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Role: Disaster Recovery Manager
Duration: 6 Month Contract to Hire
Location: New York, NY (10017) - Onsite 1 to 2 times per week
Role Summary
This role owns enterprise disaster recovery execution and readiness, ensuring critical systems and applications can be restored quickly and effectively during outages or declared disasters. This person will lead recovery events, testing, and governance across a large, tiered environment.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Serve as Active/Backup Responder on Duty (AROD/BROD) during disaster events (rotational on-call)
- Lead disaster recovery activation and execution when events are declared
- Coordinate recovery across infrastructure, application, cybersecurity, and vendor teams
- Run real-time recovery command calls and track decisions, dependencies, and progress
- Ensure all DR plans and runbooks are current, tested, and executable
- Partner with app owners to validate recovery and confirm service restoration
- Plan and lead DR testing, tabletop exercises, and simulations
- Track audit requirements, compliance, and DR readiness metrics
- Drive post-event reviews and remediation tracking
Requirements:
- 8 years in Disaster Recovery, IT Operations, or Service Management
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams during high-pressure situations
- Strong communication skills (comfortable with leadership updates)
- Willingness to participate in 24/7 on-call rotation
- Experience creating runbooks, table top delivery and technical dress rehearsals
- Hands-on experience leading DR events or recovery execution
- Strong understanding of:
○ Application tiering & dependencies
○ Infrastructure and cloud recovery strategies
○ Business continuity concepts
Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.
Compensation: $70hr to $75hr
Salary : $70 - $75