Genesis10 is currently seeking a Disaster Recovery Project Manager position with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC. This is a hybrid 12 month contract opportunity. This role leads the planning, coordination, and governance of cloud disaster recovery testing activities across a portfolio of applications. The ideal candidate will ensure recovery exercises are executed in accordance with resiliency standards, recovery objectives, and regulatory expectations while driving stakeholder alignment, issue resolution, and successful test outcomes.
Responsibilities: - Manage and coordinate disaster recovery testing for multiple cloud-hosted applications, ensuring testing activities are planned, scheduled, executed, and documented in accordance with program requirements
- Partner with application owners, cloud engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, business continuity, and business stakeholders to establish testing scope, objectives, recovery scenarios, and success criteria
- Develop and maintain integrated testing schedules, project plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and remediation tracking across a large application portfolio
- Facilitate test planning meetings, readiness reviews, test execution bridges, post-test reviews, and governance forums
- Coordinate recovery validation activities and ensure achievement of established RTO, RPO, and resiliency objectives
- Track testing compliance, evidence collection, documentation quality, action plans, and regulatory readiness requirements
- Communicate testing status, risks, issues, and recovery results to senior management and executive stakeholders through regular reporting and governance updates
- Drive cross-functional coordination to resolve testing challenges, resource constraints, dependency impacts, and scheduling conflicts
- Support continuous improvement initiatives related to cloud resiliency, recovery automation, testing standards, and governance processes
- Maintain accurate inventory, testing metrics, dashboards, and program reporting for dozens of applications across multiple testing cycles
Requirements: - Proven experience in IT Project Management, Technical Program Management, Disaster Recovery, Technology Resilience, Infrastructure Operations, or Technology Governance
- Strong understanding of cloud technologies, disaster recovery principles, application recovery testing, business continuity concepts, and operational resilience frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, stakeholders, and project dependencies within a complex technology environment
- Experience developing and maintaining project plans, status reporting, risk management artifacts, executive communications, and governance documentation
- Proficiency with project and workflow management tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, ServiceNow, and SharePoint
- Excellent communication, organizational, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills
Desired skills: - Experience within financial services, regulated industries, or large-scale enterprise technology organizations
- PMP, Agile, Scrum, ITIL, Business Continuity, or related certification
Pay range: up to $51.15 per hour Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position. If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply! Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10: - Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20 years.
- The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
- Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
- Behavioral Health Platform
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
- Voluntary Term Life Insurance
- 401K
- Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
- Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)
For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.
Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Never miss an opportunity! Create an alert based on the job you applied for.