Senior Continuity & IT Disaster Recovery Manager

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research, an Accenture Federal Services company, seeks a Continuity Manager to lead the development, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of business continuity and IT disaster recovery capabilities across federal operations.

You will conduct business impact analyses and risk assessments, align plans with NIST, ISO, and ITIL, and coordinate tests, readiness reviews, and audit-ready reporting for leadership and regulators.

Qualifications

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and project-management skills.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for leadership and audit stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise continuity and IT disaster recovery policies, standards, and playbooks aligned with NIST, ISO, and government regulations, ensuring readiness and compliance across the organization.
• Perform business impact analyses and risk assessments to identify critical functions, recovery time objectives (RTOs), recovery point objectives (RPOs), resource requirements, and dependencies across technical and business services.
• Coordinate creation, maintenance, and periodic review of continuity and recovery plans for applications, infrastructure, facilities, personnel, and vendor-supported services to keep documentation current and audit-ready.
• Plan, execute, and evaluate tabletop exercises, simulations, and failover or recovery tests; identify gaps and drive remediation with accountable stakeholders.
• Collaborate with IT operations, cybersecurity, incident response, problem management, service owners, and vendors to integrate continuity and resilience requirements into projects, changes, releases, and operations.
• Produce continuity and resilience metrics, dashboards, and reports for leadership and compliance stakeholders, including plan maturity, test results, readiness assessments, and incident or recovery outcomes.
• Lead or support investigations following incidents; facilitate ITIL-aligned root cause analysis and guide corrective actions.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in resilience, continuity, and recovery best practices, providing training and guidance to IT teams.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Organizational skills

Project management

Written communication

Verbal communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Emergency Management, or related field

Job description

ASM Research, an Accenture Federal Services company, seeks a Continuity Manager to lead the development, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of business continuity and IT disaster recovery capabilities across federal operations.

You will conduct business impact analyses and risk assessments, align plans with NIST, ISO, and ITIL, and coordinate tests, readiness reviews, and audit-ready reporting for leadership and regulators.