Job Description

Be Part Of A High-Performing Team Join a technology organization supporting a global financial services environment where operational resilience, infrastructure reliability, and regulatory compliance are essential to business continuity. This team works across cloud engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure operations, and application management to strengthen technology recovery capabilities and maintain critical business services. As a Cloud Disaster Recovery Project Manager, you will coordinate enterprise-wide disaster recovery testing initiatives, working with technical and business stakeholders to ensure cloud-hosted applications can meet established recovery objectives. This opportunity is ideal for a project management professional who understands cloud infrastructure, technology resilience, and the governance required to execute complex recovery testing programs. What's In Store For You Location: Charlotte, NC Work Arrangement: Hybrid – Combination of onsite and remote work; onsite frequency to be confirmed. Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099). Contract Duration: 12 months. Collaborate with cloud engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and business continuity professionals. Gain exposure to enterprise technology resilience initiatives within a highly regulated financial services environment. Coordinate recovery testing across a broad portfolio of cloud-hosted applications. Contribute to improvements in disaster recovery readiness, testing governance, and operational resilience. How You Will Make An Impact Lead the planning, scheduling, and coordination of disaster recovery testing across multiple cloud-based applications. Work with application owners, cloud engineers, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity specialists, and business continuity stakeholders to establish recovery testing requirements and execution plans. Develop and maintain project schedules, testing calendars, milestones, dependencies, risk registers, and remediation tracking. Facilitate disaster recovery planning sessions, readiness assessments, test execution meetings, and post-test reviews. Coordinate application recovery validation activities against established Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs). Monitor testing progress, document recovery outcomes, and ensure supporting evidence meets internal governance and regulatory expectations. Identify scheduling conflicts, technical dependencies, resource constraints, and operational risks that could affect recovery exercises. Prepare dashboards, executive status reports, testing metrics, and governance updates to communicate program health and outstanding issues. Coordinate corrective actions and remediation efforts following recovery testing. Support initiatives to improve cloud recovery processes, testing consistency, operational resilience, and recovery automation. Maintain accurate application inventories, testing records, and reporting across multiple testing cycles. Requirements Do You Bring Proven Success in IT Project Management and Cloud Disaster Recovery Coordination? 3–5 years of relevant experience in IT project management, technical project coordination, disaster recovery, infrastructure operations, or technology governance. Practical understanding of cloud infrastructure, disaster recovery processes, application recovery testing, and business continuity principles. Experience coordinating technical testing activities involving multiple applications, infrastructure components, and cross-functional teams. Familiarity with RTO, RPO, recovery validation, and operational resilience requirements. Proven ability to maintain project plans, integrated schedules, risk registers, issue logs, and executive reporting. Experience managing multiple concurrent projects, technical dependencies, and stakeholder priorities. Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, ServiceNow, or SharePoint. Strong communication, organizational, facilitation, and problem-solving skills. Ability to translate technical recovery issues into clear project updates and actionable next steps. Experience supporting technology initiatives within financial services, regulated industries, or large enterprise environments is preferred. Familiarity with technology governance, audit evidence, and regulatory readiness processes is beneficial. PMP, Agile, Scrum, ITIL, or business continuity-related certifications are preferred.