Associate Consultant, IT Disaster Recovery

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KPMG is currently seeking an Associate Consultant, IT Disaster Recovery to join our Digital Nexus organization.

IT Disaster Recovery Associate Consultant should assist with Disaster Recovery Exercises planning/execution process and collaborate in recovery activities coordination during actual events. Working together with SMEs and stakeholders from applications teams to develop and manage Disaster Recovery Plans, as well as implementing controls to increase the resiliency for critical applications. Participates in IT Disaster Recovery improvements program and innovation projects related to the IT DR services offered.

- Minimum 2-4 years of recent experience and supporting highly available resilient / active-active failover ready applications in an IT-DR environment.
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university; or equivalent work experience
- Experience Leading or Supporting IT-DR Test, Scoring and Auditing of IT-DR Tests.
- Experience with Azure Cloud; familiarity with SaaS
- Competent in site recovery engineering concepts pertaining to networking, storage, compute, database, middleware, cloud, and resilient application (local and geographic redundancy)
- Strong verbal/written communication, effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and authority; must be able to prioritize, delegate and foster the development of high-performance teams to lead/support an environment driven by customer service and teamwork.
- Ability to prioritize and to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience with Service Now’s BCM module is a plus.
- Ability with problem-solving and finding solutions.
- Experience with Scrum /Kanban Agile methodologies.
- Adaptable and open to change based on business needs.

Ability to understand business needs and translate them into initiatives for service improvements.