Disaster Recovery Coordinator

Disaster Recovery Coordinator

Location – Newark, NJ

Duration – Fulltime Role

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 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.

• Experience supporting 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.

• 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.

• Lead and coordinate enterprise DR governance activities.
• Define and monitor DR KPIs including Recovery Time Objective (RTO), Recovery Point Objective (RPO), DR testing effectiveness, and compliance/audit metrics.
• Develop and maintain DR governance dashboards and executive reports.
• Drive compliance with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.

• Develop and maintain enterprise Disaster Recovery frameworks, standards, and methodologies.
• Support multi-year DR roadmap initiatives and technology modernization programs.
• Conduct infrastructure and application dependency assessments.
• Evaluate DR solutions across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Recommend resilience improvements for critical business services.

• Develop and maintain DR plans for critical applications and…