Consultant, IT Disaster Recovery
KPMG
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India2–5 yrs15h agovia LinkedIn
This job at a glance
- Who can apply
- 2–5 years of experience · Bachelor's degree
- Must know
- Stakeholder managementVulnerability managementAgileAuditingAzureNetworking
- Work
- On-site in Bengaluru
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer.
- Skill demand
- Stakeholder management39%Agile13%Auditing12%Vulnerability management6%of 100 similar fresher jobs posted in India this week
- Listed
- 5 Nov 2026 · still open
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About the Role
KPMG is seeking a Senior Associate, IT Disaster Recovery to join our Digital Nexus organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist and/or Lead IT Disaster Recovery exercises.
- Participate in DR Exercise execution and post-test activities.
- Collaborate with key business stakeholders to develop DR Exercise reports and identify gaps remediation.
- Be available (On-Call and/or stand by) during shift and after hours to coordinate recovery activities during a major outage or actual IT disaster.
- Work a non-standard shift to support IT-DR Tests: Friday through Monday, 4 x 10 shift.
- Track & Document Issues & Vulnerabilities experienced during IT-DR Tests.
- Develop business cases for the use of automation to improve DRP/BCP efficiency, reduce risk, increase resiliency, and reduce costs.
- Monitor and report on Business Technology Resilience Team’s service Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and Service Level Objectives (SLO).
- Perform post Lessons Learned for DRP/BCP improvements.
- Manage the Business Technology Resilience Team’s data, metadata, and documentation.
- Lead /collaborate IT Disaster recovery initiatives to enhance internal services consumed by stakeholders.
- Participate in internal forums for the adoption of new technologies, best practices, and methodologies for improving the services offered by the IT Disaster Recovery team.
- Active participation in Scrum ceremonies and stories definition and development.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Minimum 2-5 years of recent experience and supporting highly available resilient / active-active failover ready applications in an IT-DR environment.
- Experience Leading or Supporting IT-DR Test, Scoring and Auditing of IT-DR Tests.
- Experience with Azure Cloud; familiarity with SaaS.
- Competent in site recovery engineering concepts pertaining to networking, storage, compute, database, middleware, cloud, and resilient application (local and geographic redundancy).
- Experience with Scrum /Kanban Agile methodologies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university; or equivalent work experience.
- Strong verbal/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and authority.
- Ability to prioritize, delegate, and foster the development of high-performance teams.
- Ability to prioritize and to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Adaptable and open to change based on business needs.
- Ability to understand business needs and translate them into initiatives for service improvements.
- Ability with problem-solving and finding solutions.
- Experience with Service Now’s BCM module is a plus.