3-5 years of experience in IT project management and disaster recovery coordination.
Practical understanding of cloud infrastructure and disaster recovery processes.
Experience with RTO, RPO, and recovery validation requirements.
Proficiency in project management tools like Microsoft Project, Jira, or ServiceNow.
Strong communication and organizational skills, with the ability to translate technical issues into actionable updates.
Responsibilities
Lead planning and coordination of disaster recovery testing for cloud applications.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish recovery testing requirements.
Develop and maintain project schedules, risk registers, and testing calendars.
Facilitate disaster recovery planning sessions and post-test reviews.
Monitor testing progress and document recovery outcomes against governance standards.
Prepare dashboards and executive reports to communicate program health.
Coordinate corrective actions following recovery testing.
Benefits
Hybrid work arrangement with onsite and remote flexibility.
Exposure to enterprise technology resilience initiatives in a regulated environment.
Opportunity to collaborate with diverse technical and business teams.
Engagement in a 12-month contract with a focus on cloud recovery processes.
Full Job Description
Job Description
As a Cloud Disaster Recovery Project Manager, you will coordinate enterprise-wide disaster recovery testing initiatives, working with technical and business stakeholders to ensure cloud-hosted applications can meet established recovery objectives. This opportunity is ideal for a project management professional who understands cloud infrastructure, technology resilience, and the governance required to execute complex recovery testing programs.
What's In Store For You
Location: Charlotte, NC
Work Arrangement: Hybrid - Combination of onsite and remote work; onsite frequency to be confirmed.
Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099).
Contract Duration: 12 months.
Collaborate with cloud engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and business continuity professionals.
Gain exposure to enterprise technology resilience initiatives within a highly regulated financial services environment.
Coordinate recovery testing across a broad portfolio of cloud-hosted applications.
Contribute to improvements in disaster recovery readiness, testing governance, and operational resilience.
How You Will Make An Impact
Lead the planning, scheduling, and coordination of disaster recovery testing across multiple cloud-based applications.
Work with application owners, cloud engineers, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity specialists, and business continuity stakeholders to establish recovery testing requirements and execution plans.
Develop and maintain project schedules, testing calendars, milestones, dependencies, risk registers, and remediation tracking.
Facilitate disaster recovery planning sessions, readiness assessments, test execution meetings, and post-test reviews.
Coordinate application recovery validation activities against established Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
Monitor testing progress, document recovery outcomes, and ensure supporting evidence meets internal governance and regulatory expectations.
Identify scheduling conflicts, technical dependencies, resource constraints, and operational risks that could affect recovery exercises.
Prepare dashboards, executive status reports, testing metrics, and governance updates to communicate program health and outstanding issues.
Coordinate corrective actions and remediation efforts following recovery testing.
Support initiatives to improve cloud recovery processes, testing consistency, operational resilience, and recovery automation.
Maintain accurate application inventories, testing records, and reporting across multiple testing cycles.
Requirements Do You Bring Proven Success in IT Project Management and Cloud Disaster Recovery Coordination?
3-5 years of relevant experience in IT project management, technical project coordination, disaster recovery, infrastructure operations, or technology governance.
Practical understanding of cloud infrastructure, disaster recovery processes, application recovery testing, and business continuity principles.
