Gallagher Looking for Disaster Recovery Coordinator at Rolling Meadows, IL Full Time

Gallagher is a global leader in insurance, risk management and consulting services. We help businesses grow, communities thrive and people prosper. We live a culture defined by The Gallagher Way, our set of shared values and guiding tenets. A culture driven by our people, over 30,000 strong, serving our clients with customized solutions that will protect them and fuel their futures.

AJG Corporate Systems (CS) provides global financial applications development and support for AJG’s Finance and Accounting departments, including compliance for legal and audit. AJG CS also includes an enterprise level Business Intelligence (BI) Competency Center (BICC) to provide expertise for management analysis, reporting and planning technologies and solutions. AJG CS core solutions are comprised of Oracle/JD Edwards ERP/Finance, Cognos and Sharepoint applications in addition to number of integrated third party and internal package solutions.

DR Testing COORDINATOR SUMMARY OF FUNCTIONS

The IT Disaster Recovery Coordinator directs IT disaster response/crisis management activities in compliance with the IT emergency plan and helps provide and coordinate disaster preparedness training with respect to the organization’s information technologies, helping ensure business continuity.

IT DISASTER RECOVERY COORDINATOR ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with Business Continuity management to ensure that the disaster recovery (crisis management) and business continuity plans drive disaster recovery (DR) strategy and procedures.
• Establish and maintain the overall plans for executing all DR procedures and understand their interdependencies.
• Establish and maintain detailed DR communications and command and control plans through a change management process.
• Work with the IT technical staff to ensure that disaster recovery solutions are adequate, in place, maintained, and tested as part of the regular operational life cycle.
• Develop and understand all testing necessary for a successful DR execution.
• Schedule and lead all DR exercises.
• Provide ongoing feedback for risk management, mitigation, and prevention.
• Represent disaster recovery cost requirements in the annual budgeting process.
• Regularly report Disaster Recovery activities to upper management.
• Act as liaison for auditing and examination of disaster recovery processes.
• Help ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations, and ordinances.
• In addition position will assist compliance team with acquiring evidence for auditors from IT Operations.
• Coordinate with auditors on to understand requirements and discuss policy.

IT DISASTER RECOVERY Testing COORDINATOR QUALIFICATIONS

A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, information protection (information security), or a related IT field is or equivalent Experience is required. Certification in ABCP or CBCP is preferred.

Require 5+ years of experience in IT operations implementing and supporting IT Systems or middleware solutions in a data center environment. Must have 2+ years of experience dedicated to disaster recovery operations and management. Need experience managing projects, using PMI standard methods and tools.

Understanding of current recovery solutions, high availability architectures and mainframe architectures is needed, as is knowledge of crisis communication solutions. Must know elementary IT network principles. Require excellent oral and written communication skills to convey plans, exercises, and activities. Must be able to interact with technical, non-technical, and management staff.

Familiarity with business continuity program life cycle plans and source deliverables (e.g., risk assessments, bias, continuity planning) is essential.

U.S. Eligibility Requirements:

• Interested candidates must submit an application and resume/CV online to be considered
• Are you 18 years of age or older or can you demonstrate legal capacity to enter a contract?
• Must be willing to submit to a background investigation; any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States. For U.S. employment opportunities, Gallagher hires U.S. citizens, permanent residents, asylees, refugees, and temporary residents. Temporary residence does not include those with non-immigrant work authorization (F, J, H or L visas), such as students in practical training status. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill. Gallagher will require proof of work authorization
• Must be willing to execute Gallagher’s Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement, which require, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality and non-disclosure

Gallagher offers competitive salaries and benefits, including: medical/dental/vision plans, life and accident insurance, 401(K), employee stock purchase plan, educational expense reimbursement, employee assistance program, flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function) training programs, matching gift program, and more.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate against nor favor any applicant because of race, sex, color, disability, national origin, religion, creed, age, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, gender, gender identity / expression, actual or perceived sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

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