Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Coordinator

State of Oklahoma; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation and sick leave

Paid holidays

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

The State of Oklahoma's Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) seeks a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Coordinator to strengthen enterprise resilience through comprehensive continuity planning, disaster recovery execution, and risk management.

You will develop and maintain a DR program, collaborate across divisions to set recovery objectives, create runbooks, BIAs, and BCPs, and lead tests and audits to ensure readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required plus five years of professional disaster recovery/continuity experience.
• Experience developing BIAs and BC Plans and maintaining risk registries.
• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Perform DR and Business Continuity planning and risk assessment activities.
• Develop and maintain a DR Program supporting 24/7 operations.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to develop DR/runbooks for critical processes.
• Define RTOs and RPOs for business-critical apps and services.
• Assist in embedding DR/BC requirements into architecture and operations.
• Lead DR tests, tabletop exercises, and validation activities.
• Provide DR/BC reports and recommendations to IT leadership.
• Document supply-chain dependencies and mitigation strategies.
• Maintain centralized DR/BC documentation repository.

Skills

Disaster recovery coordination

Emergency management

Business continuity

Education

Bachelor’s degree in emergency management, business continuity, information technology, public administration, or related field

Job description

Job Posting Title

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Coordinator

Agency

090 OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTERPRISE SERV

Supervisory Organization

CIO

Job Posting End Date

Refer to the date listed at the top of this posting, if available. Continuous if date is blank. Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.

Full/Part-Time

Full time

Job Type

Regular

Job Description

As a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Coordinator with OMES you will enjoy:

• Generous leave including 15 days of vacation, 15 days of sick leave and 11 paid holidays annually.


• A comprehensive Benefit Package with a generous benefit allowance to offset the cost of insurance premiums for employees and their eligible dependents.

Job Details

• Full-time 40-hour work weeks.


• Support the Information Services Division.


• Salary is based on education and experience.


• This is an on-site position located in Oklahoma City, OK.

Position Summary

The Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Coordinator supports IT Enterprise Governance by strengthening OMES organizational resilience through comprehensive continuity planning, disaster recovery execution, and proactive risk management. This role develops and maintains a business-critical Disaster Recovery Program; collaborates with cross-functional OMES teams to establish recovery objectives; provides guidance to stakeholders on the creation of executable recovery plans and runbooks; and leads the development, validation, and maintenance of Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) and Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) specific to OMES. The position conducts risk and impact assessments, maintains the enterprise risk registry, analyzes supply-chain dependencies, and incorporates lessons learned from incidents and exercises while supporting continuity-related training and internal tabletop facilitation. Through structured planning, vendor coordination, evidence collection for audits, and continuous improvement, the BCDR Coordinator enhances OMES’s overall business continuity and disaster recovery posture.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning and risk assessment activities, ensuring alignment with OMES IS continuity policies and statewide resilience objectives.


• Develop and maintain a business-critical Disaster Recovery Program that supports high availability and data integrity for IT systems and services within a 24/7 operational model.


• Coordinate cross-functional teams (infrastructure, application support, security, agency SMEs) to develop and maintain disaster recovery/resumption plans and runbooks for critical processes and systems.


• Partner with stakeholders to define Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for business-critical applications and core services, ensuring consistency with DR strategies and platform capabilities.


• Assist in developing IT infrastructure strategies and roadmaps to ensure Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity requirements are embedded into architecture, operations, and system lifecycles.


• Advance operational incident response readiness through resilience planning and continuity-informed response procedures.


• Coordinate vendor relationships for Disaster Recovery services and lead planning, coordination, and execution of resilience testing and validation activities.


• Design, coordinate, and execute periodic disaster recovery tests, including tabletop exercises and physical failovers, to validate technical recovery capabilities and overall organizational readiness.


• Provide Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity reports and recommendations to IT leadership, including strategy updates, process improvements, and technology or procedural enhancements.


• Facilitate disaster risk/threat vulnerability assessments and analyze the effectiveness of DR and continuity processes, developing measurable and sustainable improvements.


• Coordinate with internal and external partners to document supply-chain dependencies for critical infrastructure and develop mitigation strategies for identified risks.


• Maintain the Risk Registry, drive internal risk meetings, identify controls, assign ownership, and track remediation to reduce operational, technical, and continuity-related risks.


• Maintain and steward a centralized repository of OMES DR/BC documentation, including BIA, BCP, DR, and after-action reports detailing identified gaps or completeness concerns.


• Conduct daily facility walks to inspect and document the condition of critical infrastructure, including power, cooling, physical security, and environmental systems, ensuring early detection of anomalies and alignment with the Critical Infrastructure Operations Standard.


• Perform other duties as assigned to support OMES, partner agencies, and the mission of IT Enterprise Governance.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

This position works in a comfortable office setting with a computer for a large percentage of the workday. The noise level in the work environment is usually mild. Occasional travel may be required.

Minimum Qualifications

Requirements include a bachelor’s degree in emergency management, business continuity, information technology, public administration, or a related field, plus five years of professional experience in disaster recovery coordination, emergency management, continuity of operations planning, business continuity, or resilience program development; or an equivalent combination of education and experience, substituting twelve semester hours of coursework in emergency management, information systems, public administration, or a related field for each year of the required experience, with a maximum substitution of two years.

About OMES

The Office of Management and Enterprise Services provides excellent service, expert guidance and continuous improvement in support of our partners’ goals. We are a highly qualified workforce committed to serve those who serve Oklahomans and make government run in the most efficient, innovative manner possible.

OMES is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities may be provided upon request.

The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.

Current active State of Oklahoma employees must apply for open positions internally through the Workday Jobs Hub.