Full Time Minnesota IT Job
South Suburbs - Richfield
Since 2004 Best Buy has operated its information technology functions in a largely outsourced structure and has historically maintained a small internal team focused on aligning business strategies and the work of our outsourcing partners. Our Information Technology organization is transforming by materially expanding the internal teams and capabilities necessary to drive the IT strategy, architecture and technology solutions that support Best Buy's growth. We envision becoming the top IT organization in retail and seek talented, motivated employees to join us in our mission as we build our internal programs, processes, teams and capabilities.
The Senior Analyst, Disaster Recovery (DR) program will be responsible for assisting in the review of IT systems, infrastructure architecture, DR failover capabilities, and DR plans. This position will be responsible for reviewing Disaster Recovery Plans and Disaster Recovery Test Plans. As a part of the disaster recovery program, the Sr. Analyst may also gather requirements, assist in developing potential solutions. These functions work to provide assurance that critical systems and business functions can recover within the defined recovery period.
Key position responsibilities:
Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V)
- - Review Disaster Recovery Plans and Test Plans to ensure that documentation conforms to agreed upon requirements and standards
- - Audit DR Plans to determine if application infrastructures conform to established reference architecture standards
- - Manage DR documentation and update as needed.
Disaster Recovery Assurance
- - Help ensure that Disaster Recovery requirements are being appropriately implemented within projects
- - Collaborate with the Disaster Recovery Management team to ensure that DR requirements are being followed and implemented appropriately
- Information Gathering about IT Systems
- - Report findings in enterprise risk governance tools (i.e.: Archer) to help track progress across key DR goals
- - Help improve risk governance tools and processes
Stakeholder Communication
- - Regularly report progress, and significant risks to the Sr. Specialist and director of Disaster Recovery
- - Work with the DR Program Owner to develop and maintain program goals.
- - Gather and report on IV&V (Impendent Verification and Validation) status for regular updates submitted to DR leadership
Basic Qualifications:
- 3 or more years broad IT experiences involving working with business clients to develop and gather IT system requirements
- 3 or more years’ experience participating in disaster recovery Plan maintenance and Test Plans and participating in disaster recovery exercises
- Excellent communication skills
Preferred Requirements:
- Experience in conducting or participating in a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Process
- Experience working with automated BC/DR tools (e.g.: Archer)
- Bachelor’s Degree in one of the following:
- ○ Computer Engineering
- ○ Computer Science
- ○ Management Information Systems
- ○ Business
For more information, please contact:
Robert Hoefer
[email protected]
612-291-4533
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