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HybridAt Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, we are committed to paving the way for everyone to achieve their healthiest life. We are looking for dedicated and motivated individuals who share our vision of transforming healthcare. As a Blue Cross associate, you are joining a culture that is built on values of succeeding together, finding a better way, and doing the right thing. If you are ready to make a difference, join us.
The Impact You Will Have
The Disaster Recovery Consultant is responsible for developing, maintaining, testing, and continuously improving disaster recovery capabilities across the organization's cloud, hybrid, SaaS and on-premise technology environments. This role serves as a disaster recovery subject matter expert with a primary focus on cloud recovery. The consultant partners with application owners, cloud engineering teams, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity, vendors, and business stakeholders to design, validate, and enhance recovery capabilities that ensure critical systems can be restored within established recovery objectives. The successful candidate will independently lead disaster recovery planning, testing, analysis, and remediation activities with minimal supervision. This includes evaluating recovery strategies, validating recovery capabilities through testing, identifying recovery gaps and dependencies – including integrations with SaaS - and driving continuous improvement across the disaster recovery program. This position is intended for an experienced continuity professional with 3 or more years of relevant experience. Participation in disaster recovery activities alone is not sufficient. This is not an entry-level role. Candidates must possess direct, hands-on disaster recovery experience and be able to perform the core responsibilities of the position upon hire. Successful candidates will demonstrate a practitioner’s history of owning disaster recovery deliverables, leading recovery testing efforts, evaluating recovery outcomes, and implementing measurable improvements to organizational recovery capabilities.
What You’ll Do
- Develop, maintain, and continuously improve recovery plans with stakeholders, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with program standards and requirements.
- Identify risks, dependencies, capability gaps, single points of failure, and opportunities to improve resilience posture.
- Partner with stakeholders to identify critical needs and dependencies to establish recovery requirements, objectives, and strategies that support organizational needs.
- Lead exercises, testing, and validation activities; evaluate results, identify gaps and improvement opportunities, and drive corrective actions through completion.
- Monitor program compliance, metrics, reporting, milestones, and action plans.
- Provide consultation and guidance to stakeholders, leadership, and vendors regarding planning requirements, practices, and program standards.
How You’ll Do It
- Plan, coordinate, facilitate, and document disaster recovery exercises, tabletop exercises, failover tests, and recovery validations. Define test objectives, success criteria, participant responsibilities, and evidence requirements.
- Maintain documentation, repositories, inventories, reporting, and supporting materials required for governance, audit, risk, regulatory, and compliance activities.
- Support risk identification activities by assessing potential disruptions that could impact critical business functions or third-party providers.
- Identify and implement improvements to program processes, testing methodologies, reporting, and governance.
- Support incident, crisis, and recovery activities by coordinating activation, response, documentation, and follow-up.
- Provide on-call support to events and activations as required.
- Performs additional responsibilities consistent with the scope and level of the role, as assigned.
Required Skills & Experience
- 3+ years of related Enterprise Resilience professional experience.
- Bachelor’s degree; in lieu of a degree, an additional two years of relevant experience beyond the qualifications listed above may be accepted.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- DRII or BCI certification
- Familiarity with resilience management.
- Experience designing disaster recovery plans in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated industry.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of resilience and disaster recovery best practices, standards and frameworks.
- Proven ability to guide team towards shared goals without relying on positional authority.
- Experience in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, insurance, financial services, or government.
- Knowledge of industry standards and frameworks including ISO 22301, NIST, FEMA, or operational resilience guidance. Knowledge of information security, cybersecurity practices, and risk management principles.
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Role Designation
Hybrid
Anchored in Connection
Our hybrid approach is designed to balance flexibility with meaningful in-person connection and collaboration. We come together in the office two days each week – most teams designate at least one anchor day to ensure team interaction. These in-person moments foster relationships, creativity, and alignment. The rest of the week you are empowered to work remote.
Compensation and Benefits:
Pay Range: $90,800.00 - $120,300.00 - $149,800.00 Annual
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position, including skills, ability, and knowledge the selected individual is bringing to the specific job.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package which may include:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- 401k
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)
- And more
At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, we are committed to paving the way for everyone to achieve their healthiest life. Blue Cross of Minnesota is an Equal Opportunity Employer and maintains an Affirmative Action plan, as required by Minnesota law applicable to state contractors. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on any legally protected characteristic.
