Take-Two Interactive Software
Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Senior Specialist
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. is a leading developer, publisher, and marketer of interactive entertainment for consumers around the globe. The Company develops and publishes products principally through Rockstar Games, 2K, Private Division, and Zynga. Our products are currently designed for console gaming systems, PC, and Mobile, including smartphones and tablets, and are delivered through physical retail, digital download, online platforms, and cloud streaming services. The Company’s common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO.
While our offices (physical and virtual) are casual and inviting, we are deeply committed to our core tenets of creativity, innovation and efficiency, and individual and team development opportunities. Our industry and business are continually evolving and fast-paced, providing numerous opportunities to learn and hone your skills. We work hard, but we also like to have fun, and believe that we provide a great place to come to work each day to pursue your passions.
The Challenge
The Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Senior Specialist role is responsible to engage across Labels, Operations, Information Technology and Cybersecurity in developing and improving recovery, monitoring and testing capabilities. The person in the role will also help to drive efforts to improve overall business recovery efforts within our gaming products and services. The ideal candidate is a proactive strategist who can develop, implement, and test comprehensive recovery solutions while aligning closely with our broader business continuity goals. This role is an individual contributor concentrating on disaster recovery strategy.
What You’ll Take On
- Support Take-Two’s global disaster recovery, business continuity management, incident management, and crisis management programs across the company.
- Responsible for coordinating and maintaining the global disaster recovery and business continuity programs to ensure our partners, products, and technologies are prepared to respond to business disruptions.
- Experience developing, implementing, and maintaining disaster recovery and business continuity programs including risk assessments, business impact analyses, and documentation.
- Plan, conduct, and debrief regular scenario-based exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly.
- Establish and maintain disaster recovery programs, processes and practices which ensures that the program remains current and incorporates/aligns with industry standards and practices as appropriate and adequately covers regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate the development, maintenance, and implementation of disaster recovery plans for multiple labels.
- Collaborate with IT and business leaders to align DR strategies with enterprise-wide Business Continuity Planning (BCP).
- Coordinate with stakeholders and partners across multiple labels to identify interdependencies and critical recovery points.
- Perform risk assessments and business impact analyses (BIAs) to determine key areas of vulnerability.
- Design and lead complex DR testing scenarios (including cyberattack simulations, server outages, and data recovery drills).
- Evaluate and recommend DR technologies (e.g., backup solutions, cloud replication, virtualisation).
- Ensure all DR/BCP documentation remains current, auditable, and aligned with regulatory requirements.
- Maintain communication plans for critical issue resolution during emergency response.
- Train internal teams on DR/BCP procedures and ensure awareness at all levels.
- Produce reports and metrics to present to executives and audit/compliance teams.
- Works with business units to develop and ensure effective business recovery plans that allow critical business functions to be resumed within defined timetables and acceptable risk factors.
- Work with technologists to ensure that all critical business functions can be resumed within defined timetables and acceptable risk factors. Monitors and reports on all planning activity and statistical results to senior management and financial regulatory agencies to ensure corporate regulatory and audit compliance
- Produce ad hoc data and reports in support of business incident management and impact analysis.
- Educates users on the corporation’s business recovery planning software and recovery methodology.
- Stays on top of industry-related disaster recovery processes and evaluating the efficiency of implementing changes to existing practices.
- 5+ years experience in disaster recovery and/or business continuity roles.
- Demonstrable experience managing DR/BCP in a multi-entity or enterprise organization.
- Solid understanding of IT infrastructure, cloud services, networking, and security.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional recovery teams across diverse lines of business.
- Familiarity with industry frameworks such as ISO, NIST, or COBIT.
- Excellent communication, planning, and documentation skills.
- Administration experience with tools such as Fusion Framework, AlertMedia, ServiceNow or similar platforms is a plus.
- Relevant certifications a plus (e.g., CBCP, CBCI, etc.).
Great to Have
- Background in gaming, entertainment, or high-availability digital services.
- Knowledge of legal and regulatory compliance in disaster recovery (e.g., GDPR, SOX, etc.).
- Experience in remote work/distributed teams' continuity planning.
What We Offer You
- Great Company Culture. We pride ourselves as being one of the most creative and innovative places to work, creativity, innovation, efficiency, diversity and philanthropy are among the core tenets of our organization and are integral drivers of our continued success.
- Growth: As a global entertainment company, we pride ourselves on creating environments where employees are encouraged to be themselves, inquisitive, collaborative and to grow within and around the company.
- Work Hard, Play Hard. Our employees’ bond, blow-off steam, and flex some creative muscles – through corporate boot camp classes, our onsite Gym, company parties, our Office bar, game release events, monthly socials, and team challenges.
- Benefits. Benefits include, but are not limited to Private healthcare, Private dental, A double matching pension policy where the employer will double match up to a 4% contribution from the employee, Employee stock purchase scheme with a 15% discount, Eye tests and vouchers towards glasses, Cycle to work scheme, Flu vouchers, Annual health, 4X death in service insurance, Income protection (66% salary), Workplace Savings, 26 days holiday, Enhanced Family friendly policies + other great perks and great office facilities!
- Perks. Fitness reimbursement up to £50 per month, an onsite Gym, an Office bar, employee discount programs, free games & events, stocked pantries and a dog friendly workplace.
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. and its affiliates and group companies (“T2”) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, which means we are committed to creating and celebrating diverse thoughts, cultures, and backgrounds throughout our organization. Employment at T2 is based on substantive ability, objective qualifications, and work ethic – not an individual’s race, colour, religion, sex or gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, age, marital status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law.
Please be aware that Take-Two does not conduct job interviews or make job offers over third-party messaging apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, or others. Take-Two also does not engage in any financial exchanges during the recruitment or onboarding process, and the Company will never ask a candidate for their personal or financial information over an app or other unofficial chat channel. Any attempt to do so may be the result of a scam or phishing exercise. Take-Two’s in-house recruitment team will only contact individuals through their official Company email addresses (i.e., via a take2games.com email domain). If you need to report an issue or otherwise have questions, please contact [email protected].
This role requires you to come in to our London office four days a week, Monday to Thursday.
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