Disaster Recovery Program Manager

Role Summary

The Disaster Recovery Program Manager will lead and govern the enterprise IT disaster recovery program, ensuring technology recovery strategies align with business continuity, regulatory, and risk requirements. This role oversees recovery standards, testing, remediation initiatives, and incident recovery while partnering across technology, cybersecurity, and business continuity teams.

Responsibilities

• Govern the enterprise IT disaster recovery framework in alignment with business continuity and applicable regulatory and risk standards.
• Establish and maintain recovery standards, tiers, Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
• Lead technical failover testing, tabletop exercises, and recovery simulations.
• Document test results, track remediation plans, and drive identified actions through completion.
• Partner with infrastructure, application, cybersecurity, and business continuity teams on recovery assessments and risk evaluations.
• Identify and prioritize disaster recovery improvements across infrastructure and application environments.
• Provide executive-level reporting on recovery readiness, testing results, risks, and outstanding issues.
• Coordinate technology recovery activities during incidents, including recovery execution, escalation, and leadership communication.
• Maintain disaster recovery plans, runbooks, contact information, and escalation procedures.
• Serve as a disaster recovery subject matter expert for audits, examinations, and business continuity governance activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in IT disaster recovery, business continuity, infrastructure operations, or enterprise technology risk management.
• Strong knowledge of on-premises and cloud infrastructure, backup and replication technologies, and cybersecurity principles.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and driving remediation efforts in complex technology environments.
• Experience supporting audits and regulatory requirements related to disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Experience establishing RTO and RPO requirements, recovery standards, testing programs, and governance processes.
• Strong communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate technical risks and recovery gaps into business impact.
• Experience preparing executive-level reporting and communicating with leadership, auditors, and other stakeholders.

Publishing Pay Range: $62.00 - $76.00 hourly

This position offers a hybrid schedule, with time split between the office and remote work.