Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Specialist
Core
Develops and maintains IT resiliency strategy, backup standards, and recovery testing programs to ensure critical systems can recover from cyberattacks, outages, and vendor failures.
Role type
Senior IC disaster recovery and resiliency specialist
Builds
IT backup and recovery standards, recovery testing programs, and resiliency roadmaps
Domain
Higher education IT security and business continuity
Required skills
disaster recovery planning, business continuity coordination, backup technology management, recovery testing facilitation, risk assessment, compliance mapping, stakeholder coordination, policy development, incident response integration, cloud recovery services
Preferred skills
enterprise backup platforms (Commvault, NetBackup, Rubrik), replication orchestration tools, cloud recovery services (AWS, Azure), identity system recovery (Active Directory, Entra ID), higher education IT background, complex stakeholder navigation
Technologies
Commvault, NetBackup, Rubrik, Cohesity, VMware Site Recovery Manager, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, AWS Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain IT resiliency strategy and multi-year roadmap; coordinate recovery testing and tabletop exercises; assess architecture against RTO/RPO requirements; map program to NIST and HIPAA frameworks; report resiliency metrics to leadership; coordinate recovery activities during major incidents; review exceptions to recovery standards; maintain offline recovery documentation.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic planning responsibilities
