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(IT Resilience Analyst, Business Continuity Analyst, Disaster Recovery Officer, ICT Business Continuity Strategist)
IT & Data
Salary
€42,000 - €90,000/yr
Level
Professional
Outlook
Growing
Sector
IT & Data
As an IT Disaster Recovery Analyst you develop, test, and maintain plans that allow an organisation's IT systems to recover quickly after a failure, cyberattack, or natural disaster. You assess the risks to critical systems, design backup strategies, write detailed recovery procedures, and coordinate regular tests to make sure those plans actually work under pressure. You work closely with IT infrastructure teams, security specialists, business continuity managers, and senior leadership to ensure that vital data and services can be restored with minimal disruption. In Ireland, you are increasingly important across regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare, and critical national infrastructure, where compliance with EU frameworks like DORA and NIS2 makes robust disaster recovery planning a legal as well as operational priority.
Listen: a day as an IT Disaster Recovery Analyst
You arrive at the office in Dublin's docklands at half eight, badge in, and open your laptop. Before the kettle has even boiled you are checking overnight monitoring dashboards in your organisation's IT service management platform. You scan for any alerts that fired during the night — storage thresholds, backup job failures, replication lag on the secondary data centre — and log two minor incidents that the on-call team resolved but that still need a formal review entry. By nine o'clock you are in a stand-up with the infrastructure and security teams. Today's main agenda is the run-up to next week's planned failover test for the core banking application. You confirm that the test environment in the secondary data centre in Kilkenny has been pre-staged and that change approval from the change advisory board came through late yesterday.
Most employers require a Level 8 Honours Bachelor degree in a computing-related discipline such as Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or Network Engineering, available at universities including UCD, DCU, TU Dublin, and ATU, among others. Leaving Certificate subjects that strengthen your application include Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, and Applied Mathematics, though a strong performance across the sciences and business subjects is also valued. Some practitioners enter via a Level 7 Ordinary Bachelor in Computing or a QQI Level 6 higher certificate in IT and then progress through postgraduate study or workplace experience. A Level 9 postgraduate qualification in Cybersecurity, Information Security Management, or Business Continuity is increasingly common for those seeking senior roles, and programmes are offered by UCD, UL, DCU, and several technological universities. Industry certifications such as DRII CBCP, BCI CBCI, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), or ISACA CISM are highly regarded by Irish employers and often pursued alongside or after formal education. No statutory registration body currently governs this occupation, but professional membership of organisations such as the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) adds credibility.
Many IT Disaster Recovery Analysts begin their careers in general IT support, systems administration, or a cybersecurity helpdesk role before specialising in continuity and recovery. With a few years of experience, you can move into a dedicated disaster recovery or business continuity analyst position, taking ownership of recovery plans and leading test exercises. From there, senior roles such as Business Continuity Manager, IT Resilience Lead, or Head of Disaster Recovery are achievable, particularly in large financial institutions, multinationals, or public sector bodies. At the most senior levels, experienced professionals may progress into Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) positions or move into specialist consultancy, advising multiple organisations on resilience strategy.
AI is changing IT disaster recovery by enabling more sophisticated, real-time monitoring of systems that can detect anomalies and potential failures before they escalate, reducing recovery times and data loss. Automated recovery orchestration tools, increasingly powered by machine learning, can execute predefined recovery steps faster and more accurately than manual processes, shifting the analyst's focus towards strategy, testing design, and regulatory governance. AI-assisted risk modelling also allows analysts to simulate a broader range of failure scenarios and stress-test recovery plans more thoroughly than was previously practical. However, human judgement remains essential for interpreting complex incident contexts, making decisions under pressure, communicating with leadership, and ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations that require documented human accountability.
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Organisations in Ireland that employ people in this occupation.
Molesworth Street, Dublin 2
Maintains DR plans protecting core banking and payment systems
Baggot Street, Dublin 4
Tests and maintains IT recovery strategies for critical financial systems
Mulhuddart, Dublin 15
Delivers DR consulting and managed recovery services to enterprise clients
Nationwide
Develops IT recovery plans for national health and patient-care systems
Grand Canal Dock, Dublin 2
Designs and tests disaster recovery solutions across major client environments
Fitzwilliam Street Lower, Dublin 2
Protects critical energy infrastructure IT systems through robust DR planning
East Point Business Park, Dublin 3
Provides managed DR and business continuity services to Irish enterprises
North Wall Quay, Dublin 1
Maintains and tests IT recovery plans for European financial operations hub
Citywest, Dublin 24
Implements DR strategies and cloud-based recovery for public and private clients
Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1
Maintains DR procedures safeguarding insurance and pension IT platforms
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