Data Recovery Planner

The work runs through assessing risks, designing backup and recovery strategies, documenting plans, and testing them so they actually work when needed. You coordinate across IT, security, and the business. An untested plan is a plan that fails, so much of the job is drilling for disasters that may never come, and the value shows up only in the crisis you're ready for.

What surprises people is how much is documentation, coordination, and persuasion — getting the organization to invest in something it hopes never to use. Recovery objectives, costs, and testing demand constant diligence, and complacency is the real enemy. Environments range from on-premises to cloud to hybrid, each with its own failure modes.

It fits someone methodical, thorough, and good at imagining failure. If you want visible, fast-moving work, planning for hypotheticals may feel abstract. But if there's deep satisfaction in being the reason a disaster becomes a recoverable inconvenience, the work tends to be quietly vital, every plan you never have to use.