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
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