Disaster Recovery Practitioner

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Location: Sydney (Flexible)

Type: Permanent, full-time position

At QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future.

We’re an international insurer and reinsurer with a local presence in 27 countries.

Leveraging our deep expertise and insights, QBE offers commercial, personal and specialty products and risk management solutions to help people and businesses manage risks, build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We’ve been cultivating resilience since 1886, when our founders started a marine insurance company in Townsville, Australia to give early pioneers a safeguard against uncertainty.

Today, we employ more than 11,600 people around the world, and our product portfolio includes property, motor, crop, energy, marine and aviation insurance.

The opportunity

Other responsibilities include:

- Deliver regular exercising to assess the effectiveness of processes and plans, and communicate results and improvements to stakeholders and relevant governance forums
- Manage and report IT DR tests and drive continuous improvement through Plan, Do, Check, Act
- Provide support for the major incident process, directing as required the technical response in a recovery invocation, and ensure the support staff and vendors are focused on the appropriate sequence and priority actions
- Act as the first line of support and DR authority on behalf of the region; leading the recovery plan in the event of invocation and collaborate with
- Manage relationship with BIA business contacts/leads. Educate and support contacts with all DR related matters and point of contact during testing or actual disaster scenarios
- Collaborate with BCP teams and business contacts as required. Develop and negotiate on business criticality requests versus infrastructure capability and provisions

Your story so far

You will have strong working knowledge and experience in Disaster Recovery best practices and models.

Excellent understanding of storage-based replication recovery technologies and experience in overseeing all aspects of Disaster Recovery projects. You are a self-starter, a forward thinker, able to drive multiple projects establishing collaborative working relationships across multiple stakeholders.

You will have:

- 5 years of experience as a DR Manager / ITSC Manager, and the most recent role managing DR in a regulated industry
- Good experience with VM recovery tools, backup/archiving techniques, high availability, and physical server recovery.
- Demonstrable experience in working directly with multi-vendors, offshore suppliers, business owners and IT teams and in driving these to meet stated objectives.
- Ability to communicate replication, high availability, Database, and infrastructure recovery technologies to non-technical audience with clarity and precision

We are here to support you

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

- ‘Hybrid Working’ - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Our ‘At My Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 12 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
- The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
- Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

- 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
- 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
- Gold Employer status for 2019 & 2020 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) - the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
- Ranked 6th place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2021 as voted by graduates
- Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)

Join us.

QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at


How to Apply:
Equal Employment Opportunity:
QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.