IT Disaster Recovery Specialist

Fusion HCR is Hiring!

Role: IT Disaster Recovery Specialist Location: Birmingham, Alabama Work Arrangement: Hybrid Employment Type: Full-time, direct hire Industry: Automation machinery manufacturing

This opportunity is with a large enterprise in the automation machinery manufacturing industry. The IT Disaster Recovery Specialist will help strengthen recovery planning and readiness across a broad technology environment, working with infrastructure, applications, security, and business teams.

Position Overview

Fusion HCR is seeking an IT Disaster Recovery Specialist to support disaster recovery planning, testing, and readiness across an enterprise IT environment. The specialist will help ensure that recovery plans and procedures are current, critical systems and dependencies are documented, and recovery requirements are understood.

This role works across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, virtual environments, and enterprise applications. The specialist will coordinate recovery exercises, review results, identify gaps, and track corrective actions through resolution. The position also maintains readiness reporting and documentation for audit and compliance reviews, partnering with technical teams and business stakeholders to improve recovery preparedness.

Key Responsibilities

Maintain and update disaster recovery plans, procedures, system inventories, and technical documentation.

Work with IT teams to identify critical systems, infrastructure dependencies, and recovery requirements.

Document and validate Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).

Coordinate disaster recovery exercises, including tabletop scenarios, recovery simulations, and functional testing.

Evaluate exercise results, identify recovery gaps, and track corrective actions through completion.

Support recovery planning across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, virtual environments, and enterprise applications.

Maintain readiness metrics, reports, and documentation for audits and compliance reviews.

Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, and business teams to strengthen disaster recovery preparedness.

Required Qualifications

At least five years of experience in IT operations, infrastructure, systems administration, or a related technical role.

Two to four years of experience in disaster recovery, business continuity, technology resilience, cloud infrastructure, or IT risk management.

Understanding of disaster recovery strategies, RTOs, RPOs, system dependencies, and recovery testing.

Working knowledge of enterprise networks, servers, virtualization, and cloud environments.

Strong organizational, documentation, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Ability to coordinate activities across multiple technical teams and follow through on outstanding issues.

Experience with enterprise platforms such as IBM i, mainframe systems, or virtual machine environments is helpful.

Bachelor’s degree in IT, computer science, or a related field preferred.

Must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

Why Join Us

Enterprise IT Exposure: Work across infrastructure, cloud platforms, virtual environments, and critical business applications.

Meaningful Impact: Help protect business operations by ensuring recovery plans are accurate, tested, and ready for use.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with specialists and business stakeholders across infrastructure, applications, security, and other teams.

Hybrid Flexibility: Work in a hybrid arrangement based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Professional Growth: Build experience in disaster recovery, technology resilience, risk management, and enterprise IT operations.