Senior Disaster Recovery Specialist

Days tend to mix runbook maintenance, exercise leadership, cross-team coordination on infrastructure changes, and the operational rhythm of keeping DR capability current. You might be reviewing a DR plan with an application owner Monday, leading a failover exercise Tuesday, and updating recovery procedures Thursday. The work tends to live in DR platforms, infrastructure runbooks, and the relationships with infrastructure and application teams.

The harder part is often maintaining program discipline between events. DR attention spikes after a near-miss and fades during quiet stretches; the senior specialist tends to keep the rigor alive. Persistent advocacy for testing investment is a daily skill. Variance across employers is real — financial services and healthcare run frequent rigorous tests; others depend on the specialist's persistence. Tabletop versus live failover are very different exercises.

People who tend to thrive here are operationally minded, calm under pressure, and patient with the slow institutional rhythm of recovery work. They tend to enjoy the rare moment when a tested plan actually gets used and works. The trade-off can be the on-call demands during incidents — disasters don't honor business hours, and DR is often called first.