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Disaster Recovery Expert
TAWANTECH · Riyadh
Riyadh · On-siteFull-TimePosted Sep 9, 2026
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We are seeking a Disaster Recovery Expert - Supervisor/Lead with 5+ years of experience, including mandatory banking or financial services experience. The role will lead and oversee Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, and Business Continuity activities for critical banking systems and technology services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain DR strategies, plans, procedures, and recovery runbooks
- Define and maintain RTO/RPO for critical systems
- Lead DR drills, simulations, failover/failback, and recovery testing
- Coordinate with infrastructure, network, cybersecurity, application, database, cloud, and business teams
- Ensure DR environments, backup, replication, HA, and recovery capabilities are operational and compliant
- Conduct risk assessments, BIA, and root-cause analysis for DR issues
- Ensure alignment with banking regulations, audit requirements, and IT governance
- Manage DR vendors and provide regular readiness and risk reports to management
- Lead and mentor DR/technical teams
Requirements
- 5+ years in Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, Infrastructure, or Business Continuity
- Mandatory banking experience
- Previous Lead/Supervisor experience preferred
- Strong knowledge of DR architecture, data centers, cloud, virtualization, backup, replication, and high availability
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
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