BCDR Resilience Specialist

Location: Remote

Contract Duration: 6 months (with possibility of extension)

Contract details: B2B/ PFA or SRL

Role Overview

We are looking for a BCDR Resilience Specialist to support the assessment, design, and assurance of business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities for solution platforms, including AI-enabled services.

The role ensures that solutions demonstrate resilience under failure scenarios and meet governance, audit, and regulatory expectations prior to production deployment.

Key Responsibilities

Resilience & Availability Assurance

• Assess and provide assurance that availability and resilience requirements are met across solution platforms.

• Validate RTO/RPO definitions and ensure alignment with business criticality and service tiering.

• Support solution teams in defining and validating appropriate recovery strategies.

Failure Analysis & Risk Reduction

• Identify and address single points of failure (SPOFs) across:

  • application and platform components

  • AI agents and orchestration layers

  • data dependencies

  • third-party services

• Assess architectural resilience and recommend mitigation strategies to improve fault tolerance and recovery.

BC/DR Planning & Runbooks

• Review and ensure BC/DR plans and operational runbooks are fit for purpose.

• Validate recovery procedures, including AI-specific failure modes, model dependencies, and recovery actions.

• Support and participate in resilience testing, tabletop exercises, and recovery simulations.

Governance, Audit & Evidence

• Provide credible resilience evidence to support:

  • governance approvals

  • audit readiness

  • regulatory requirements

• Ensure resilience controls and recovery capabilities are documented, traceable, and defensible prior to production release.

Required Skills & Experience

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

• Proven experience in BCDR, resilience engineering, or service continuity roles

• Strong understanding of:

  • business impact analysis (BIA)

  • RTO / RPO definitions

  • high availability and disaster recovery strategies

• Experience validating BC/DR readiness for production environments

Architecture & Platform Awareness

• Ability to assess end-to-end solution architectures, including:

  • application and platform layers

  • data flows and dependencies

  • third-party integrations

• Understanding of modern, distributed, and cloud-native architectures

AI & Emerging Technology Resilience

• Awareness of AI-specific failure modes, such as:

  • model availability and dependency failures

  • orchestration and pipeline failures

  • data drift or data dependency issues

• Ability to assess recovery strategies for AI-enabled components

Governance & Communication

• Experience producing decision-ready documentation for governance, audit, and regulatory stakeholders

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate resilience risks and recovery capabilities clearly