DR Analyst

Apt; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Apt is seeking a Disaster Recovery Analyst to support enterprise recovery readiness by maintaining accurate recovery documentation, inventory, dependencies, testing materials, metrics, and audit-ready evidence. You will work with technology teams and stakeholders to validate recovery information and keep RTO/RPO documentation current.

Responsibilities include coordinating recovery exercises, collecting evidence, tracking actions, and ensuring audit readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of five years in a technology/technical analysis role.

Responsibilities

• Maintain DR inventory, recovery objective, contact, dependency, evidence, and recovery documentation records in approved enterprise systems.
• Gather and validate recovery information from technology teams, including objectives, dependencies, infrastructure, and cloud/ SaaS recovery details.
• Support tabletop, functional, and scenario-based tests by preparing materials, capturing evidence, documenting results, and tracking follow-up actions.
• Coordinate recovery exercises and lead activities, including scheduling, communication, material prep, evidence capture, results documentation, and follow-up tracking.
• Organize audit and regulatory evidence and identify missing or incomplete documentation for senior review.
• Maintain metrics and status updates for recovery readiness, tests, documentation quality, and corrective actions.

Skills

Disaster Recovery

Business Continuity

IT Operations

Technology Resilience

Infrastructure

Cloud

Technology Risk

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

The Disaster Recovery Analyst supports enterprise recovery readiness by maintaining accurate recovery documentation, inventory records, dependency data, testing materials, metrics, and compliance evidence. Working with technology teams and business stakeholders, the Analyst validates recovery information, maintains recovery time objective and recovery point objective documentation, supports exercise execution, and tracks corrective actions through closure. Under moderate guidance, this role helps keep recovery plans consistent, current, and audit-ready.

Success in this role is reflected in current and complete recovery records, well-supported recovery exercises, timely corrective-action follow-up, and audit-ready evidence.

Job Duties

• Maintain assigned DR inventory, recovery objective, contact, dependency, evidence, and recovery documentation records in approved enterprise systems.
• Gather and validate recovery information from technology teams, including recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, system dependencies, supporting infrastructure, vendor contacts, and cloud and software-as-a-service recovery details.
• Support tabletop, functional, and scenario-based recovery tests by preparing materials, capturing evidence, documenting results, and tracking follow-up actions.
• Coordinate recovery exercises and lead assigned activities, including scheduling, participant communication, material preparation, evidence capture, results documentation, and follow-up action tracking.
• Organize audit and regulatory evidence and identify missing, stale, or incomplete documentation for review by senior team members.
• Maintain metrics and status updates for recovery readiness, completed tests, documentation quality, and corrective actions, including ownership, due dates, and closure status.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of five years of experience in a technology or technical analysis role.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Two to four years of experience in one or more of the following disciplines: Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, IT Operations, Technology Resilience, Infrastructure, Cloud, or Technology Risk.
• Strong knowledge of systems and networks.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams to improve the DR program.
• Ability to understand and apply disaster recovery concepts across on-premises and cloud environments, including mainframe, IBM i, and virtual machine platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to gather technical information, document recovery requirements and test results, and communicate status to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Skills in planning, problem solving, organization and management