Individuals with a disability who need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply, please contact us at: talent.acquisition@bluecrossmn.com.
Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® of Minnesota and Blue Plus® are nonprofit independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
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Save Job
HybridAt Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, we are committed to paving the way for everyone to achieve their healthiest life. We are looking for dedicated and motivated individuals who share our vision of transforming healthcare. As a Blue Cross associate, you are joining a culture that is built on values of succeeding together, finding a better way, and doing the right thing. If you are ready to make a difference, join us.
The Impact You Will Have
The Disaster Recovery Consultant is responsible for developing, maintaining, testing, and continuously improving disaster recovery capabilities across the organization's cloud, hybrid, SaaS and on-premise technology environments. This role serves as a disaster recovery subject matter expert with a primary focus on cloud recovery. The consultant partners with application owners, cloud engineering teams, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity, vendors, and business stakeholders to design, validate, and enhance recovery capabilities that ensure critical systems can be restored within established recovery objectives. The successful candidate will independently lead disaster recovery planning, testing, analysis, and remediation activities with minimal supervision. This includes evaluating recovery strategies, validating recovery capabilities through testing, identifying recovery gaps and dependencies – including integrations with SaaS - and driving continuous improvement across the disaster recovery program. This position is intended for an experienced continuity professional with 3 or more years of relevant experience. Participation in disaster recovery activities alone is not sufficient. This is not an entry-level role. Candidates must possess direct, hands-on disaster recovery experience and be able to perform the core responsibilities of the position upon hire. Successful candidates will demonstrate a practitioner’s history of owning disaster recovery deliverables, leading recovery testing efforts, evaluating recovery outcomes, and implementing measurable improvements to organizational recovery capabilities.
What You’ll Do
- Develop, maintain, and continuously improve recovery plans with stakeholders, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with program standards and requirements.
- Identify risks, dependencies, capability gaps, single points of failure, and opportunities to improve resilience posture.
- Partner with stakeholders to identify critical needs and dependencies to establish recovery requirements, objectives, and strategies that support organizational needs.
- Lead exercises, testing, and validation activities; evaluate results, identify gaps and improvement opportunities, and drive corrective actions through completion.
- Monitor program compliance, metrics, reporting, milestones, and action plans.
- Provide consultation and guidance to stakeholders, leadership, and vendors regarding planning requirements, practices, and program standards.
How You’ll Do It
- Plan, coordinate, facilitate, and document disaster recovery exercises, tabletop exercises, failover tests, and recovery validations. Define test objectives, success criteria, participant responsibilities, and evidence requirements.
- Maintain documentation, repositories, inventories, reporting, and supporting materials required for governance, audit, risk, regulatory, and compliance activities.
- Support risk identification activities by assessing potential disruptions that could impact critical business functions or third-party providers.
- Identify and implement improvements to program processes, testing methodologies, reporting, and governance.
- Support incident, crisis, and recovery activities by coordinating activation, response, documentation, and follow-up.
- Provide on-call support to events and activations as required.
- Performs additional responsibilities consistent with the scope and level of the role, as assigned.
Required Skills & Experience
- 3+ years of related Enterprise Resilience professional experience.
- Bachelor’s degree; in lieu of a degree, an additional two years of relevant experience beyond the qualifications listed above may be accepted.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- DRII or BCI certification
- Familiarity with resilience management.
- Experience designing disaster recovery plans in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated industry.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of resilience and disaster recovery best practices, standards and frameworks.
- Proven ability to guide team towards shared goals without relying on positional authority.
- Experience in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, insurance, financial services, or government.
- Knowledge of industry standards and frameworks including ISO 22301, NIST, FEMA, or operational resilience guidance. Knowledge of information security, cybersecurity practices, and risk management principles.
-
Role Designation
Hybrid
Anchored in Connection
Our hybrid approach is designed to balance flexibility with meaningful in-person connection and collaboration. We come together in the office two days each week – most teams designate at least one anchor day to ensure team interaction. These in-person moments foster relationships, creativity, and alignment. The rest of the week you are empowered to work remote.
