Description IT Resiliency Project Manager / Disaster Recovery Lead Location: Remote (Preference for candidates located in Connecticut or the Northeast)
Duration: Initial 6-Month Contract with Strong Extension Potential
Employment Type: Contract (This Contract is eligible for Paid Time Off Accrual)
About the Opportunity: Our client is seeking an experienced IT professional to help modernize and enhance enterprise disaster recovery, cyber resilience, and technology continuity capabilities.
This position will play a key role in assessing current-state recovery processes, developing future-state resilience strategies, improving disaster recovery documentation, and partnering with technology and business stakeholders to strengthen organizational preparedness.
The ideal candidate brings a strong technical IT background and understands how infrastructure, applications, networks, cloud services, and operational processes work together during recovery scenarios.
Responsibilities: - Support the modernization of enterprise IT disaster recovery and resilience programs
- Assist with development of future-state policies, standards, and governance frameworks
- Review, update, and enhance disaster recovery plans and supporting documentation
- Analyze previous incident response and recovery efforts to identify opportunities for improvement
- Help establish recovery prioritization strategies for critical systems and services
- Facilitate discussions with business and technology stakeholders to gather requirements and document dependencies
- Support technology criticality assessments and recovery readiness initiatives
- Identify risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities across technology recovery processes
- Develop presentations, reports, process documentation, and executive-ready materials
- Lead meetings, coordinate project activities, and drive assigned workstreams to completion
Technology Environment: Candidates should be comfortable working with:
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Microsoft Teams
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint
- Visio
Requirements Required Qualifications: - 5+ years of professional IT experience
- Experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Disaster Recovery
- IT Operations
- Infrastructure Engineering
- Systems Administration
- Cybersecurity
- Technology Risk
- Operational Resilience
- Understanding of application, infrastructure, network, and cloud technology dependencies
- Experience creating operational procedures, technical documentation, or governance materials
- Strong project coordination and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities
Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with business continuity or resilience initiatives
- Experience within healthcare or other highly regulated industries
- ServiceNow experience
- SharePoint experience
- Power BI experience
- Experience creating Visio diagrams, workflows, and recovery documentation
- PMP, ITIL, CISSP, CBCP, or related certifications
What We're Looking For: - Self-starter who takes ownership of projects and deliverables
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills
- Ability to identify gaps and develop practical recommendations
- Comfortable interacting with both technical and business audiences
- Strong meeting facilitation and communication skills
- Pragmatic, risk-based approach to solving problems and improving operational resilience
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