DR Coordinator

Disaster Recovery Planning & Governance Engineer Strong experience in enterprise Disaster Recovery planning, governance, and program coordination. Good understanding of Business Continuity Management, BCP/DR lifecycle, IT service continuity, and resilience frameworks. Ability to define, track, and report DR KPIs such as RTO, RPO, test effectiveness, readiness score, audit gaps, and remediation status. Experience preparing DR dashboards, governance reports, executive summaries, and readiness/compliance packs. Ability to develop and maintain enterprise DR frameworks, standards, operating models, and recovery methodologies. Experience conducting application, infrastructure, data flow, and dependency assessments across business-critical services. Good knowledge of DR solutions across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Ability to recommend resilience improvements for critical business services and support multi-year DR roadmap initiatives. Hands-on experience creating and maintaining DR plans, runbooks, SOPs, recovery procedures, escalation matrices, and communication templates. Ability to maintain application-to-infrastructure dependency mapping, DR asset inventory, and recovery ownership matrix. Experience coordinating periodic reviews and updates of DR documentation with application, infrastructure, security, and business teams. Experience planning and coordinating tabletop exercises, simulation drills, partial failover testing, and full-scale recovery testing. Ability to validate RTO and RPO compliance during exercises and document test outcomes, risks, gaps, and remediation actions. Experience coordinating failover and failback activities with infrastructure, application, cloud, backup, network, and security teams. Support DR activation during major incidents, disasters, cyber events, ransomware scenarios, regional disruptions, and infrastructure failures. Ability to coordinate command center activities, recovery milestones, stakeholder updates, and executive/customer communication during recovery events. Good understanding of IT risk assessments, audit evidence preparation, compliance reporting, and readiness assessment support. Familiarity with ISO 22301, SOC, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ITIL practices, change management, incident management, and major incident recovery. Required Technical Skills Disaster Recovery Planning & Governance; Business Continuity Management (BCP/DR); Enterprise Infrastructure Recovery. Cloud DR across AWS, Azure, and GCP; backup and recovery technologies; replication technologies; DR testing and validation. ITIL Service Continuity Management; risk assessment and compliance; recovery runbook development; infrastructure and application dependency mapping. Change management; executive reporting and governance; incident management and major incident recovery; regulatory compliance exposure.