Technical Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Specialist (2-Month Contract)

Location: Remote

Duration: 2 Months

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) Specialist for a 2-month remote contract. The successful candidate will assess, develop, and enhance business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities to ensure organizational resilience and recovery readiness.

Key Responsibilities

- Review and assess existing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans.
- Conduct Business Impact Analyses (BIA) and risk assessments.
- Identify gaps, risks, and dependencies across critical systems and business processes.
- Develop and update BCPs, DR plans, recovery procedures, and technical runbooks.
- Define and validate Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
- Coordinate and facilitate disaster recovery testing, tabletop exercises, and recovery simulations.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, security, and business teams to implement recovery strategies.
- Provide recommendations to improve operational resilience and recovery readiness.

Required Qualifications




- 5+ years of experience in Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery, or IT Resilience.
- Strong technical knowledge of IT infrastructure, cloud platforms, networks, servers, databases, and enterprise applications.
- Experience developing and executing BC/DR strategies and recovery testing.
- Solid understanding of backup, failover, replication, and recovery technologies.
- Excellent planning, documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications
- CBCP, MBCI, ISO 22301, ITIL, PMP, CISSP, or similar certifications.
- Experience with Azure, AWS, VMware, Veeam, or related recovery solutions.

Deliverables
- BC/DR assessment and gap analysis.
- Updated business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
- Recovery procedures and technical runbooks.
- DR testing results and recommendations for improved resilience.

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📌 Technical Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Specialist (remote contract) (Ontario)
🏢 Robert Half
📍 Ontario