Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Coordinator

Key Responsibilities

• Perform Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning and risk assessment activities, ensuring alignment with OMES IS continuity policies and statewide resilience objectives.
• Develop and maintain a business-critical Disaster Recovery Program that supports high availability and data integrity for IT systems and services within a 24/7 operational model.
• Cook up cross-functional teams (infrastructure, application support, security, agency SMEs) to develop and maintain disaster recovery/resumption plans and runbooks for critical processes and systems.
• Partner with stakeholders to define Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for business-critical applications and core services, ensuring consistency with DR strategies and platform capabilities.
• Aid in developing IT infrastructure strategies and roadmaps to ensure Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity requirements are embedded into architecture, operations, and system lifecycles.
• Advance operational incident response readiness through resilience planning and continuity-informed response procedures.
• Cook up vendor relationships for Disaster Recovery services and lead planning, coordination, and execution of resilience testing and validation activities.
• Design, coordinate, and execute periodic disaster recovery tests, including tabletop exercises and physical failovers, to validate technical recovery capabilities and overall organizational readiness.
• Provide Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity reports and recommendations to IT leadership, including strategy updates, process improvements, and technology or procedural enhancements.
• Facilitate disaster risk/threat vulnerability assessments and analyze the effectiveness of DR and continuity processes, developing measurable and sustainable improvements.
• Cook with internal and external partners to document supply-chain dependencies for critical infrastructure and develop mitigation strategies for identified risks.
• Maintain the Risk Registry, drive internal risk meetings, identify controls, assign ownership, and track remediation to reduce operational, technical, and continuity-related risks.
• Maintain and steward a centralized repository of OMES DR/BC documentation, including BIA, BCP, DR, and after-action reports detailing identified gaps or completeness concerns.
• Perform daily facility walks to inspect and document the condition of critical infrastructure, including power, cooling, physical security, and environmental systems, ensuring early detection of anomalies and alignment with the Critical Infrastructure Operations Standard.

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in emergency management, business continuity, information technology, public administration, or a related field, plus five years of professional experience in disaster recovery coordination, emergency management, continuity of operations planning, business continuity, or resilience program development;
• or an equivalent combination of education and experience, substituting twelve semester hours of coursework in emergency management, information systems, public administration, or a related field for each year of the required experience, with a maximum substitution of two years.

About OMES

The Office of Management and Enterprise Services provides excellent service, expert guidance and continuous improvement in support of our partners' goals. We are a highly qualified workforce committed to serve those who serve Oklahomans and make government run in the most efficient, innovative manner possible. OMES is an Equal Opportunity Employer.