• The role would be responsible for the planning and design of the Disaster Recovery solution and Testing Environments within DII (F).
• Planning and design of the DR solution across multiple platforms, primarily Windows Server 2003 but also AIX and Solaris. This would involve the design and creation of a test environment for the use of the Projects to test DR failover for individual services, working with the teams and SM to prove this. It would also involve the design and creation, and subsequent management of a Datacentre DR environment, where full datacentre failover can be tested for each Atlas Release/Project.
• Understanding the security and functional requirements for the platform, communication and documentation of the platform to the MoD, technical colleagues, and to the Atlas engineering projects, Service Management and the Business Continuity Consultants.
• The applicant should have broad experience of server and application availability using clustering technologies. A broad understanding and experience of many of the products used in DII(F), especially in the infrastructure, will also be required.
• Familiarity with, or ability to extend knowledge, to cover DR technologies which are intended to be introduced in Release 2B - including Global Clustering and Cisco GSS.
• Technical leadership, project initiation, design specifications, change controls, testing, implementation, technical documentation for handover to implementation and support are also required.

• DR Testbed environment for service DR testing
• DR environment for the testing of full datacentre failover and failback
• Assistance to Projects in their detailed DR design, co-operation with Service Management to document datacentre failover/failback
• Planning and management of the DR environments to maximize their efficient usage by the A&E Projects

• Extensive Infrastructure Design experience
• Design experience with Windows Server 2003
• Good knowledge of SAN interfaces
• Good knowledge of DNS and IP services
• Technical Communication
• Technical design leadership
• Technical documentation
• Good interpersonal and organizational/planning skills
• Proven self starter

Desirable:

• Previous Disaster Recovery design/implementation experience
• Broad understanding of infrastructure technologies used in the DII solution
• Government work
• SC qualification