Manager, IT

Bausch Health is a global company that develops, manufactures and markets a differentiated product portfolio across multiple high-growth therapeutic areas including Gastroenterology, Generics, Neurology, Ortho Dermatologics and Dentistry. We are delivering on our commitments as we build an innovative company dedicated to advancing global health. Each day, Bausch Health products are used by over 150 million people around the world.

Our approximately 7,000 employees are united around our mission of improving people’s lives with our health care products.

The Disaster Recovery (DR) IT Manager is responsible for managing the development and coordination of disaster recovery planning and will drive the testing program and advancing DR solutions. You will manage the collaboration with IT teams and business Application teams to gather application and system requirements, develop DR plans, DR test plans, and execute failover/recovery exercises in preparation of a major event. MUST HAVE 5 years’ experience managing disaster recovery.

Role location open to Bridgewater, NJ, Mexico, or Poland.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery principles, strategies, and best practices
• Writing detailed technical DR test plans and scheduling and leading technical interviews with various IT groups and subject matter experts
• Documentation of all elements of technical disaster recovery plans
• Coordinating and facilitating technical DR plan walk-throughs, tests/exercises meeting scope, objectives, business requirements including Recovery Time Objectives RTO’s and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO’s)
• Performing technical analysis of all infrastructure stacks (applications, networks, servers, storage) for production and DR data centers (or cloud environments)
• Coordinate after action report and resolution of issues surfaced during Disaster Recovery exercises
• Capture and report risks and single points of failover determined through testing and analysis, and recommend corrective actions
• Manage the development of post exercise executive summary report
• Lead the management and maintenance of Disaster Recovery Plans and recovery systems that support critical applications.
• Manage and maintain Disaster Recovery exercise schedule
• Experience identifying, collecting, organizing, analyzing, and reviewing technical information
• Ability to report disaster recovery project status to stakeholders
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to develop professional reports and metrics
• Ability to drive and lead DR activities

BACKGROUND:

• 5 years’ experience managing Disaster Recovery activities MANDATORY
• CBCP (Certified Business Continuity Professional) certification
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline
• Microsoft Azure Cloud, Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (ASR), Zerto, Data Guard ( or other data replication software )
• Backup/Recovery including, Cohesity, Networker, Tivoli TSM, ( or other backup software )
• Linux, Oracle, SQL (LAN cluster design)
• Knowledge of IT infrastructure components such as: server, load balancer, firewall, DNS, Active Directory, SMTP, Citrix / WVD access, backup, and server monitoring
• Knowledge of ServiceNow, CMDB management, Change Management process as it relates to Disaster Recovery IT planning, and ability to follow documented processes
• Experience with online Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery planning tools – ServiceNow BCM a plus
• Experience working with data center operations: cloud and on premises environments
• DR architecture design for application, network, server, database, IT Security, and storage elements
• Knowledge of systems administration (platform-agnostic), application administration concepts, cloud hosting and recovery functions, and network administration functions
• Working knowledge of High Availability (HA)
• Knowledge of vendor hosting technologies (i.e., SaaS, DRaaS, Managed Networks, Cloud Hosting)
• Familiarity with application interdependency concepts

This position may be available in the following location(s): [[location_obj]]

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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