Disaster Recovery (DR) Test Coordinator and Exercise Lead

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Disaster Recovery (DR) Test Coordinator and Exercise Lead to plan, manage, and document enterprise-wide DR and Continuity of Operations (COOP) exercises across a large federal and DoD-aligned IT environment. This role ensures full compliance with DoD, NIST, and federal testing requirements while validating system recoverability, operational resilience, and continuity readiness. 

The DR Test Coordinator and Exercise Lead will conduct bi-annual DR/COOP exercises, validate RTO/RPO requirements, coordinate cross-team participation, and document all results, findings, and corrective actions. This position contributes directly to enterprise mission assurance by ensuring systems and teams are prepared for failover events. 

This position is fully remote. 

Duties & Responsibilities

The DR Test Coordinator and Exercise Lead will: 

• Plan, schedule, and execute bi-annual DR and COOP exercises for enterprise applications, infrastructure, databases, and cloud systems. 

• Ensure exercises comply with NIST, DoD, and federal continuity testing requirements. 

• Develop exercise agendas, scenarios, evaluation criteria, and recovery validation steps. 

• Coordinate participation across engineering, cloud, database, security, and service desk teams. 

• Validate Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for critical systems. 

• Document test results, performance metrics, observed gaps, and recovery timelines. 

• Prepare After-Action Reports (AARs), Corrective Action Plans (CAPs), and exercise summary briefings. 

• Track the status of remediation activities and ensure closure of identified issues. 

• Maintain DR testing documentation, procedures, runbooks, and compliance artifacts. 

• Conduct readiness assessments to support DR strategy updates and COOP program improvements. 

• Coordinate with continuity, cybersecurity, and compliance teams to ensure alignment with enterprise resilience requirements. 

Qualifications

Clearance Requirement 

Must hold an active Top Secret clearance, supported by a Tier 5 background investigation. 

Education (Required) 

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Risk Management, or a related field. 

Experience (Required) 

• Minimum 6 years of experience in disaster recovery, continuity testing, IT operations, or risk management. 

• Experience planning and executing DR/COOP exercises in enterprise IT environments. 

• Experience validating RTO/RPO requirements and assessing recovery performance. 

• Experience documenting exercise outcomes, AARs, CAPs, and compliance materials. 

• Experience coordinating across engineering, cybersecurity, and operations teams. 

Technical Knowledge (Required) 

• Strong understanding of DR/COOP frameworks, continuity readiness processes, and NIST/DoD testing requirements. 

• Knowledge of systems recovery procedures, failover operations, and resilience planning. 

• Familiarity with ITIL v4 processes, especially incident, problem, and change management alignment with continuity events. 

• Understanding of cloud-hosted, network, and database recovery dependencies. 

Technical Knowledge (Preferred) 

• Experience supporting IL5, DoD, or federal IT mission environments. 

• Familiarity with DR automation tools, orchestration platforms, or test management software. 

Certifications 

Required: 

• CompTIA Security+ 

• ITIL v4 Foundation 

Preferred: 

• Business continuity or DR-related certifications (e.g., CBCP) 

• Project Management Professional (PMP) 

Skills 

• Strong coordination, facilitation, and communication skills for cross-team exercises. 

• Excellent analytical abilities for identifying gaps and evaluating DR performance. 

• Strong documentation skills for AARs, CAPs, and exercise summaries. 

• Ability to manage multiple testing cycles and readiness activities. 

• High attention to detail and commitment to mission resilience. 

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
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