Enterprise Disaster Recovery Lead & Strategy

Insight Global; Norcross (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Disaster Recovery Lead to drive discovery and planning across the enterprise. You will partner with business leaders to identify critical processes, analyze dependencies, and translate findings into practical recovery strategies, runbooks, and documentation.

You will deliver a prioritized DR program for business-critical applications and technology, coordinating with technical teams to implement robust recovery, testing, and governance across hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience developing or managing enterprise Disaster Recovery programs.
• Experience conducting application discovery, Business Impact Analysis (BIA), application criticality assessments, or similar enterprise resilience activities.
• Strong understanding of RTO, RPO, application dependencies, recovery sequencing, backup and recovery strategies, high availability, and Disaster Recovery architecture.
• Experience developing detailed DR plans and technical recovery runbooks.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders to determine technology dependencies and recovery requirements.
• Ability to understand and document complex environments spanning infrastructure, applications, databases, cloud services, SaaS platforms, and third-party services.
• Strong project management, facilitation, organization, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Excellent written communication and technical documentation skills.
• Ability to independently drive discovery activities and follow up with stakeholders to obtain required information.
• Experience with enterprise environments utilizing Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.
• Familiarity with Azure Disaster Recovery technologies, backup and recovery services, and highly available cloud architectures.
• Experience with hybrid environments incorporating cloud, colocation/data center, and SaaS services.
• Experience conducting or facilitating DR tabletop exercises and technical recovery tests.
• Experience assessing third-party and SaaS vendor Disaster Recovery capabilities.
• Familiarity with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity frameworks and industry best practices.
• Experience developing sustainable DR governance, documentation standards, and recurring testing programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead an enterprise-wide disaster recovery discovery and planning initiative.
• Partner with business leaders to identify critical processes and recovery requirements.
• Translate findings into practical recovery strategies, runbooks, and documentation.
• Develop a comprehensive, prioritized, testable, and maintainable DR program for critical apps and tech.

Skills

Disaster Recovery programs

Application discovery

Business Impact Analysis

Criticality assessments

RTO/RPO

Dependencies

Recovery sequencing

Backup strategy

High availability

DR architecture

DR plans

Recovery runbooks

Stakeholder management

Tech dependencies

Complex environments

Infrastructure

Cloud services

SaaS platforms

Third-party services

Project management

Facilitation

Technical documentation

Written communication

Independent discovery

Azure

Microsoft 365

Azure DR

Hybrid environments

DR tabletop

Recovery tests

Vendor DR assessment

BC/DR frameworks

DR governance

Documentation standards

Recurring testing

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Disaster Recovery Lead to drive discovery and planning across the enterprise. You will partner with business leaders to identify critical processes, analyze dependencies, and translate findings into practical recovery strategies, runbooks, and documentation.

You will deliver a prioritized DR program for business-critical applications and technology, coordinating with technical teams to implement robust recovery, testing, and governance across hybrid environments.