Project Manager-Resiliency Services jobs in Bangalore at IBM

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
As Recovery Management Consultant, you are responsible for the development and maintenance of Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) for IBM’s Strategic Outsourcing Customers. The disaster recovery plans must be viable and exercised demonstrating to management the organization's ability to continue data processing operations following a disruption of services. You are responsible to lead the recovery effort in the event of an outage emergency.
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Responsibilities

Plan Development:

Develop Disaster Recovery Plans to meet client’s defined and contracted DR objectives
Coordinate IBM delivery team efforts in the development of new DR plans
Coordinate 3^rd parties, as required, to meet DR plan requirements
Work with clients to ensure they understand the limitations and exclusions of their DR plans
Work with the IBM Account Teams to ensure they understand their DR responsibilities as they relate to their client

Exercise Execution:

Develop exercise objectives with client input
Schedule the DR exercise
Develop and publish the Pre-Exercise Report to outline exercise objectives and details
Develop the exercise timeline
Hold pre-exercise meetings with all delivery teams to ensure individual responsibilities and tasks are understood
Project manage the DR exercise including coordination of all delivery teams and tracking of the recovery timeline
Develop and publish the Post Exercise Report to document the results of the exercise
Develop the action plan to follow-up and close all outstanding actions from the exercise

Plan Maintenance:

On a regular basis (as outlined the client contract) review and maintain the existing DR plans
Ensure all action items from the previous exercise have been closed
Ensure all changes to the environment since the last exercise are incorporated into the DR Plan
Make suggestions for improvement of existing DR Plans to both the client and IBM Account Teams as appropriate

Outage Emergency:

Working in conjunction with the IBM Account Team, recover the assigned clients per contractual commitments
Handover the recovered environment to the IBM steady state delivery teams
Assist in the development of plans to return to the home environment

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Minimum 5+ years of experience in IT Industry
Working knowledge of Mainframe & distributed data or applications recovery in a DR test environment
At least 3 years’ experience in Disaster Recovery
Project Management methodology experience
Proficient in Disaster Recovery Plan development
Exposure across multiple platforms, processes or architecture
DRI certification preferred
Proven verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be a self-starter, motivated to enhance and expand Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity skills
Expertise to work effectively as part of a team and be able to guide and influence fellow team members through initiative and active participation
Ability to recognize and articulate Client issues/problems related to the Disaster Recovery process
Solid problem solving/decision making skills.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Proficient in working with high availability environment
You love collaborative environments that use agile methodologies to encourage creative design thinking and find innovative ways to develop with cutting edge technologies
Ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with creative approach to work
Intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management
Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
Up-to-date technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications

About Business Unit
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