Compensation and Benefits:
Pay Range: $90,800.00 - $120,300.00 - $149,800.00 Annual
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position, including skills, ability, and knowledge the selected individual is bringing to the specific job.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package which may include:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- 401k
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)
- And more
At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, we are committed to paving the way for everyone to achieve their healthiest life. Blue Cross of Minnesota is an Equal Opportunity Employer and maintains an Affirmative Action plan, as required by Minnesota law applicable to state contractors. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on any legally protected characteristic.
Individuals with a disability who need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply, please contact us at: talent.acquisition@bluecrossmn.com.
Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® of Minnesota and Blue Plus® are nonprofit independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
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Who's Hiring
- Tetra Tech37
- Lemoine8
- Hagerty Consulting3
- DigiOffice2
- LPL Financial2
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Investment & Asset Management
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in disaster recovery specialist jobs.
- Three to five years of experience developing or maintaining business continuity and disaster recovery plans
- Proficiency with backup and replication technologies such as Veeam, Zerto, or AWS Disaster Recovery
- Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) or equivalent continuity certification
- Demonstrated ability to conduct business impact analyses and enterprise-wide risk assessments
- Familiarity with frameworks including NIST 800-34, ISO 22301, or FISMA requirements
- Experience facilitating tabletop exercises and full-scale disaster recovery tests with cross-functional teams
Tips for Your Disaster Recovery Specialist Job Search
Tailor your resume to RTO and RPO
Hiring managers scan for concrete recovery metrics, so call out specific recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives you've met or designed for. Vague claims about 'ensuring uptime' won't stand out the way hard figures tied to actual incidents or test exercises will.
Highlight your certifications by sector
A CBCP or MBCI carries weight in financial services and insurance, while CISA or CISSP resonates more in government and defense. Lead with the cert that matches the sector you're targeting so recruiters see the right credential without having to dig.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists disaster recovery specialist openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter postings by compliance framework
Many disaster recovery specialist roles are tied to HIPAA, FISMA, SOC 2, or NIST 800-34 requirements. Identifying which framework a posting emphasizes lets you open your cover letter with direct experience in that standard rather than a generic continuity pitch.
Prepare a scenario answer for every interview
Interviewers almost always ask you to walk through a real recovery event you managed. Structure your answer around the incident trigger, the decisions you made under time pressure, and the measurable outcome. Practicing this out loud before the interview tightens the delivery.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate salary
Clarify whether the role owns the full business continuity program or only IT failover, because that scope difference affects your day-to-day authority and long-term growth. Getting alignment on responsibilities before accepting an offer prevents friction in your first 90 days.
Disaster Recovery Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most disaster recovery specialists?
Tetra Tech, Lemoine, and Hagerty Consulting are hiring the most disaster recovery specialists right now, with openings concentrated in Florida, Ohio, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Financial services firms, federal contractors, and large healthcare systems tend to post the highest volume of these roles.
How many disaster recovery specialist jobs are remote?
About 92% of disaster recovery specialist openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the share varies by function. Roles focused on documentation, plan development, and compliance review tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions that require on-site infrastructure testing or data center access typically require in-person presence at least part of the time.
How do you become a disaster recovery specialist?
Start with a foundation in IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, or systems administration, since most disaster recovery roles require you to understand what you're protecting before you plan for its failure. Earn a business continuity or risk certification, then build hands-on experience by supporting a continuity program or responding to real incidents at any level. Documenting plan development and test exercises in your resume accelerates your path into specialist roles.
Can you get a disaster recovery specialist job with little experience?
Entry-level positions do exist, often titled business continuity analyst or IT recovery analyst, and they're a realistic starting point without deep experience. Earning a foundational certification, contributing to a tabletop exercise in a volunteer or academic context, and demonstrating knowledge of NIST or ISO continuity frameworks in your application can overcome a thin professional history. Government contractors and managed service providers hire more entry-level candidates than most job seekers expect.
What does the disaster recovery specialist interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four rounds. An initial screening call with a recruiter focuses on your background and certifications. A technical interview typically asks you to walk through a past recovery event, explain your approach to a business impact analysis, or describe how you'd structure an RTO for a critical application. Final rounds often include a scenario exercise or presentation, and sometimes a panel with business stakeholders who want to assess your communication skills alongside technical depth.
Where can I find and apply to disaster recovery specialist jobs?
You can find and apply to disaster recovery specialist jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience level, sector, and technical focus, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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