Resiliency Consultant – Disaster Recovery

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

The Disaster Recovery SR Resiliency Analyst will be responsible for Disaster Recovery plan management and documentation for business critical and infrastructure applications. Concentrated functional areas of job performance include:

• Managing the creation and ongoing maintenance of Disaster Recovery plans and supporting documentation for critical applications and core infrastructure
• Participating in activities to improve and support DR program operations
• Assisting with the management of an actual disaster event which impacts organizational assets.
• Develop DR materials by working with and educating application teams, infrastructure teams, management, and businesses in the documentation of DR Plans
• Provide insight in the design, development, implementation, and testing of disaster recovery technology including public cloud-based applications
• Facilitate discussions on platform dependencies and application interdependencies
• Understand the complexities of methodologies for recovering services at an alternative location including public cloud service providers
• Analyze applications and interdependencies to understand the landscape of applications for which plans need to be written
• Develop/document/improve process and guidelines which support the Disaster Recovery program
• Ideal candidate should possess the following: analytical/problem-solving skills, negotiation skills; verbal, written and visual presentation skills; consensus building ability; ability to collaborate and perform well within a complex, matrixed organization
• Able to interact with technical, non-technical and management staff
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent technical certification and training
• 8+ years of hands-on IT experience
• 5+ years of experience with Disaster Recovery methodology & technology
• 5+ years of experience writing technical or procedural documents
• 5+ years of computing knowledge (UNIX, Windows, App, Web, Database, Storage, Cloud)

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes – an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

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