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Cloud Disaster Recovery Program Manager 3638404
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Be Part Of A High-Performing Team:

Join the technology organization supporting a major global financial institution known for disciplined risk management, operational stability, and highly regulated enterprise systems. This team partners across application development, cloud engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business continuity to strengthen technology resilience. The environment is collaborative, governance-focused, and designed for professionals who can coordinate complex recovery initiatives while communicating effectively with both technical teams and senior leadership.

What's In Store For You:

  • Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099)
  • A 12-month consulting engagement supporting an enterprise cloud resilience program.
  • Hybrid work arrangement in Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • Exposure to cloud recovery testing, operational resilience, regulatory readiness, and executive-level governance.
  • Opportunity to coordinate disaster recovery exercises across a broad portfolio of business-critical applications.

How You Will Make An Impact:

  • Lead the planning, coordination, execution, and governance of disaster recovery testing for multiple cloud-hosted applications.
  • Partner with application owners, cloud engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, business continuity, and business stakeholders to define recovery scenarios and testing objectives.
  • Develop integrated project plans, testing schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and remediation activities.
  • Facilitate planning sessions, readiness reviews, live test bridges, post-test reviews, and governance meetings.
  • Coordinate recovery validation and confirm that established recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, and resiliency standards are achieved.
  • Track testing compliance, evidence collection, documentation quality, corrective actions, and regulatory-readiness requirements.
  • Prepare clear status reports, dashboards, risk summaries, and recovery results for senior management and executive stakeholders.
  • Resolve scheduling conflicts, resource constraints, application dependencies, and cross-functional testing issues.
  • Support improvements in recovery automation, testing standards, cloud resilience, and program governance.
  • Maintain accurate application inventories and testing metrics across multiple recovery cycles.

Do you bring proven success in cloud disaster recovery program management?

  • At least 3–5 years of experience in IT project management, technical program management, disaster recovery, technology resilience, infrastructure operations, or technology governance.
  • Practical knowledge of cloud platforms, application recovery testing, disaster recovery principles, business continuity, and operational resilience.
  • Experience coordinating disaster recovery or resilience testing across multiple applications and technical teams.
  • Ability to manage concurrent workstreams, schedules, dependencies, risks, issues, and remediation plans in a complex enterprise environment.
  • Experience developing project plans, status reports, executive presentations, risk artifacts, governance documentation, and testing evidence.
  • Working knowledge of recovery time objectives, recovery point objectives, failover, recovery validation, and resiliency standards.
  • Proficiency with tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, ServiceNow, and SharePoint.
  • Strong facilitation, organization, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
  • Experience in financial services, banking, another regulated industry, or a large enterprise technology organization is preferred.
  • PMP, Agile, Scrum, ITIL, business continuity, disaster recovery, or related certification is preferred.
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