Location: ALPHARETTA, GA
Email/Website: http://www.equifax.com/careers/opportunities/en_us
Subject Area: Disaster Recovery
Description: TITLE: Disaster Recovery Coordinator
COMPANY: Equifax
LOCATION: Alpharetta, GA
CONTACT: scott.bracewell@equifax.com
The Disaster Recovery Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating and maintaining mainframe and midrange recovery processes and procedures between the disaster recovery services provider and Equifax. This will include the coordination of the development, maintenance, and testing of recovery processes for the mainframe and midrange infrastructure. In addition, the Disaster Recovery Coordinator will manage the Change Control process as it relates to DR infrastructure, and serve as the liaison between Equifax and the disaster recovery services provider.
Responsibilities:
• Assist with the planning, coordinating, and execution of DR tests and/or actual events.
• Assist in the development of exercise objectives between recovery vendor and Equifax.
• Assist in implementing a problem tracking process for DR testing and coordinate post-test issues resolution meetings.
• Prepare and deliver a post-test report detailing all successes and issues encountered.
• Implement updates to the Disaster Recovery Plan following a recovery exercise.
• Review changes in corporate resources with the management of those areas to assure the effectiveness of the recovery procedures.
• Responsible for providing manuals, configuration specifications, software specifications, written procedures or other information required for the execution of recovery processes.
• Work with vendors of disaster recovery services and facilities to ensure best practices are followed.
• Develop and implement if necessary, a planned move to a Cold Site facility from Equifax’s recovery location.
• Work with DR hardware provider to ensure testing, contract changes, and testing documentation meet Equifax policies, standards and procedures.
Skills and Experience Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Management Information Systems, or related field: or the equivalent in education and work experience.
• 5-7 +years of Disaster Recovery experience, with an emphasis on mainframe/midrange recovery.
• Significant knowledge of current disaster recovery planning methodologies and technologies.
• Knowledge of Business Continuity best practices and Business Impact Analysis (BIA) methodologies.
• Significant understanding of Change Management process - Required
• Project Management experience.
• Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), or willingness to obtain certification - Preferred
• Familiarity with the Archer application – Preferred
Company Overview
Equifax empowers businesses and consumers with information they can trust. A global leader in information solutions, we leverage one of the largest sources of consumer and commercial data, along with advanced analytics and proprietary technology, to create customized insights that enrich both the performance of businesses and the lives of consumers.
With a strong heritage of innovation and leadership, Equifax continuously delivers new innovative solutions with the highest integrity and reliability. Businesses - large and small - rely on us for consumer and business credit intelligence, portfolio management, fraud detection, decisioning technology, marketing tools, and much more. We empower individual consumers to understand their personal credit information, protect their identity, and maximize their financial well-being.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Equifax Inc. operates in the U.S. and 16 other countries throughout North America, Latin America and Europe.. Equifax is a member of Standard & Poor´s (S&P) 500® Index. Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EFX.
The foundation of Equifax is our talented, dedicated employees. Our mission is to deliver world- class information solutions to businesses and consumers. We accomplish our goals by drawing upon the experience, energy and teamwork of our employees in a growing, dynamic, and fun place to work.
As a global company Equifax offers a competitive benefits package specific to each geographic location. We provide our employees and their families with programs that will enhance their well-being and security.
Equifax is an equal opportunity employer and we positively value diversity within our organization.
Equifax is an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free work place.
For more information about our company, please visit: www.equifax.com
