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Technical Execution Lead
Veterans Sourcing Group
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
Staff / Principal
6 months ago
- Disaster Recovery
- Azure
- ITIL
6 months ago
Duration: 12+ Months (Possible extension)
Location: New York, NY 10286
Onsite Role (4 days a week)
Responsibilities:
- Lead will manage the resiliency strategy and execution - setting governance, driving DR and contingency capabilities, and ensuring measurable readiness and rapid recovery.
- Establish resiliency strategy and governance, including policy frameworks, standards, control objectives, and success metrics aligned to business impact and risk appetite.
- Create disaster recovery roadmaps; ensure KPIs and recovery objectives (RPO/RTO) are defined, measured, and reported across platforms.
- Oversee design, publication and ongoing maintenance of contingency planning policies and procedures tailored to an Azure public cloud environment
- Ensure adoption across lines of business and platforms.
- Direct development of system-specific contingency plans, setting expectations for roles/responsibilities, recovery objectives, restoration priorities, failover patterns, and executive communication protocols.
- Institutionalize a program for contingency training and exercises (tabletop, functional, and full-scale), including plan testing, after-action reviews, and remediation tracking with transparent ownership and target dates.
- Set-up executive-level resiliency testing reporting and dashboards for readiness posture, drill performance, plan coverage, corrective action closure, and remediation backlog
- Lead continuous improvement: analyze cross-platform lessons learned, prioritize enterprise-level remediation and investments, and update policies/standards accordingly.
- 10 + years in technical management, reliability/operations, or platform engineering with 7+ years leading resiliency/DR/BCP at enterprise scale in cloud environments.
- Demonstrated experience designing and delivering Azure resiliency programs across multiple platforms/business lines, including architecture standards, program governance, and executive reporting.
- Experience with Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, cross-region replication, and hybrid DR strategies, as well as leading enterprise-wide DR testing & cloud failover exercises.
- Expertise in defining and enforcing KPIs/SLAs, recovery objectives (RPO/RTO), and control adherence
- Experience presenting to senior leadership, risk committees, and auditors/regulators.
- Deep familiarity with standards and frameworks (e.g., NIST SP 800-34, ISO 22301, ISO 27031) and operational best practices (e.g., ITIL), with proven ability to translate them into actionable controls and operating procedures.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field required
- Master's degree strongly preferred.
- Advanced certifications are a plus (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert, CBCP, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer, ITIL v4).
Technical Execution Lead · Veterans Sourcing Group