Manager, Disaster Recovery at MTN Nigeria in Ikoyi, Lagos

Purpose

• Formulate and preserve the IT disaster recovery strategy  
• To organize the execution of common Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery methods; to operate closely with Information Tech (IT) employees to assess, endorse and execute authorized Disaster Recovery plan. 
• To assist the entire Business Continuity Management process by making sure that the necessary IT technical and solutions facilities can be recovered within necessary, and accepted, business timescales. 
• Making sure that the Disaster Recovery facilities and solutions are always in prepared state to sustain the business and in the event of a disaster with the same level of solutions and accessibility. 

Duties

• Executes business continuity and disaster recovery organizing and evaluation for medium to multifaceted tasks. 
• Collaborate with Business Continuity management to guarantee that the disaster recovery (crisis management) and business continuity strategies lead disaster recovery (DR) plan and standardized processes. 
• Establish and preserve the entire strategies for carrying out all DR standardized processes and comprehend their interdependencies. 
• Establish and preserve thorough DR communications and command and regulate strategies through a adjustment management process. 
• Collaborate with the IT specialists to guarantee that disaster recovery initiatives are adequate, in place, preserved, and tested as part of the consistent business life cycle. 
• Formulate and comprehend all running test necessary for a successful DR implementation. 
• Timetable and head all DR exercises. 
• Offer ongoing response for risk mitigation strategy, risk reduction, and prevention. 
• Stand for disaster recovery cost qualifications in the yearly financial planning process. 
• Routinely documentation Disaster Recovery initiatives to upper management.
• Facilitate communication for auditing and examination of disaster recovery methods. 
• Works on various projects as a head on business continuity and disaster recovery organizing parts. 
• Serves as a domain specialist in disaster recovery and business continuity organizing 
• Formulate and execute a strategy to offer collapse-over capacity of all purpose critical servers, applications and networks from service-based implementation.
• Oversee and leverage IT Bachelor's degree's connection with its key vendors, which includes daily communications and synchronization. This comprises the project setup and enforcement of the embedment of business continuity KPIs in IT agreements.

Qualifications Education:

Bsc or Higher national diploma in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Operational structures, a relevant field, and equivalent work expertise.  Fluent in English