ICT disaster recovery analyst

What the work can involve

ICT disaster recovery analyst work connects continuity planning with technical recovery. Typical tasks include mapping critical systems, reviewing backup coverage, testing recovery steps and documenting what teams should do during an outage.

Skills and specializations

Useful strengths include ICT recovery techniques, backup practice, security risk identification, impact analysis, recovery-system implementation and clear reporting after tests or incidents.

Salary context

Salary context depends on the business-critical systems covered, recovery-time expectations, security responsibility, documentation ownership, test coordination and whether the role leads incident exercises.

Career paths

Paths can come from systems administration, ICT support, security operations, backup administration or business continuity work into disaster recovery planning and resilience roles.

Good to know

Check adverts for named systems, backup platforms, recovery testing frequency, incident duties, on-call expectations, policy ownership and how the role works with infrastructure, security and business teams.

Editorial note

This guide gives editorial career context for ICT disaster recovery analyst work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.

Alternative labels

Occupation group

Software and applications developers and analysts not elsewhere classified (2519)

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