Technology Continuity & Resilience Senior Manager
Disaster Recovery | Business Continuity | Operational Resilience | CPS 230
Sydney | Permanent
We are partnering with a regulated Australian financial services organisation to appoint a Technology Continuity & Resilience Senior Manager to take ownership of its enterprise Technology Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Technology Resilience capability.
You will own the end-to-end technology resilience framework across infrastructure, applications, cloud platforms, SaaS and data, ensuring critical technology services are recoverable, regularly tested and aligned with APRA CPS 230 requirements.
The role will work closely with Engineering, Architecture, Infrastructure, Cloud, Cyber Security, Risk, Compliance and senior executives.
What you'll be responsible for
Disaster Recovery Strategy & Architecture
Own and continuously improve the enterprise Disaster Recovery strategy
Define appropriate DR architecture patterns, including active-active, pilot light, warm standby and cold standby
Embed resilience and recovery requirements into technology architecture, cloud transformation, infrastructure and change programs
Ensure appropriate backup, replication, failover, recovery and redundancy across critical Tier 1 and Tier 2 systems
Partner with Architecture and Engineering teams to build resilience into technology by design
Design and lead an enterprise Disaster Recovery testing program
Run tabletop exercises, component recovery tests, parallel testing, live failover and failback
Test realistic scenarios including: ransomware and cyber incidents, data centre outages, cloud platform failures, infrastructure failures,



SaaS outages
Validate and report against RTO and RPO
Identify recovery gaps, risks and remediation activities
Business Continuity & Operational Resilience
Own and maintain the technology Business Continuity Management framework
Support compliance with APRA CPS 230
Lead and support Business Impact Assessments (BIA)
Define critical services, dependencies and operational tolerances
Maintain continuity plans and critical operations registers
Provide clear resilience reporting to executive and board-level stakeholders
Incident & Crisis Management
Act as a senior Technology Disaster Recovery Lead during major incidents
Support Severity 1 / Severity 2 incident response and recovery
Coordinate technology recovery across infrastructure, cloud, applications and vendors
Lead post-incident reviews and drive ongoing improvements in resilience capability
Third-Party & Cloud Resilience
Assess the resilience and DR capability of critical technology vendors and service providers
Lead joint recovery testing with strategic third parties
Challenge supplier BCP, DR, RTO and RPO arrangements
Ensure resilience across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud / GCP, SaaS and hybrid environments
Technical exposure
Hands-on knowledge or strong familiarity with technologies such as:
Networking & Failover: DNS, BGP, load balancing
Recovery: replication, backup, failover/failback, high availability, RTO, RPO
Frameworks & Regulation: APRA CPS 230, ISO *****, ITIL
Why consider this opportunity?
This role offers the prospect to take genuine ownership of a significant technology resilience and disaster recovery capability within a complex enterprise.
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