Senior Cybersecurity Disaster Recovery, Contingency Planning SME

Job 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 and manage 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 provide status reporting and escalation to senior leadership
• Lead development, review, and maintenance of BPA, BIA, DRP, ISCP, and related 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 standards to contingency planning, business impact, system criticality, risk management, and recovery activities
• Plan, facilitate, and document tabletop exercises, continuity tests, disaster recovery exercises, and plan reviews, including corrective actions through closure
• 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
• RELI Group partners with government agencies to solve complex challenges, improve public health, strengthen national security, and improve government services

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
• Experience managing 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
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant technical or management discipline
• Preferred: relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CBCP, CBCI, PMP, or equivalent
• Preferred: advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office and program tracking, analysis, and reporting tools
• Preferred: master’s degree in a relevant discipline

Benefits:

• Additional benefits package offered by RELI Group
• Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer
• HUBZone candidates are encouraged to apply