Senior Cybersecurity Disaster Recovery, Contingency Planning SME

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🕒 October 19

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $140k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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📋 Description

• Lead and manage nationwide BIA, DRP, ISCP, and contingency planning initiatives from program planning and rollout through implementation, quality assurance, approval, and final delivery. • Lead multiple geographically dispersed and cross-functional teams by establishing priorities, coordinating resources, monitoring progress, and ensuring timely completion of deliverables. • Develop and execute national implementation and rollout strategies, including methodologies, templates, procedures, schedules, training, communications, milestones, and completion criteria. • Coordinate with facility leadership, business owners, system owners, IT personnel, cybersecurity teams, COOP personnel, and executive stakeholders. • Track nationwide BIA and DRP completion, identify gaps and risks, resolve issues, and report program status to senior leadership. • Lead development, review, and maintenance of BPA, BIA, DRP, ISCP, and continuity documentation. • Analyze BIA results to identify critical functions, systems, dependencies, recovery priorities, RTOs, RPOs, MTD, and enterprise-wide risks. • Serve as senior cybersecurity SME for DRCP and continuity activities, addressing cybersecurity risks, system dependencies, data protection, access controls, and critical technology requirements. • Develop and maintain cybersecurity and DRCP policies, SOPs, procedures, standards, templates, and governance documentation. • Apply NIST SP 800-34, NIST SP 800-37, NIST SP 800-53, NIST IR 8286D, and NIST IR 8179. • Plan, facilitate, and document tabletop exercises, continuity tests, disaster recovery exercises, and plan reviews, including corrective actions and remediation. • Perform quality assurance and technical reviews; support audits, assessments, compliance reviews, evidence collection, findings remediation, and executive reporting. • Develop technical reports, executive briefings, policy memoranda, status reports, meeting materials, and other communications. • Maintain program schedules, repositories, inventories, dashboards, and tools supporting recurring DRCP reviews, exercises, testing, and program activities.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in cybersecurity, information security, disaster recovery, business continuity, contingency planning, risk management, or a related field. • Significant cybersecurity experience applying cybersecurity principles to disaster recovery, contingency planning, business continuity, and organizational resilience. • Experience leading and managing multiple cross-functional and/or geographically dispersed teams. • Experience leading large-scale, multi-site, regional, or nationwide BIA, DRP, ISCP, or contingency planning programs. • Hands-on experience developing, implementing, reviewing, and finalizing BPA, BIA, DRP, ISCP, and related continuity documentation. • Ability to manage complex programs from initial planning and rollout through final submission, quality assurance, approval, and completion. • Strong working knowledge of NIST SP 800-34, NIST SP 800-37, NIST SP 800-53, NIST IR 8286D, and NIST IR 8179. • Experience with cybersecurity, disaster recovery, contingency planning, business continuity, COOP, risk management, and organizational resilience. • Experience developing and implementing cybersecurity and DRCP policies, SOPs, procedures, standards, templates, and governance documentation. • Experience conducting or facilitating tabletop exercises, contingency and continuity tests, disaster recovery exercises, plan reviews, and corrective-action activities. • Experience supporting audits, assessments, compliance reviews, evidence collection, and remediation of findings. • Strong technical writing, editing, analytical, organizational, facilitation, and communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex cybersecurity and continuity concepts to technical and executive audiences. • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Cybersecurity, Information Assurance, Information Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business Continuity, Emergency Management, Risk Management, Business Administration, Technical Communication, or a related technical or management discipline. • Preferred: experience supporting HHS, IHS, or another U.S. federal agency; nationwide or geographically dispersed federal programs; NIST RMF, NIST CSF 2.0, FISMA, federal continuity requirements, and NIST IR 8286; relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CBCP, CBCI, or PMP; advanced Microsoft Office proficiency; master’s degree.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus telehealth services and a confidential Employee Assistance Program. • Paid time off starting at 3.5 weeks annually, increasing with tenure, plus 11 paid holidays. • 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match of up to 4% of eligible compensation after six months of employment. • Company-paid basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, and short- and long-term disability insurance. • Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs, each offering up to $1,500 annually for eligible employees after six months of service, subject to approval.

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