IT Resiliency Project Manager / Disaster Recovery Lead

Location: Remote (Preference for candidates located in Connecticut or the Northeast)

Duration: Initial 6-Month Contract with Strong Extension Potential

Employment Type: Contract (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

Requirements

• 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

Skills

• 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

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance
• Eligibility to enroll in company 401(k) plan