Director, Cyber & Technology Resilience

Title:

Director, Cyber & Technology Resilience

Company:

Everest Global Services, Inc.

Job Category:

Technology

Job Description:

About Everest

Everest is a global leader in risk management, rooted in a rich, 50+ year heritage of enabling businesses to survive and thrive, and economies to function and flourish. We are underwriters of risk, growth, progress and opportunity. We are a global team focused on disciplined capital allocation and long-term value creation for all stakeholders, who care deeply about our impact on communities and the wider world.

About the Role

You're invited to join the Global Resilience team within our Information Security and Risk (ISR) organization as a Technology Resiliency Director. In this governance-focused role, you'll lead the development of a new technical resilience program, including policy creation, standards development, and exercise management.

As the technical resilience lead, you'll oversee global disaster recovery, Cyber Vault initiatives, and other contingency planning efforts. You'll ensure the organization has robust technology recovery strategies in place and that application backup and failover testing are conducted effectively.

This is a hybrid position based in our Warren, NJ office, with 3 days in office and 2 days remote.

Position Roles and Responsibilities (not limited to):

• Help develop and implement an enhanced technology resilience program, including establishing and maintaining enterprise-wide disaster recovery policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines.

• Collaborate with Infrastructure and Development teams to create application failover runbooks and define associated standards.

• Apply your experience with Rubrik's immutable backup architecture to support design and implementation efforts.

• Identify and track issues within the disaster recovery program, ensuring remediation plans are created and executed effectively.

• Partner with Infrastructure and Architecture teams to design forward-looking technology resiliency patterns.

• Develop infrastructure and application recovery plans in virtualized server and cloud environments, particularly Azure.

• Work closely with business continuity, emergency management, and process owners to align disaster recovery plans with business needs.

• Support the implementation of Fusion Risk Management software, contributing to its successful rollout.

• Lead the remediation of corrective actions identified during exercises or audits.

• Establish a regular Resiliency Program reporting cadence, including KPI scorecards to track compliance with program deliverables.

Qualifications

• You hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or have equivalent work experience.

• You have 7-10 years of experience in disaster recovery planning and failover testing of technology components.

• You bring 2-3 years of experience working with Azure cloud resiliency architectures and solutions.

• Experience in disaster recovery planning and testing within a financial institution is a plus.

• You have strong knowledge of IT infrastructure, including data storage and backup, network infrastructure, virtualization, and disaster recovery strategies.

• You're familiar with tools like ServiceNow, Jira, Everbridge, and Fusion Risk Management.

• You're analytical, a strong problem-solver, and confident in making decisions.

• You're a highly motivated self-starter who can manage multiple tasks independently.

• Your written and verbal communication skills are excellent, and you're comfortable interacting with all levels of the organization.

• You have experience with large enterprise application backup and recovery strategies.

• You know how to convey complex technical information to diverse audiences.

• You bring effective project management skills and a professional, tactful approach to collaboration.

Preferred Certifications &Tools

• ITIL certification

• Certifications in Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, or Information Security

• Project/Program Management certifications

• Experience with the Everbridge mass notification platform

• Proficiency in MS Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio

The base salary range for this position is $152,000 - $175,000 annually. The offered rate of compensation will be based on individual education, experience, qualifications and work location. All offers include access to a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, 401k match, retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

What if I don't meet every requirement? At Everest we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. So, if you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every element in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Please let us know if you need any accommodations throughout the application or interview process.

Our Culture

At Everest, our purpose is to provide the world with protection. We help clients and businesses thrive, fuel global economies, and create sustainable value for our colleagues, shareholders and the communities that we serve. We also pride ourselves on having a unique and inclusive culture which is driven by a unified set of values and behaviors. Click here to learn more about our culture.

• Our Values are the guiding principles that inform our decisions, actions and behaviors. They are an expression of our culture and an integral part of how we work: Talent. Thoughtful assumption of risk. Execution. Efficiency. Humility. Leadership. Collaboration. Inclusion and Belonging.
• Our Colleague Behaviors define how we operate and interact with each other no matter our location, level or function: Respect everyone. Pursue better. Lead by example. Own our outcomes. Win together.

All colleagues are held accountable to upholding and supporting our values and behaviors across the company. This includes day to day interactions with fellow colleagues, and the global communities we serve.

Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Primary Location:

Warren, NJ

Additional Locations:

Everest is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, genetics, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, civil union status, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. As part of this commitment, Everest will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Everest Benefits at everestbenefits@everestglobal.com.

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