Disaster Recovery Lead — IT Resilience & Planning

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Dover (DE); On-site; USD 65,000 - 71,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research in Dover, DE seeks a Disaster Recovery Specialist to lead and maintain disaster recovery strategies supporting mission-critical IT services in a highly regulated federal environment. You will conduct risk and impact analyses, define recovery objectives, coordinate regular exercises, and drive continuous improvement while training staff and capturing lessons learned.

The role partners with infrastructure, application, network, and security teams to ensure backups, replication, high

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 4–7 years of experience in disaster recovery, business continuity, IT operations, or closely related resilience functions within complex IT environments.
• Understanding of disaster recovery principles, frameworks, and best practices with experience developing DR plans, risk assessments, and testing.
• Active SECRET security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain required clearance.
• U.S. citizenship as required for federal contracting environment.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Less than 10% travel required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans, runbooks, and playbooks with RTO/RPO and communication protocols.
• Conduct risk assessments and business impact analyses to identify critical systems and dependencies.
• Coordinate disaster recovery testing programs, tabletop exercises, and full failovers; document gaps and actions.
• Partner with infra, application, network, and security teams to design backup, replication, high-availability, and failover.
• Monitor IT environment changes to keep DR docs and inventories up to date.
• Develop and deliver training materials so staff understand DR procedures and roles.
• Ensure DR plans meet policies, regulatory requirements, and prepare evidence for audits.
• Track and report DR metrics and readiness indicators, recommending improvements.

Skills

Disaster recovery

Business continuity

IT operations

Analytical skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field

Job description

ASM Research in Dover, DE seeks a Disaster Recovery Specialist to lead and maintain disaster recovery strategies supporting mission-critical IT services in a highly regulated federal environment. You will conduct risk and impact analyses, define recovery objectives, coordinate regular exercises, and drive continuous improvement while training staff and capturing lessons learned.

The role partners with infrastructure, application, network, and security teams to ensure backups, replication, high