IT Resiliency Project Manager / Disaster Recovery Lead

Job Description

Job 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

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