Job Description

Job Information


Job Opening ID


ZR_1878_JOB
Industry


Cyber Security & IT
City


Dubai
Country


United Arab Emirates




As the Head of the Disaster Recovery at Deriv, you will lead your team in developing and implementing disaster recovery, business continuity, and risk management strategies across our global offices. Our IT infrastructure includes around 150 servers and tens of terabyte-sized databases hosted in multiple cloud environments. On top of that, we use approximately 200 internal and external SaaS systems. We aim for 99.99% uptime, 24/7 availability with higher security, and lower latency from any country. Your job is to use your in-depth understanding of IT resilience to determine the critical processes required for the successful resumption of business operations in case of a disaster.



What will you be doing?

• Establish, mentor, and lead a top-performing disaster recovery team across multiple disciplines.
• Hire technical members to develop and implement comprehensive disaster recovery plans, procedures, and processes.
• Establish and guide a technical team capable of conducting regular risk assessments, scenario planning, and proactive risk management activities.
• Establish and guide a technical enough team that can Continuously test, validate, and improve disaster recovery strategies to ensure peak readiness for any potential business disruptions.
• Liaise with all business branches to guarantee seamless collaboration in times of crisis.
• Stay up-to-date with industry best practices, trends, and regulatory requirements in disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Provide critical leadership and direction during crisis response activities.



Requirements

• 15+ years of experience, including 5+ years of management experience in a mid-to-large-sized company in DR role.
• Thorough knowledge of industry-standard information security and DR best practices
• Solid knowledge of chaos engineering to build systems that can withstand turbulent conditions
• Familiarity with legacy and modern application architectures and related technologies (web applications, service-oriented architecture, microservices), network protocols, and storage and backup services
• Hands-on experience in Linux and cloud computing (AWS, GCP, and other IAAS)
• Experience with audits
• Highly adaptable to new and different technologies in a fast-changing business environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent spoken and written English communication skills
• University degree in computer science or a related field



Benefits

• You have the ability to build and guide your teams from the ground up.
• Enjoying the challenges of a fast-moving FinTech. We are introducing new technologies changing our architecture rapidly, and expanding our successful business in more territories and regulations. There are challenges on both the business and technology sides.
• Cooperative work environment
• Inspiring work environment and creative freedom