Cybersecurity Disaster Recovery Expert

In4Matic; Belgique; À distance; EUR 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

In4Matic is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Disaster Recovery Expert to lead DR, resilience, and business continuity strategy. You will govern validated recovery strategies aligned with business priorities and cybersecurity requirements, working with business and technology stakeholders.

You will shape recovery architectures, challenge assumptions, and elevate the organization’s resilience maturity across hybrid cloud and on-prem environments.

Qualifications

• 20+ years IT experience, incl. 10+ years in Disaster Recovery, Resilience or Business Continuity.
• Proven DR capabilities in complex, interconnected environments.
• Strong knowledge ISO 27031 and NIST 800-34; NIS2 requirements.
• Hands-on multi-site and hybrid-cloud architectures, networks, storage, replication, failover.

Responsabilités

• Define and maintain DR strategies, policies, standards and governance.
• Assess and validate RTO/RPO requirements across solution architecture.
• Advise on multi-site recovery, failover patterns and infrastructure dependencies.
• Provide cost-benefit analysis for DR configurations and recovery approaches.
• Review DR testing results, identify gaps, drive remediation.
• Establish KPIs, KRIs, dashboards and reporting for senior stakeholders.
• Ensure dependency mapping and architectural alignment across environments.
• Support stakeholders through complex recovery scenarios and guidance on DR design.
• Coach teams on DR responsibilities, testing and continuous improvement.
• Assess DR maturity and roadmap for continuous improvement.
• Identify opportunities to improve governance, automation, tooling and resilience culture.
• Collaborate with business owners, IT, risk, audit and external partners.

Connaissances

Disaster Recovery

Resilience

Business Continuity

Stakeholder influence

Hybrid-cloud architectures

Maturity assessments

Communication

Formation

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Outils

CISSP

Risk management certification

Description du poste

Function

We’re looking for aSenior Cybersecurity Disaster Recovery Expertto join our client’s team and provide strategic leadership across disaster recovery (DR), business continuity, and IT resilience. You will shape and govern realistic, validated recovery strategies, ensuring they align with business priorities, cybersecurity requirements, and technical architecture. Working across business and technology stakeholders, you’ll provide independent expertise on complex recovery scenarios, challenge assumptions, and help strengthen the organization’s overall resilience maturity.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain DR strategies, policies, standards, frameworks, templates, and governance practices.

• Assess and validateRTO/RPO requirements, ensuring they are realistic and reflected in solution architecture.

• Advise onmulti-site recovery, failover patterns, replication strategies, infrastructure dependencies, and hybrid cloud/on-premises environments.

• Provide cost-benefit analysis for architectural decisions, including recovery-site configurations, datacenter distance, replication tiers, and recovery approaches.

• Review DR testing and readiness results, identify gaps, and drive actionable remediation.

• Establish and maintainKPIs, KRIs, dashboards, resilience heatmaps, and reportingfor senior stakeholders.

• Ensure dependency mapping and architectural alignment across complex, highly interconnected environments.

• Support stakeholders through complex recovery scenarios and provide pragmatic guidance on DR design and implementation.

• Coach teams on their DR responsibilities, documentation, testing, and continuous improvement.

• Assess organizational DR maturity using recognized frameworks and establish a roadmap for continuous improvement.

• Identify opportunities to improve governance, processes, automation, tooling, metrics, and resilience culture.

• Work closely with business owners, IT and architecture teams, risk and audit functions, crisis-management teams, infrastructure specialists, and external partners.

Profile

• 20+ years of IT experience, including10+ years specializing in Disaster Recovery, Resilience, or Business Continuity.

• Proven experience establishing and improving DR capabilities in complex, highly interconnected environments.

• Strong knowledge ofISO 27031 and NIST 800-34, as well as resilience-related requirements underNIS2.

• Hands-on understanding ofmulti-site and hybrid-cloud architectures, networks, storage, replication, failover, and recovery patterns.

• Demonstrable experience conductingmaturity assessments and improvement programs, supported by concrete examples in your CV.

• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive changewithout direct reporting authority.

• Experience translating business requirements into practical resilience and recovery strategies, including experience working beyond purely technical/IT environments.

• CISSP certificationplus at least one relevant risk-management certification.

• MinimumBachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

• Fluency inDutch, French, and English, both spoken and written, atC1 level or above.

• Relevant Disaster Recovery certifications and experience in critical infrastructure or other high-dependency environments are advantageous.

• Candidates should be able to providea recommendation letter from a previous employer or clientdemonstrating a successful track record in establishing Disaster Recovery capabilities in a comparable environment. This should be included as part of the submitted CV.

Assessment

As part of the selection process, candidates may be asked to complete supplementarytechnical tests, assessments, or case-based exercises. Your CV should clearly demonstrate relevant experience against the requirements above, ideally supported by specific examples, measurable outcomes, and details of the environments in which you delivered DR and resilience initiatives.

Contactperson & Reference

• Reference #: INW27869
• Pieter Messely
• [e-mail]