Business Resiliency​/Continuity Specialist

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Business Resiliency/ Continuity Specialist

Long Beach, CA

6 Months

The client is seeking a Digital Business Resiliency Specialist to lead critical initiatives in Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR). This role will be responsible for leading the adoption of a “resiliency” culture to help ensure that the client is protected from and able to absorb major threats to its operations. The person selected will work in partnership with other IM teams including the Network Operations Center (NOC), Security Operations Center (SOC), Service Desk, Business Application, and Technology Strategy & Architecture (TSA) teams.

They will also be expected to collaborate with business leaders, risk management, physical security, facilities, maintenance, and executives to ensure critical business functions can continue during disruptions and recover effectively following incidents.

As the Business Resiliency Specialist, you will play a critical role in ensuring that the client can quickly recover and resume normal business operations after a major disruption, such as a natural disaster, cybersecurity incident, or other catastrophic event. Your goal will be to ensure our critical operations can withstand, adapt to, and rapidly recover from major disruptions—ranging from cyber incidents and technology failures to natural disasters and supply chain shocks.

You will be responsible for developing, implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving the organization's business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, and operational resilience programs.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate a “resiliency mindset” and show experience leading initiatives that produced proactive results. The candidate must have strong analytical skills, project management capabilities, risk assessment expertise, and stakeholder engagement skills to build organizational resilience and ensure regulatory compliance.

• Lead and facilitate the development of comprehensive BIAs across business units to identify critical functions, business and IT dependencies, Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
• Design, document, and maintain actionable Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) plans that align with corporate standards and industry best practices. Work closely with the Disaster Recovery Analyst, Business Application (BA) Team, Network Operations Center (NOC), and Security Operations Center (SOC) teams to align continuity strategies with disaster recovery, infrastructure resilience, and cybersecurity protections.
• Conduct regular risk assessments to identify mission-critical systems, dependencies, operational vulnerabilities, single points of failure, and third-party vendor risks. Understand risks to operational delivery and develop recommendations and execution plans to reduce risk across the enterprise.
• Coordinate and lead tabletop exercises, disaster recovery drills, and crisis simulation games for Information Management - owned systems to validate response plans and evaluate team readiness. Create and publish After Action Reports (AAR) and document lessons learned following tests or realworld events, tracking corrective actions to closure.
• Ensure continuity strategies are integrated into…