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DR Implementation

Duration: June 2024 - September 2024 • American Express: Gurgaon

Objective

Establish a disaster recovery (DR) environment for the Payment Portal application to ensure business continuity, data integrity, and minimal downtime in the event of system failures or outages.

Key responsibilities

• Identified and mitigated cross-application dependencies to prevent functionality conflicts.
• Led a sub-project to update URL structure, overcoming challenges such as link redirection, user authentication alignment, and backend integration changes.
• Conducted comprehensive user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate application stability post-URL change.
• Designed and implemented a DR environment, configuring data synchronization and recovery workflows.
• Coordinated with infrastructure, application, and QA teams to ensure smooth deployment within BCP guidelines.

Technologies

Data synchronization • Jira • Confluence • Excel Macro

Achievements

• Successfully implemented a fully functional DR instance, achieving minutes recovery time objective (RTO) and minutes recovery point objective (RPO).
• Improved application resilience and reduced potential downtime risks.
• Strengthened compliance with internal technology risk and disaster recovery policies.