Disaster Recovery & COOP Engineer

Job description

Responsibilities We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Disaster Recovery & COOP Engineer to join our team in the greater DMV area, supporting the Army National Guard. Responsibilities: - Architect, develop, and maintain enterprise disaster recovery (DR) and Continuity of Operations (COOP) capabilities for systems, applications, and cybersecurity platforms. - Design COOP plans, backup/recovery procedures, contingency playbooks, failover architectures, and recovery point/time objectives aligned with RMF, DoD, Army, and ARNG directives. - Maintain COOP environments, coordinate failover testing and contingency exercises, and validate recovery procedures to ensure continuity of essential services during disruptions. - Integrate redundancy, continuity, and recovery requirements into system and network designs to ensure resilience against cyber incidents, infrastructure failures, and mission disruptions. - Collaborate with cybersecurity engineering, SOC/CIRT, enterprise architects, and system owners to assess resilience, identify continuity gaps, and recommend architectural improvements. - Lead development and execution of DR/COOP exercises, capture lessons learned, and update pl...