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 22301, 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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