Resiliency and Continuity Specialist

IntraEdge

Hyderabad, India

5-7 Years

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Job Description

Job Title: Resiliency and Continuity Specialist

Experience: 5+ Years

Location: Hyderabad

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Resiliency and Continuity Specialist to support enterprise technology resilience initiatives and ensure cloud-hosted applications and platforms maintain high levels of availability, recoverability, and operational readiness.

This role serves as a subject matter expert in technology resilience, disaster recovery, and operational continuity. The ideal candidate will work closely with engineering, SRE, cloud infrastructure, application, and governance teams to coordinate resilience testing, validate recovery capabilities, review recovery plans, and ensure compliance with organizational resiliency standards.

The successful candidate will play a critical role in strengthening enterprise recovery capabilities through resilience exercises, chaos testing, audit-ready documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Resilience Testing & Recovery Validation

Coordinate, plan, and support execution of cloud resilience and disaster recovery exercises across enterprise applications and platforms.
Conduct both in-region and cross-region resilience testing to validate system recovery capabilities.
Ensure recovery testing aligns with defined Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to develop meaningful resilience and chaos engineering scenarios.
Validate application recoverability, service continuity, and infrastructure resilience through structured testing exercises.

System Recovery Plan (SRP) Governance

Review and validate System Recovery Plans (SRPs) to ensure completeness, accuracy, and operational readiness.
Verify recovery procedures, dependencies, sequencing, ownership, and execution timelines.
Ensure adherence to organizational resiliency frameworks, templates, and standards.
Identify gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities within recovery documentation.
Drive remediation efforts to improve recovery preparedness.

Resilience Exercise Management

Coordinate all phases of resilience exercises, including:
Planning
Scheduling
Stakeholder communication
Execution oversight
Post-exercise reviews
Ensure pre-test documentation includes:
Scope
Success criteria
Recovery steps
Roles and responsibilities
Dependency mapping
Track and document exercise outcomes, deviations, and lessons learned.
Facilitate post-mortem reviews and continuous improvement activities.

Evidence Validation & Audit Readiness

Review resilience testing evidence packages for completeness and compliance.
Ensure evidence:
Is properly timestamped and serialized
Maps to documented recovery steps
Demonstrates successful recovery outcomes
Supports audit and regulatory requirements
Validate recovery metrics, execution results, and test outcomes.
Maintain audit-ready documentation and support compliance reviews.

Operational Resilience & Governance

Support enterprise resilience programs and governance initiatives.
Assist teams in applying resilience frameworks, assessment methodologies, and operational standards.
Ensure resilience activities align with internal policies and regulatory expectations.
Participate in risk assessments, control reviews, and resilience audits.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner with:
Engineering Teams
SRE Teams
Cloud Operations
Infrastructure Teams
Architecture Teams
Risk & Compliance Teams
Coordinate remediation activities and track closure of identified gaps.
Provide guidance on resilience best practices for cloud deployments and system changes.

Continuous Improvement

Contribute to enhancement of:
Recovery standards
Resilience frameworks
Testing methodologies
Reporting processes
Governance controls
Support resilience maturity initiatives across the organization.

Required Qualifications

Experience

5+ years of experience in:
Technology Resilience
Disaster Recovery
Operational Resilience
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Technology Risk Management
IT Governance
Infrastructure Operations

Cloud & Infrastructure Knowledge

Strong understanding of cloud architecture and resilience principles.
Experience working with cloud platforms such as:
AWS
Azure
GCP
Understanding of:
Regions and Availability Zones
Load Balancing
Auto Scaling
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Backup & Restore Strategies
Replication Mechanisms
Service Dependencies
High Availability Architectures

Resilience & Recovery Expertise

Experience coordinating and executing:
Disaster Recovery (DR) Tests
Business Continuity Exercises
Resilience Testing
Chaos Engineering Simulations
Experience creating and maintaining recovery plans and operational documentation.
Strong understanding of RTO, RPO, and service recovery frameworks.

Monitoring & Observability