Disaster Recovery Architect — Hybrid/Remote

MSU (Michigan State University) Federal Credit Union; East Lansing (MI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision, Life, and Long

Paid holidays

Job summary

MSU Federal Credit Union is seeking a Disaster Recovery Specialist to design, implement, and continuously improve enterprise disaster recovery (DR) strategy and tests, ensuring alignment with business continuity objectives and regulatory requirements.

You will collaborate with IT and Business Leadership to coordinate DR exercises, validate backups and failover mechanisms, and document test outcomes with remediation plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Risk Management, Cybersecurity, or related field, or 3+ years in DR/BC in lieu of degree.
• Experience applying DR/BC regulatory guidance (NCUA, FFIEC, ISO 22301) and supporting audits.
• Leadership in DR program activities and cross-functional coordination.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and continuously improve enterprise disaster recovery (DR) strategy and testing.
• Collaborate with IT to develop, maintain, and update DR plans for systems, apps, platforms, and cloud infrastructure.
• Coordinate DR exercises (tabletop, functional, simulated) and lead full-scale testing with clear objectives and success criteria.
• Analyze test outcomes, identify gaps, and drive remediation plans to closure.
• Ensure DR capabilities are integrated into the application lifecycle (CI/CD, backups, redundancy, failover).
• Validate backups and failover mechanisms; advise on resilience design and operational readiness.
• Ensure DR program meets regulatory requirements and maintains audit documentation.

Skills

Disaster Recovery

Regulatory compliance

Incident coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT / Risk / Cybersecurity

Tools

DR testing tools

Job description

MSU Federal Credit Union is seeking a Disaster Recovery Specialist to design, implement, and continuously improve enterprise disaster recovery (DR) strategy and tests, ensuring alignment with business continuity objectives and regulatory requirements.

You will collaborate with IT and Business Leadership to coordinate DR exercises, validate backups and failover mechanisms, and document test outcomes with remediation plans.