Disaster Recovery Manager

AIQU; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

AIQU in Abu Dhabi is seeking a seasoned Disaster Business Continuity Manager to lead resilience of critical digital services across cloud and third‑party ecosystems.

You will define RTO/RPO, map requirements to Oil & Gas standards, execute recovery drills, review evidence, and provide dashboards on readiness, dependencies, and risks to stakeholders.

Immediate joiners preferred; 3-year outsourced contract based in Abu Dhabi with potential extensions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, CS/Engineering, information security, risk/compliance
• Professional cloud and risk/assurance certifications preferred (e.g., CRISC, CBCP)
• Energy or Oil & Gas industry experience is advantageous

Responsibilities

• Maintain the cloud and third-party managed services register with owners, suppliers, dependencies, escalation paths
• Define resilience and recoverability requirements and map them to industry standards and supplier obligations
• Execute assurance cycles for cloud and managed services resilience, including recovery tests and evidence review
• Provide BAU management reporting and dashboards on readiness, coverage, risks, and action closure
• Assess ecosystem dependency risks and coordinate supplier engagement for recovery constraints

Skills

Disaster Recovery

Business Continuity

Cloud Management

Risk & Compliance

Vendor Risk

Stakeholder Management

BCP Testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information systems/CS/Engineering/Info Security/Risk

Tools

CRISC

CBCP/ISO 22301

Azure/AWS/GCP

Job description

We are hiring for one of our major clients for the below requirement

Role: Disaster Business Continuity Manager

Employment Type: 3 year contract, outsourced, for one of our clients

Work Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Notice Period: Immediate joiners to a maximum of 15-30 days of notice

Required Experience:

• Must have 10+ years of relevant experience
• Maintain the cloud and third-party managed services register for critical digital services (owners, suppliers, shared responsibility boundaries, dependencies, criticality tiers, and escalation paths).
• Define and maintain resilience/recoverability requirements and evidence expectations for managed services (including RTO/RPO commitments where applicable) and map them to Oil & Gas industry standards and supplier obligations (contract/SLA/OLA).
• Execute assurance and validation cycles for cloud and managed services resilience (evidence review, technical validation where feasible, recovery test/drill assurance and results review) and maintain findings/gaps and remediation closure evidence.
• Provide BAU management reporting and dashboards on managed services readiness and recoverability (coverage, compliance status, open risks, action closure, provider constraints) and escal…
• Assess and manage ecosystem dependency risks (digital supply chain concentration/SPOFs, supplier incidents, contract renewal risk), coordinate supplier engagement for recovery constraints, and ensure alignment to DRPs/runbooks and major incident recovery procedures.
• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science/Engineering, Information Security, Risk/Compliance, or related discipline.
• Professional certification preferred: cloud certification (e.g., Azure/AWS/GCP), vendor/third-party risk or assurance (e.g., CRISC), and/or DR/BC certification (e.g., CBCP/ISO 22301) as applicable.
• Energy or Oil & Gas industrial experiene would be an added advantage.