Senior Program Manager, Disaster Recovery
Lead Twilio's enterprise Disaster Recovery program by developing plans, conducting tests and audits, integrating risks, and serving as the technical authority during live disruptions to ensure resilient recovery of critical systems. Requires CBCP certification, cloud infrastructure expertise, and 7+ years of DR program management experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead the annual plan development, review, and executive sign-off lifecycle for critical product and non-product systems.
- Actively integrate disaster recovery vulnerabilities, Service Readiness Framework (SRF) findings, and exercise gaps into existing risk frameworks to quantify, score, and systematically drive down operational risk across the company.
- Author clear program updates, annual compliance metrics, and formal responses to internal and external audit findings.
- Partner across the organization to support the execution of unified Gamedays and quarterly technical tests to ensure critical applications fail over predictably.
- Benchmark and audit actual technical execution against strict Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).
- Convert static, document-heavy continuity playbooks into clean, runnable-style procedures to optimize recovery coordination.
- Review and audit the independent business continuity and disaster recovery plans of high-exposure third-party SaaS vendors to proactively isolate and eliminate downstream single points of failure (SPOFs).
- Verify fallback processing environments, ensuring that automated remediation workflows are fully provisioned and mapped before disruptions occur.
- Serve as the technical disaster recovery authority during active live disruptions, seamlessly synchronizing recovery activities with existing tactical response teams.
Qualifications
Required:
- Active Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) designation.
- Practical familiarity with cloud infrastructure platforms (AWS console operations), containerization ecosystems, database synchronization architectures, and centralized configuration directories.
- Proven experience leading technical response or recovery workflows during high-severity live outages alongside incident management teams.
- Exceptional verbal and written communications skills; ability to distill highly dense technical single points of failure (SPOFs) into clear, actionable financial and engineering risk metrics for senior security leadership.
Desired:
- 7+ years of dedicated technical Disaster Recovery program management experience in a highly scalable, cloud-native enterprise environment.
Skills
Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Cbcp, AWS, Cloud Infrastructure, Containerization, Database Synchronization, Incident Management, Rto, Rpo, Risk Management, Gamedays, Audit
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