Disaster Recovery Specialist

Company Description Riffle Resilience is a business continuity platform built directly into Jira Service Management and the Atlassian platform, helping organizations manage continuity where IT and operations already collaborate. The platform replaces siloed BC tools with an Atlassian-native environment that supports planning, prioritization, and incident activation in one place. Riffle enables business-led continuity through value stream and asset-based planning, collaborative living plans in Confluence, and one-click activation in Jira Service Management during disruptions. Through Riffle Consulting, the company also offers program design and development services using Value Stream Mapping to modernize continuity frameworks and embed resilience into daily workflows. This combination of technology and consulting provides a modern, integrated approach to organizational resilience.

Disaster Recovery Consultant — Healthcare IT

Riffle Resilience is seeking an experienced Disaster Recovery (DR) Consultant to support a healthcare application DR readiness initiative. The consultant will work with application owners, infrastructure teams, vendors, and Riffle project leadership to review existing DR documentation, identify gaps, and develop standardized application-level DR plans.

Key Responsibilities

• Review existing application DR plans for completeness, quality, and operational readiness.
• Develop DR plans for applications where plans are missing or inadequate.
• Document application recovery strategies, technical dependencies, recovery sequencing, roles, escalation paths, and vendor responsibilities.
• Validate RTO/RPO assumptions with application and infrastructure SMEs.
• Review evidence of DR testing and identify testing or documentation gaps.
• Facilitate focused interviews with application owners, infrastructure teams, and third-party vendors.
• Apply a standardized DR planning methodology consistently across a portfolio of healthcare applications.
• Document findings and plans within the Riffle platform.
• Support quality review and preparation of completed applications for client and compliance/legal review.

Ideal Background

• 5+ years of IT Disaster Recovery / Technology Resilience experience.
• Experience developing application-level DR plans in large, complex environments.
• Strong understanding of RTO, RPO, backups, infrastructure dependencies, recovery strategies, and DR testing .
• Experience working with cloud, SaaS, vendor-hosted, and internally hosted applications.
• Healthcare experience strongly preferred; familiarity with HIPAA Security Rule BCDR requirements is beneficial.
• Able to independently facilitate technical conversations and challenge incomplete or unclear recovery assumptions.
• Strong documentation skills and ability to work efficiently within standardized templates.

Engagement Type: Contract to hire / Project-Based initially

• Initial Project: Approximately September–December 2026, with potential opportunity to support the larger 2027 application DR program.