A global leader in
consulting, technology services and digital transformation, Capgemini is at the
forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of clients’ opportunities
in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms. Building on its strong
50-year heritage and deep industry-specific expertise, Capgemini enables
organizations to realize their business ambitions through an array of services
from strategy to operations. Capgemini is driven by the conviction that the
business value of technology comes from and through people. It is a
multicultural company of over 200,000 team members in more than 40 countries.
The Group reported 2018 global revenues of EUR 13.2 billion.
About Infrastructure
Services :
The Cloud Infrastructure
Services Global Business Line is Capgemini’s consulting and infrastructure
build-and-run provisioning offering, and supports the group’s cloud-based
services. As part of the integrated cloud offering from Capgemini, Cloud
Infrastructure Services delivers a broad range of cloud services to build and
support the hybrid cloud estate by encompassing the leading public cloud
players and leading private cloud technologies. With EUR 1.5 billion annual
revenue, Cloud Infra Services helps clients virtualize and optimize their IT
estates through infrastructure outsourcing services such as data center,
helpdesk, network support, and service integration and service maintenance
support. Our other services also include infrastructure transformation services-helping
clients consolidate and migrate entire workloads and data centers.
Disaster Recovery Planner
- 5 years DR/BC experience coordinating recovery
teams, and developing and maintaining recovery plans for service
organizations; - Bachelor’s degree from an accredited
college/university in computer science, computer information systems, or management
information systems in preferred; - Appropriate certification is desirable such as the
DRI (Disaster Recovery Institute) CBCP (Certified Business Continuity
Planner); - Ability to work with, coordinate and provide
guidance to recovery leads and staff; - Good Presentation and Communications Skills;
- Ability to work with ITO management levels within
organization; - Ability to develop and specify ideas and proposals
for implementing and improving the BC DR program; - Experience with Emergency Response Plans, Incident
Command Centers, and BIA’s is desirable; - Knowledge of methodologies for design, execution and
reporting of IT audits - Excellent training and technical writing skills;
- General understanding of the technologies and
business processes that the ITO business depends on to provide services; - Proven competency in use of MS Office applications,
specifically Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and desktop software; - Experience with BCM tools is desirable.
- Maintains high standards of personal integrity, whilst
demonstrating respect for other viewpoints.
Job responsibilities
- Develop and
maintain BC and DR standards, procedures, methodologies and templates; - Develop
testing schedules and gain approval from all stakeholders, including ITO
management, recovery team leads, affected clients, etc.; - Develop and
gain approval for ITO BC and DR Exercise Plans that define the scope,
objectives and performance details of the planned exercises; - Work with
the recovery teams and selected clients to prepare them to execute the Exercise
plan, ensure they have sufficient resources, and are committed to supporting
the exercise and are prepared to achieve all objectives of the exercise; - Coordinate
the execution of the Exercise plans per the execution checklist while collecting
performance data to support reporting of results, identifying issues, and
moving the recovery team toward successful completion of the exercise; - Conduct Post
Exercise meetings with recovery team leads and selected clients to identify and
document issues related to recovery technologies, processes and support
issues; - Identify
root causes of recovery issues and ensure the development and execution of
plans to mitigate the issues so that continuous improvement in the recovery
program is achieved; - Determine if
retesting of the entire exercise plan or selected portions is needed based on
issues encountered; - Produce
summary reports for ITO management and selected clients summarizing the
exercise plans, the actual time frames, the issues identified, the actions
taken to resolve the issues, and future testing to be performed; - Update the
BC and DR plans using the information gathered from the exercise and republish
and distribute to recovery team leads and ITO management as approved; - Maintain
testing and recovery records in a controlled repository, and control access to
and distribution of the results to authorized personnel and organizations; - Perform
appropriate steps as described above for the following conditions; - At least
once a year conduct an exercise to support ongoing testing and maintenance of
the plans, or for compliance with client contracts; - When new
clients or changes in contracts with existing clients change the level of BC
and DR requirements; - When
recovery strategies change that improve the BC and DR recovery process; - Whenever
changes occur in technologies, services, or organizations that result in the
need to improve readiness; - Use the same
or similar recovery activities for an actual and unplanned disaster event as
declared by ITO management.
Job location is in Austin, TX and open candidates willing to relocate
Capgemini is an
Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard
to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion,
disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any
other characteristic protected by law.
This is a general
description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for
this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be
referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position
traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with
disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider
reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or
changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do
not pose an undue hardship.
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link for more information on your rights as an Applicant – http://www.capgemini.com/resources/equal-employment-opportunity-is-the-law
Applicants for
employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now
and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment
authorization in the US by Capgemini.