Cybersecurity Analyst, Resilience and Disaster Recovery

Position: Staff Cybersecurity Analyst, Resilience and Disaster Recovery
About Rivian

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.

As a company, we constantly challenge what's possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced disaster recovery professional to develop and implement a comprehensive operational resilience and disaster recovery program across the company. This role will be responsible for establishing the disaster recovery framework, related policies and procedures, and ensure business continuity and minimize disruption in the event of incidents or disasters. In this role, you will develop the program; executing strategy, perform business impact analyses of critical apps, help critical system owners develop their DR plans, and help coordinate the testing of those plans, and maintain DR governance documents.

Responsibilities

Program Leadership & Governance

• Lead the Disaster Recovery (DR) program, defining long-term strategy and roadmap for Rivian's resilience.
• Own and refine DR governance, standards, and templates (policy, DRP templates, test work plans) across cloud, on-prem, and SaaS.
• Partner with Business Continuity leaders to align BC and DR strategies, including shared BIA, criticality tiers, and recovery thresholds.

Planning, BIA & Critical Application Coverage

• Lead Business Impact Analyses for critical applications and services, establishing and maintaining RTO/RPO targets.
• Maintain the inventory of critical assets and map them to DR requirements and tiers.
• Lead development of the Rivian IT DR Plan and support system owners in designing application-level plans, including backup, recovery, and failover/failback strategies.

Execution, Testing & Training

• Coordinate and lead tabletop, functional, and live DR tests; document scenarios, success criteria, and after-action reports, ensuring remediation is owned and tracked.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, Incident Response, and IT Operations to design and test cyber-disaster scenarios (e.g., ransomware, major data loss) that exercise both IR and DR playbooks.
• Develop and deliver DR training for system owners, IT responders, and business stakeholders.

Monitoring, Metrics & Continuous Improvement

• Define, track, and report DR KPIs and KRIs (RTO/RPO adherence, plan coverage, test success rates, corrective-action closure) to Cybersecurity leadership, Cyber Steer Co, and audit forums.
• Analyze test results, incidents, and audit findings to identify resilience gaps; prioritize remediation and update DR strategies, runbooks, and architectures.

Third-Party & Platform Resilience

• Lead vendor and third-party DR engagement (DRaaS providers, backup platforms, critical SaaS), including reviewing/negotiating DR-relevant SLAs and validating vendor capabilities.
• Partner with backup, cloud, and infrastructure teams to ensure DR patterns (immutable backups, multi-region failover) are designed, documented, and tested for critical workloads.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in disaster recovery, operational resilience, or business continuity, including hands-on work with DR planning, testing, and recovery events; exposure to cybersecurity, IT risk, or GRC preferred.
• Strong understanding of IT infrastructure and cloud platforms, including data backup and recovery for both on-prem and cloud-based solutions.
• Demonstrated experience leading BIAs, RTO/RPO definition, and DR testing for complex, distributed application portfolios.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate cross-functionally with IT, Cybersecurity, Business Continuity, Procurement, Legal, and business owners.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical DR concepts and trade-offs to non-technical audiences and executive stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, able to prioritize and execute multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

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