Job Description

About AbbVie
AbbVies mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on peoples lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, womens health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.



The Disaster Recovery Systems Engineer is responsible for supporting AbbVie's information technology disaster recovery readiness efforts. This includes working with system owners, our vendors, and our infrastructure teams to ensure critical systems have solutions in place. The Disaster Recovery Systems Engineer will be responsible for Fusion Framework system administration and configuration activities. The ideal Disaster Recovery Systems Engineer is a technical SME who is adept at communications and planning.

In this role, the employee provides advice, assistance and leadership in any area associated with the planning, procurement, provision, delivery, management, maintenance for disaster recovery of information systems for a business area.

Specific responsibilities include:

* Focal point for system administration and configuration work within Fusion Framework software (tool used by AbbVie to manage disaster recovery services for business-critical applications)
* Develops business relationships and integrates activities with other Business Technology Organizations (BTOs) to ensure successful implementation and support of disaster recovery project efforts
* Educates system owners regarding disaster recovery planning, options and their roles/responsibilities as it relates to application criticality and disaster recovery
* Creation of project plans, documents, and presentations regarding resiliency planning and disaster recovery
* Designs process, procedure, documentation, and continuous methods for improvement
* Support all aspects of disaster recovery readiness for business-critical applications including:
* Proof of concept testing for new provisioning or following fixes to system strategies
* Support and assist in enterprise disaster recovery exercises
* Consulted on issue management and resolution activities
* Support and/or managing Information technology disaster recovery efforts in the event of a site outage
* Creates concise, accurate, and timely reports, identifying gaps/concerns to manage process improvements
* Provides off-hours support as required for recovery exercises and invocation, if needed

Qualifications
Required Skills

* Bachelor's degree and 6 years of experience
* In-depth experience with system administration or configuration management using Fusion Framework (SaaS solution)
* At least 5 years of information technology experience working within an enterprise
* Highly effective at verbal and non-verbal communication
* Adept at project organization and management
* Familiarity with networks and enterprise technologies; including servers, backups, virtualization, SAN, firewalls, VPN, and load balancers
* Effective at managing multiple projects, efforts, and priorities concurrently

Education and Experience

* Minimum 8 years of experience in disaster recovery or information technology
* Bachelors degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
* Exercises latitude in the approach to problem solving
* Determines and develops approach and solutions to problem

Significant Work Activities
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Travel
No
Job Type
Experienced
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level Code
IC
Equal Employment Opportunity
At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.