Major functions in this role include (and are not limited to):

• Work with City departments to plan, design, and test the resilience solutions for all critical City systems to support the citywide technology resilience program

• Conduct detailed Technology Risk assessment and Business Impact Analysis 

• Review City departments completed Technology Risk and Business Impact Analysis for completeness

• Develop resilience reports that identify gaps and recommendations from Technology Risk assessment and Business Impact Analysis

• Maintains knowledge on the current and emerging developments/trends for IT Disaster Recovery technology and resilience solutions

• Collaborate with technical engineering teams to understand the evolving architectures to plan, design and test the resilience solutions

• Collaborate with technical, non-technical, and management stakeholders

• Review and provide recommendations for client departments Technology Disaster recovery Plans and Business Continuity/ Continuity of Operations Plans

• Develop and maintain Business Continuity/ Continuity of Operations Plans for the department and each division

• Review the completeness of technology recovery plans and procedures for critical technology systems and applications for completeness

• Design, plan, coordinate and execute technology resilience test/exercise with recovery teams for all critical technology systems and applications

• Support natural, human-caused and technology disaster/emergencies during the activations of Emergency Operations Center/Department Operation Center