Data Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Manager

Florida International University is a top public university that drives real talent and innovation in Miami and globally. Very high research (R1) activity and high social mobility come together at FIU to uplift and accelerate learner success in a global city by focusing in the areas of environment, health, innovation, and justice. Today, FIU has two campuses and multiple centers. FIU serves a diverse student body of more than 56,000 and 290,000 Panther alumni. U.S. News and World Report places dozens of FIU programs among the best in the nation, including international business at No. 2. Washington Monthly Magazine ranks FIU among the top 20 public universities contributing to the public good.

Develops risk management procedures, business continuance scenarios, contingency and disaster recovery plans for the Division of IT. This role is more than a highly technical resource; although it has no direct reports, the focus is on management of processes and procedures involving all aspects of technology service delivery related to business continuity and disaster recovery with high strategic importance to the University campus having university-wide impact. Assists for the planning, managing and completion of projects for the Division of Information Technology (IT) involving a wide variety of technologies and functional areas.

• Performs all disaster recovery planning for the Division of IT.
• Maintains Division of IT emergency response procedures including being a resource in directing emergency response during emergency situations.
• Works with customers and functional areas to gather requirements and develop project management plans.
• Develops and communicates meeting minutes, presentations,
• status reports and other project related documentation.
• Identifies, tracks, monitors and communicates project-related issues, changes and variances during implementation of IT projects.
• Conducts periodic and annual disaster recovery tests and desktop exercises. Tests plans with various operational and support groups in IT.
• Review and evaluate the lessons learned from the tests, exercise, and incidents, and recommend and document improvements.
• Conduct root cause analysis meetings for incidents and outages. Document mitigations and improvements.
• Identifies and makes recommendations regarding critical points of
• failure.
• Develops and implements policies, guidelines and procedures for business continuance and disaster recovery plans.
• Works with IT Managers to review the continuity of operations plans and is responsible for making sure plans are updated annually.
• Collaborate with IT teams, academic departments, and administrative units to identify critical systems and functions that require continuity planning.
• Ensures monitoring and testing of business continuance procedures; ensures response to system failures and is proactive in building processes to minimize/ eliminate downtime.
• Develops service level risk management agreements with the business and with vendor to ensure service level agreement meet business continuance and disaster recovery planning requirements.
• Conducts disaster recovery training.
• Assists in disaster recovery support. Provides support in the event of an incident or disruption of service and facilitate in the restoration of the service.
• Stays updated on emerging threats and technologies to continuously improve disaster recovery capabilities.
• Performs essential duties during any emergencies, such as hurricanes, storms and/or any other University emergency closing. The employee is expected to be available to report to work as needed during University emergency closings with appropriate notification by department administrator.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with four (4) years of experience in disaster recovery/business resumption planning and/or related field.

• Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP) designation or equivalent highly desired.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification desired.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of current disaster recovery planning techniques and technologies required.

• Administrative

• $75,000 - $80,000

Begin time: 8:30 AM
End time: 5:00 PM

• Expanded Background Check

Prospective Employee

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To be considered eligible for the position as an internal candidate, departmental staff must meet minimum requirements of the position and be in good performance standing.

Before you begin the process, we recommend that you are prepared to attach electronic copies of your resume, cover letter or any other documents within the application process. It is recommended that you combine your cover letter and resume/curriculum vitae into one attachment. Attached documents should be in Microsoft Word or PDF format. All applicants are required to complete the online application including work history and educational details (if applicable), even when attaching a resume.

*This posting will close at 12:00 am of the close date.

Current Employee

As a current employee, you must log into Employee Self Service (ESS) to apply for this and any other internal career opportunity of interest. In this account, you are able to track your applicant status in "My Applications".

To be considered eligible for the position as an internal candidate, departmental staff must meet minimum requirements of the position and be in good performance standing.

Before you begin the process, we recommend that you are prepared to attach electronic copies of your resume/ curriculum vitae, cover letter or any other documents within the application process. It is recommended that you combine your cover letter and resume into one attachment. Attached documents should be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.

*This posting will close at 12:00 am of the close date.

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