IT Service Continuity Consultant (DR & BCM)

Location: London
Agency: Berkeley Square IT

My client, a leading Management consultancy, is looking for a number of IT Service Continuity Consultants / Senior consultants to join their growing division. The role will involve:

• Re-engineering the business continuity and IT disaster recovery capability for a diverse range of clients
• Improving the IT DR capability, which could include justifying, implementing and testing new IT DR solutions
• Disaster recovery capability review
• Designing and conducting IT DR test plans, up to full data centre fail-over testing
• Developing and implementing IT DR strategies
• Development and roll out of ITIL framework, particularly in the areas of configuration, IT service continuity and incident management
• Integration of disaster recovery plans with business continuity plans
• Management and delivery of disaster recovery exercise programs
• Creation of disaster recovery plans, sequence of events list and procedures
• Performing business impact analysis, risk assessment and gap analysis
• Advising on the suitability, configuration, deployment and use of software tools in support of IT DR management
• Advising on compliance with regulatory and other local and international standards.

In order to be a good match for this position you will have a background in IT disaster recovery and service continuity ideally within Consultancy but this is not essential, solid exposure within a large end user is also desirable. In addition an understanding of Business Continuity, exposure to ITIL deployment, the ability to create and implement governance strategies and a proven ability to build strong business relationships with stakeholders is also required.

This really is an excellent opportunity to join a leading consultancy at the top of their game. Please send your CV to JA@BSQIT.com for immediate review, or call me on 01179276592 for more information.

•Date: 7th January 2010 •Region: UK