Job Description

DC-DR Drill Activity Specialist



This role has been designed as ''Onsite' with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE partner/customer office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

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HPE Operations

is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers' outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today's fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities. Join us and redefine what's next for you.

What you'll do:

Role Overview

The DC-DR (Data Center - Disaster Recovery) Drill Specialist is responsible for planning, coordinating, executing, and validating Disaster Recovery readiness across critical infrastructure, applications, and cybersecurity layers. The role ensures that business-critical systems can be restored within defined RTO/RPO and that DR processes remain compliant, documented, and continuously improved.

Key Responsibilities

1. DC-DR Planning & Coordination

Develop the DR drill schedule and coordinate with application owners, infra teams, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders. Review DR runbooks, recovery procedures, and architecture prior to execution. Validate dependencies, network paths, storage mappings, backup availability, and replication status.

2. Execution of DR Drills

Perform end-to-end DR failover and fallback activities (planned/unplanned drills). Execute recovery steps for servers, databases, applications, network, and storage components. Validate replication health (e.g., SRDF, SnapMirror, Zerto, Veeam, HPE RMC / HPE Storage Replication). Troubleshoot DR-related failures during the drill.

3. Monitoring & Validation

Check application functionality post-recovery in DR site. Validate RTO/RPO compliance and capture deviations. Ensure logs, dashboards, and DR evidence are captured as per audit/compliance needs.

4. Documentation & Reporting

Update DR runbooks, SOPs, test scripts, and evidence documents. Prepare DR drill reports -- Summary, Gaps, Recommendations, Lessons Learned. Maintain DR readiness metrics and improvement trackers.

5. Continuous Improvement

Identify DR gaps, risks, configuration issues, and propose corrective actions. Work with Infra/Network/Security teams to fix issues before the next drill. Enhance automation and repeatability for DR testing.

What you need to bring:

Technical Skills

Strong understanding of DC & DR concepts: RTO, RPO, failover, fallback, replication, backup strategy. Hands-on experience with

at least one

of the following: + Storage replications: HPE 3PAR/Primera/Nimble, NetApp, Dell EMC
+ Virtualization & Compute: VMware, Hyper-V, KVM
+ Backup tools: Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup, Data Protector
+ Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL (basic recovery steps)
+ Networking basics: DNS, Load Balancer, VLANs, routing failover
Basic understanding of Cybersecurity controls during DR (IAM, access, vaulting, secure restore).

Soft Skills

Strong coordination and stakeholder management. Ability to create clear documentation and reports. Troubleshooting mindset and ability to handle high-pressure scenarios. Flexible to work during planned drills (weekend/night).

Qualification

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering. 2-5 years of relevant experience in DC-DR, IT Infrastructure, Storage, Backup, or Systems Operations.

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Business Growth, Client Expectations Management, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Centric Solutions, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity, Process Improvements, Product Services, Relationship Building {+ 5 more}

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have -- whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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