SmartSuite for the IT Disaster Recovery Lead
The IT Disaster Recovery Lead owns the recovery of technology services after a disruption: recovery strategies, DR plans, recovery time and point objectives, failover testing and the link between IT recovery and business continuity plans.
What you own
- Own IT disaster recovery plans and recovery strategies
- Set and validate RTOs and RPOs with business continuity
- Plan and run DR tests and failover exercises
- Maintain the inventory of critical systems and dependencies
- Coordinate recovery during IT incidents and disasters
- Track DR test findings and remediation
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Operational resilience. Holds DR plans, RTO/RPO targets and test schedules linked to the business services they support.
Issues and actions. Tracks DR test findings and remediation to closure.
Reporting. Reports recovery readiness against targets to resilience and IT leadership.
Industry reference
ISO/IEC 27031 and NIST SP 800-34 Rev. 1 define ICT readiness and contingency planning; ITIL 4's service continuity management practice and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A 5.30 require it as part of service and security management; ISO 22301 ties IT recovery to business impact.
Regulators test recovery. The FFIEC BCM booklet and DORA require backup policies and tested recovery for financial entities; the HIPAA Security Rule requires a contingency plan with data backup, disaster recovery and testing (45 CFR 164.308(a)(7)); federal systems follow NIST SP 800-53 contingency controls; technology providers evidence recovery for SOC 2 availability commitments.
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