Senior Cybersecurity Disaster Recovery, Contingency Planning SME

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland.

📋 Description

• Oversee and direct nationwide initiatives for BIA, DRP, ISCP, and contingency planning, from program planning and rollout to implementation, quality assurance, approval, and final delivery.

• Manage multiple cross-functional teams spread across various locations by setting priorities, coordinating resources, monitoring progress, and ensuring on-time delivery of project outcomes.

• Create and implement national strategies for rollout, including methodologies, templates, procedures, schedules, training programs, communications, milestones, and completion criteria.

• Collaborate with facility leadership, business owners, system owners, IT teams, cybersecurity personnel, COOP staff, and executive stakeholders.

• Monitor nationwide completion of BIA and DRP, identify risks and gaps, resolve issues, and provide status updates and escalations to senior management.

• Lead the development, review, and upkeep of BPA, BIA, DRP, ISCP, and other continuity documentation.

• Analyze BIA outcomes to pinpoint critical functions, systems, dependencies, recovery priorities, RTOs, RPOs, MTD, and enterprise-wide risks.

• Act as a senior cybersecurity subject matter expert for DRCP and continuity activities, managing cybersecurity risks, system dependencies, data protection, access controls, and essential technology requirements.

• Create and maintain cybersecurity and DRCP policies, SOPs, procedures, standards, templates, and governance documents.

• Utilize NIST standards in contingency planning, business impact analysis, system criticality, risk management, and recovery operations.

• Organize, facilitate, and document tabletop exercises, continuity tests, disaster recovery drills, and plan reviews, including follow-up on corrective actions until resolution.

• Conduct quality assurance and technical evaluations; assist with audits, assessments, compliance reviews, evidence gathering, remediation of findings, and executive reporting.

• Produce technical reports, executive summaries, policy memoranda, status updates, meeting materials, and various communications.

• Maintain program schedules, repositories, inventories, dashboards, and tools that support ongoing DRCP reviews, exercises, testing, and program activities.

• RELI Group collaborates with government agencies to tackle complex challenges, enhance public health, fortify national security, and improve government services.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in cybersecurity, information security, disaster recovery, business continuity, contingency planning, risk management, or a related discipline.

• Extensive experience in cybersecurity applying principles to disaster recovery, contingency planning, business continuity, and organizational resilience.

• Proven experience in leading and managing multiple cross-functional and/or geographically diverse teams.

• Demonstrated experience in managing large-scale, multi-site, regional, or nationwide BIA, DRP, ISCP, or contingency planning programs.

• Practical experience in developing, implementing, reviewing, and finalizing BPA, BIA, DRP, ISCP, and related continuity documentation.

• Experience in managing complex programs from initial planning and rollout through to final submission, quality assurance, approval, and project completion.

• Strong familiarity with NIST SP 800-34, NIST SP 800-37, NIST SP 800-53, NIST IR 8286D, and NIST IR 8179.

• Background in cybersecurity, disaster recovery, contingency planning, business continuity, COOP, risk management, and organizational resilience.

• Experience in developing and implementing cybersecurity and DRCP policies, SOPs, procedures, standards, templates, and governance documentation.

• Experience in conducting or facilitating tabletop exercises, contingency and continuity tests, disaster recovery drills, plan reviews, and corrective-action initiatives.

• Experience in supporting audits, assessments, compliance reviews, evidence collection, and remediation efforts.

• Excellent technical writing, editing, analytical, organizational, facilitation, and communication skills.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant technical or management field.

• Preferred: relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CBCP, CBCI, PMP, or equivalent.

• Preferred: advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office and program tracking, analysis, and reporting tools.

• Preferred: a master’s degree in a relevant field.

🏝️ Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package provided by RELI Group.

• An Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.

• HUBZone candidates are encouraged to apply.