Director, Cybersecurity Recovery & Resiliency

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC); Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model (3 onsite / 2 remote

Base pay and annual incentive

Health and life insurance

Pension / Retirement benefits

Paid Time Off and personal/family care

Job summary

DTCC is seeking a Director of Cyber Resiliency to lead recovery capabilities across on-prem and cloud environments. The role focuses on immutable backup strategies, air-gapped recovery, and full-stack restoration for critical services.

You will partner with Security, Infrastructure, Risk, and Business Continuity to develop strategies, run exercises, and report to executives. A hybrid work model and strong leadership are required.

Qualifications

• Min 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree and/or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise cyber resiliency strategy and roadmap for recovering from extreme cyber events, tracking key recovery metrics and reporting to senior leadership and risk committees.
• Lead immutable/air-gapped backup infrastructure, including malware and integrity scanning of backup data and forensic support for incident investigations, in partnership with the IR/Forensics team.
• Own recovery readiness for critical infrastructure and applications across mainframe, Linux/VMware, storage, and cloud, in partnership with Infrastructure and Cloud teams.
• Serve as the key liaison to Business Continuity, Risk, and Audit on resiliency posture and regulatory readiness, and represent cyber resiliency in incident response and crisis management planning.
• Hire, develop, and lead the resiliency engineering team, and manage vendor/managed-service relationships supporting recovery tooling.

Skills

Leadership

Executive communication

Regulatory resilience

Stakeholder management

Cyber recovery capabilities

Cloud recovery

Incident response coordination

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Job description

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay And Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact You Will Have In This Role

Being a member of IT Cybersecurity & Platform Strategy team, the Director, Cyber Resiliency will build, lead, and mature our capability focusing on recovery from destructive events that may impact core business operations. This is a hands-on leadership role accountable for two core capability areas:

• Immutable backup recovery: immutable, air-gapped backup storage, malware and ransomware analysis on backup data, and digital forensics support to enable clean, trusted recovery decisions.
• Full-stack and bare-metal recovery: the capability to rebuild and restore infrastructure and applications from the ground up following a significant cyber-induced disruption.

The environment spans on-premise data center infrastructure (mainframe, distributed databases, application servers on Linux/VMware, and enterprise storage) as well as public cloud. The successful candidate will bridge traditional infrastructure resiliency with modern cloud recovery patterns and will be a key partner to Security, Infrastructure, Business Continuity, Risk, and Technology leadership.

Your Primary Responsibilities

Cyber Resiliency Strategy & Program Leadership

• Own the enterprise cyber resiliency strategy and roadmap for recovering from extreme cyber events (ransomware, destructive malware, data corruption), tracking key recovery metrics and reporting to senior leadership and risk committees.

Isolated & Immutable Backup Recovery

• Lead immutable/air-gapped backup infrastructure, including malware and integrity scanning of backup data and forensic support for incident investigations, in partnership with the IR/Forensics team.

Full-Stack & Bare-Metal Recovery

• Own recovery readiness (runbooks, automation, and regular testing) for critical infrastructure and applications across mainframe, Linux/VMware, storage, and cloud, in partnership with Infrastructure and Cloud teams.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Governance

• Serve as the key liaison to Business Continuity, Risk, and Audit on resiliency posture and regulatory readiness, and represent cyber resiliency in incident response and crisis management planning.

Team Leadership

• Hire, develop, and lead the resiliency engineering team, and manage vendor/managed-service relationships supporting recovery tooling.

NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above.

Qualifications

• Min 10+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s Degree and/or equivalent experience

Talents Needed For Success

• 10+ years of progressive experience in infrastructure, disaster recovery, business continuity, or security roles, with at least 4-5 years in a leadership capacity.
• Demonstrated experience designing or operating cyber recovery capabilities (isolated recovery environments, immutable backups, bare-metal recovery) — not just traditional DR/BCP.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, ideally spanning mainframe systems, distributed databases, Linux/VMware server environments, and enterprise storage platforms.
• Hands-on familiarity with public cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and recovery patterns (backup, snapshotting, cross-region/account recovery, access considerations for isolated recovery).
• Experience with ransomware/malware forensics concepts and backup integrity validation, or close partnership with forensics/IR teams.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale recovery exercises (tabletop through full-scale) and reporting outcomes to senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of regulatory/operational resilience expectations relevant to the industry.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills; ability to translate technical recovery posture into business risk terms.
• Isolated backup and full-stack recovery capabilities are documented, tested, and validated against defined RTO/RPO targets for the organization's most critical services.
• A recurring cyber recovery exercise program is in place with executive-level reporting.
• Clear, auditable evidence of immutable backup coverage and recovery runbooks across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Strong working relationships established with Security, Infrastructure, Business Continuity and Risk stakeholders.

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.