Disaster Recovery Lead

Australian Bureau of Meteorology; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Australian Bureau of Meteorology is seeking a Disaster Recovery Lead to direct ICT disaster recovery and operational resilience for critical technology services, ensuring planned, tested, and funded recovery after disruptions including cyber incidents, infrastructure failures, and natural hazards.

The role collaborates with business and technology teams to set recovery priorities, objectives, and investment proposals, providing governance, testing, lessons learned, and continuous improvement to

Qualifications

• Proven experience in disaster recovery, service continuity or infrastructure resilience.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams.
• Sound judgement, prioritisation and investment planning for resilience.

Responsibilities

• Lead disaster recovery governance, scenario testing and lessons learned.
• Coordinate cross‑functional teams to ensure resilient IT service delivery.
• Align recovery plans with enterprise risk, cyber security and asset planning.

Skills

Disaster recovery

Service continuity

Infrastructure resilience

Stakeholder management

Governance

Scenario testing

Risk assessment

Funding and planning

Job description

The Disaster Recovery Lead, leads the Bureau’s approach to ICT disaster recovery and operational resilience for critical technology services. Reporting within the Planning and Architecture program, the role is responsible for ensuring the organisation has a planned, tested and funded approach to recovering critical IT services following disruption, including cyber incidents, infrastructure failures, supplier outages and natural hazards.

The role works across business and technology teams to identify critical services, dependencies, recovery priorities, recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives, and to translate these into practical recovery strategies, plans and investment proposals. It provides leadership for disaster recovery governance, scenario testing, lessons learned and continuous improvement, ensuring arrangements are aligned with enterprise risk, cyber security, service continuity and asset planning processes.

The successful candidate will bring strong experience in disaster recovery, service continuity or infrastructure resilience, together with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams in a complex operating environment. They will exercise sound judgement, manage competing priorities and provide expert advice that supports resilient service delivery across the Bureau.