Business Continuity Specialist

Responsibility:

• You are responsible to react to a critical failure of an application or a datacenter.
• You collaborate to the embedding of rules defined by Regulators such as the European Central Bank, Belgium National Bank & our Group Policies.
• You are responsible of a set of activities ensuring our reactivity during a critical application failure.
• In collaboration with the Application owner, you manage and follow-up the delivery and validation of Application Impact Analysis (AIA), Continuity Run Book (CRB), Disaster Recovery (DR) Unitary Exercise documents and the potential gaps in those deliverables.
• You are the main contact for several tribes for all resiliency topics.
• Changes within their infra and application landscape impacting one of the deliverables.
• Progress on AIA, CRB, DR Unitary Exercises
• Validation of the CRB and their readiness.
• Detailed capacity study for all the infrastructure components involved within our two data centers.
• Close collaboration with our different stakeholders to prepare and collect required information.
• Plan the DR exercises by identifying risks and preparing a mitigation plan
• Help to build the Master Run Book (MRB), collection all actions from all needed CRBs.
• You facilitate during the execution of the DR exercise (in practice: during night and weekend three times a year)

Skills Required:

• You have 5 years’ experience as a resiliency engineer or were previously a security engineer, OPS engineer or Architect.
• You have (at least) a strong interest in the Resiliency domain or can give a clear overview of resiliency expectations and challenges to stakeholders.
• Can review / validate the architecture and technical diagrams on resiliency topics.
• Hands on experience in one or multiple of the following domains:

Windows

Linux

Mainframe

Cloud

Application development

Databases

Middleware

Highlight your strengths

• You’re the physical embodiment of the scrum values: involvement, focus, openness, and respect, with a good dose of courage to boot.
• You’re inquisitive and driven—and you’re always on the ball.
• You thrive in a team environment, happily sharing your knowledge and insights.
• You are quick to make connections and dare to question everything that deserves it.
• You’re able to work under pressure.
• You always search to improve yourself by learning new technologies, methodologies and/or how to be a better you.
• You are excited by having responsibilities, making decisions & vulgarizing them.