Enterprise Disaster Recovery Lead & Resilience

Motion Recruitment; Allentown (Lehigh County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment seeks a Disaster Recovery Program Lead to drive enterprise-wide business continuity and DR initiatives. You will lead assessments, develop runbooks, and coordinate annual testing across on-prem, Azure cloud, and hybrid environments.

This hands-on leadership role requires 6–8 years in DR/BC, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to report progress to executives. Contract is 12 months with potential extension.

Qualifications

• 6–8 years in disaster recovery or business continuity.
• Proven DR testing, recovery planning, governance.
• Understanding of enterprise apps, Azure, infra, and cyber dependencies.
• Experience with ServiceNow BCM/CMDB and IT governance preferred.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Ability to work independently with multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead DR assessments and recovery strategy workshops with application owners and technical leads.
• Develop and maintain recovery plans, runbooks, test plans, and post-test review reports.
• Coordinate annual DR testing, failover exercises, and readiness validation across on-premises, cloud (Azure), and hybrid environments.
• Analyze application dependencies, RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives), RPOs (Recovery Point Objectives), and recovery requirements.
• Drive remediation of recovery gaps and track progress to closure.
• Support implementation and operation of ServiceNow BCM and CMDB processes.
• Deliver clear, executive-level reporting on DR status, metrics, and program health.

Skills

Disaster Recovery

Business Continuity

Infrastructure

IT Operations

Azure Cloud

Communication

Stakeholder Mgmt

Tools

ServiceNow BCM

CMDB

IT Governance

Job description

Motion Recruitment seeks a Disaster Recovery Program Lead to drive enterprise-wide business continuity and DR initiatives. You will lead assessments, develop runbooks, and coordinate annual testing across on-prem, Azure cloud, and hybrid environments.

This hands-on leadership role requires 6–8 years in DR/BC, strong stakeholder management, and the ability to report progress to executives. Contract is 12 months with potential extension.