IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) Consultant📣 Job Ad

About the Opportunity

Salt is partnering with a leading organization in Riyadh to recruit an IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) Consultant. This contract role is based in Riyadh and requires 5-10 years of relevant experience. The consultant will play a key role in strengthening enterprise resilience by assessing, designing, and governing Disaster Recovery capabilities across the organization.

Role Overview

This is a strategic advisory position with a focus on governance, operating models, risk assessment, documentation, and stakeholder engagement. The role emphasizes strategic oversight and guidance rather than hands-on infrastructure implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise-wide IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) risk assessments and maturity evaluations.
• Design and develop comprehensive Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs) aligned with business-critical services.
• Define recovery strategies, Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), and application recovery priorities.
• Perform technology dependency analysis and develop end-to-end recovery workflows and procedures.
• Establish and implement a Disaster Recovery Incident Management Framework (DRIMF), including incident governance, escalation models, crisis communications, and executive reporting.
• Develop an enterprise IT Disaster Recovery Operating Model covering governance structures, organizational roles, KPIs, KRIs, service metrics, and continuous improvement.
• Facilitate workshops with business and technology stakeholders to identify critical systems, dependencies, and recovery requirements.
• Produce high-quality documentation, governance artifacts, standards, policies, and operating procedures.
• Ensure Disaster Recovery capabilities align with international best practices and Saudi regulatory requirements.
• Support the development of Disaster Recovery maturity roadmaps and ongoing governance initiatives.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Proven experience (5-10 years) delivering enterprise IT Disaster Recovery strategy, governance, and advisory engagements.
• Strong understanding of ITDR Risk Assessments and Business Impact Analysis (BIA).
• Experience developing Disaster Recovery Plans, recovery procedures, and governance frameworks.
• Experience designing enterprise operating models, governance structures, steering committees, KPIs, KRIs, and service metrics.

Essential Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of recovery strategies and recovery workflows.
• Proficiency in RTO/RPO definition and management, and critical application recovery mapping.
• Understanding of technology dependency analysis.
• Familiarity with Disaster Recovery governance and operating models.
• Knowledge of incident lifecycle management, escalation frameworks, incident classification, severity models, and crisis communication.
• Understanding of RACI matrices, executive reporting, regulatory reporting requirements, Lessons Learned processes, and continual service improvement.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and documentation skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage senior business and technology leaders.

Work Environment

This is a contract position based in Riyadh. The role requires a professional with a strategic mindset to contribute to the organization's resilience framework and ensure robust disaster recovery capabilities.