At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.
We are looking for a Disaster Recovery Systems Engineer to join the Technology Operations Resiliency - Technical Attestation & Planning team to lead numerous DR Exercise planning activities ensuring Schwab will continue to deliver service to clients and employees in the event of Data Center or regional disasters; and ensuring performance attestation and continuous improvement of DR capabilities. The ideal candidate shares our passion for technology, innovation, excellence and enjoys fast-paced environments and embraces change passionately. The candidate will work alongside a team of engineers and analysts responsible for leading training for quarterly DR Exercises, participate in after-hours quarterly DR Exercises, scheduling, testing, supporting DR related data quality initiatives, evaluating, and reporting results of Disaster Recovery activities across all of STS development and infrastructure communities.
What you haveTo ensure that we fulfill our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.
Required Qualifications:
Lead quarterly DR Exercise trainings, Planning meetings, Voice of Customer Retro meetings, and Office Hour meetingsServe as the Agile development team member to participate in pre-exercise DR Plan readiness & post-exercise failure remediation activitiesWork within the TOR standard operating processes to deliver DR product and services, ensuring work you're doing is done wellEnforce the Disaster Recovery (DR) Standard, and guide clients in the use of standard methodologiesPerform detailed analytic activities related to DR Standard consistencyDeliver ongoing feedback regarding risk management, mitigation, and preventionActively participate in working sessions to address DR Exercise failures and issues including measurement of Recovery Time Objective (RTO)Continually improve internal DR processes utilizing constantly evolving requirements and technologies availableDemonstrate excellent judgment with the ability to navigate ambiguityMake good decisions and identify issuesProvide possible solutions and know when to escalate mattersSelf-starter takes initiative to work independently
Preferred Qualifications:
5+ years of demonstrated experience dedicated to IT infrastructure systems specifically systems engineering5+ years in Disaster Recovery operations and management5+ years of experience in Public Cloud deploymentDetailed knowledge of current Disaster Recovery planning techniques and technologies as well as the methods used in performing risk and business impact analysisMust be comfortable to act as liaison for TOR and examination of Disaster Recovery PlansExperience managing medium - large projects simultaneously using well developed sound project management skillsExperience working in multi-functional IT teamsIn-depth understanding of current recovery solutions, high availability architectures and mainframe architectures as is knowledge of crisis communication solutions is beneficialAbility to plan, organize, and lead the testing of emergency response, recovery support, on time delivery and business resumption procedures using attention to detailDCO / ITO operations background is recommendedUnderstanding of elementary IT server & network (IP, LB, Firewall) principles is criticalExperience establishing, managing, and communicating with application Subject Matter Experts, working to cultivate positive relationshipsStrategic problem solver with strong analytical skillsStrong time management and organization skills Requires excellent oral and written communication skills to convey plans, exercises, and activitiesTroux, xMatters, MIR3 working experience is beneficial MS Office Suite, MS Project, SharePoint, Remedy, 3+ years of delivering results using an Agile Framework (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and Atlassian (Jira/Confluence/BitBucket/Bamboo/Github) Options Apply for this jobApplyShareRefer a friendRefer Sorry the Share function is not working properly at this moment. Please refresh the page and try again later. Share on your newsfeed Why work for us?Own Your Tomorrow embodies everything we do! We are committed to helping our employees ignite their potential and achieve their dreams. Our employees get to play a central role in reinventing a multi-trillion-dollar industry, creating a better, more modern way to build and manage wealth.
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