Job summary
TAWANTECH in Riyadh is hiring a Disaster Recovery Expert (Supervisor/Lead) to oversee disaster recovery, IT resilience and business continuity for critical banking systems. The role includes developing recovery plans, running drills, coordinating technical teams and ensuring regulatory and operational readiness.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and maintain DR strategies, plans, procedures, and recovery runbooks
- Define and maintain RTO and RPO for critical systems
- Lead DR drills, simulations, failover/failback and recovery testing
- Coordinate with infrastructure, network, cybersecurity, application, database, cloud and business teams
- Ensure DR environments, backup, replication and HA capabilities are operational and compliant
- Conduct risk assessments, business impact analysis and root-cause investigations
- Ensure alignment with banking regulations, audit requirements and IT governance
- Manage DR vendors and report readiness and risks to management
Requirements
- 5+ years in Disaster Recovery, IT Resilience, Infrastructure or Business Continuity
- Mandatory banking or financial services experience
- Previous lead/supervisor experience preferred
- Strong knowledge of DR architecture, data centers, cloud, virtualization, backup and replication
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering or related field
Skills
Disaster RecoveryBusiness ContinuityIT ResilienceRTO/RPOBackup and ReplicationHigh AvailabilityVirtualizationCloudRisk AssessmentLeadership
Source: Workable. Last checked as open: 14 Nov 2026. You apply directly with the employer.
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