Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Consultant
Posted Today by CS Solutions, Inc.
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Summary: The Disaster Recovery Manager / Platform Resiliency Lead is responsible for ensuring enterprise digital platforms are resilient and equipped with disaster recovery and reliability controls. This role collaborates with various teams to minimize technology disruptions and enhance recovery objectives through effective planning and testing. The position emphasizes leadership in Business Technology Resilience outcomes and continuous improvement across platform portfolios. The role is remote and requires strong experience in platform reliability and disaster recovery within large-scale environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure compliance with Mars BTR and DR goals and embed platform reliability governance into processes.
- Establish measurable, audit-ready workflows across engineering and platform teams.
- Embed governance into workflows to maintain control while allowing teams to operate efficiently.
- Align development tools and pipelines with Mars standards and secure coding principles.
- Create, maintain, and review Application and Platform Disaster Recovery Plans (A/PDRPs).
- Govern disaster recovery testing execution and validate RTO/RPOs.
- Coordinate with various teams to confirm dependencies and operational readiness during DR events.
- Provide resilience leadership during major incidents and disaster recovery events.
- Translate lessons learned into measurable improvements in platform design and processes.
- Track and report resilience maturity and compliance across platforms.
- Partner with engineering and SRE teams to enhance reliability practices.
- Promote resilience awareness and enablement through guidance and training.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience in platform reliability, disaster recovery, or resilience engineering.
- Proven delivery of resilience or DR programs across multiple platforms.
- Experience in regulated or audit-intensive environments.
- Deep understanding of DR concepts (RTO, RPO, backup strategies).
- Familiarity with cloud and SaaS recovery patterns.
- Ability to communicate technical resilience topics to nontechnical stakeholders.
- Influences without direct authority and aligns diverse teams.
- Strong documentation and governance discipline.
- Comfortable in high-pressure incident or recovery scenarios.
Salary (Rate): £56.00 hourly
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job Title: Disaster Recovery Manager / Platform Resiliency Lead
Location: Remote
Duration: 6+ Months
Job Description
The Platform Resiliency Lead is accountable for ensuring that enterprise digital platforms are designed, implemented, tested, and operated with appropriate resilience, disaster recovery, and reliability controls aligned to business criticality. The role partners closely with Platform Owners, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Business Continuity teams to reduce the risk and impact of technology disruptions and to ensure recovery objectives are achievable and tested.
This role plays a key leadership position in driving Business Technology Resilience (BTR) outcomes, including application impact assessments, disaster recovery planning, testing, and continuous improvement across platform portfolios. Ensures end to end testing of supported applications.
Job responsibilities
- Ensure compliance with Mars BTR and DR goals and that platform reliability governance is embedded into dev and deploy processes and operating model, and continuously improve it.
- Ensure working are consistent, measurable, audit-ready, and friction-minimized across engineering and platform/tooling teams to support system availability required by business at minimal cost and maximum output.
- Help establish "guardrails not gates" by embedding governance into all workflows so teams can move at speed while maintaining strong control posture when complying with Mars and industry frameworks.
- Ensure development tools and pipelines align to Mars standards and secure coding/shift-left principles. Disaster Recovery & Preparedness
- Ensure Application and Platform Disaster Recovery Plans (A/PDRPs) are created, maintained, and reviewed in line with platform criticality and policy expectations.
- Govern execution of disaster recovery testing, including scenario-based exercises and validation of achieved RTO/RPOs, with clear evidence capture and remediation tracking.
- Coordinate with Infrastructure, Network, Security, and Platform teams to confirm dependencies, recovery sequencing, and operational readiness during DR events.
- Incident & Recovery Leadership
- Provide resilience leadership during major incidents and disaster recovery events, supporting command-and-control execution and decisionmaking.
- Ensure lessons learned from incidents, DR tests, and near misses are translated into measurable improvements in platform design, tooling, and processes.
- Continuous Improvement & Enablement
- Track and report resilience maturity, adherence, and gaps across platforms using standardised metrics and compliance reporting.
- Partner with engineering and SRE teams to strengthen reliability practices such as observability, failover, backup, and controlled recovery mechanisms.
- Promote resilience awareness and enablement across platform and delivery teams through guidance, templates, and training.
Key Stakeholders
- Platform & Product Owners
- Infrastructure, Cloud, Network, and Security teams
- Business Continuity Management (BCM)
- Enterprise Architecture and Risk Management
- Internal Audit and External Assurance Partners
Required Experience & Skills
Experience
- Strong experience in platform reliability, disaster recovery, or resilience engineering within large-scale digital or cloud environments.
- Proven delivery of resilience or DR programs across multiple platforms or applications with differing criticality.
- Experience operating in regulated or audit-intensive environments.
Technical & Functional Skills
- Deep understanding of DR concepts (RTO, RPO, backup strategies, recovery sequencing).
- Familiarity with cloud and SaaS recovery patterns and dependency management.
- Ability to translate technical resilience topics into clear risk, impact, and investment discussions for nontechnical stakeholders.
Leadership & Communication
- Influences without direct authority; able to align diverse teams around resilience outcomes.
- Strong documentation and governance discipline suitable for audit and regulatory scrutiny.
- Comfortable operating in highpressure incident or recovery scenarios.
Success Measures
- Platforms meet or exceed defined resilience and recovery objectives.
- Disaster recovery plans are complete, tested, and evidenced for critical platforms.
- Reduction in unmanaged resilience risks and audit findings.
- Improved recovery readiness and confidence across platform delivery teams.
With Regards,
Dinesh B
CS Solutions, Inc
7525 Mitchell Road, Suite 106, Eden Prairie, MN 55344
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