Disaster Recovery Consultant

About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota

At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, we are committed to paving the way for everyone to achieve their healthiest life. We are looking for dedicated and motivated individuals who share our vision of transforming healthcare. As a Blue Cross associate, you are joining a culture that is built on values of succeeding together, finding a better way, and doing the right thing. If you are ready to make a difference, join us.

The Impact You'll Have


The Disaster Recovery Consultant is responsible for developing, maintaining, testing, and continuously improving disaster recovery capabilities across the organization's cloud, hybrid, SaaS and on-premise technology environments.

This role serves as a disaster recovery subject matter expert with a primary focus on cloud recovery. The consultant partners with application owners, cloud engineering teams, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity, vendors, and business stakeholders to design, validate, and enhance recovery capabilities that ensure critical systems can be restored within established recovery objectives.

The successful candidate will independently lead disaster recovery planning, testing, analysis, and remediation activities with minimal supervision. This includes evaluating recovery strategies, validating recovery capabilities through testing, identifying recovery gaps and dependencies – including integrations with SaaS - and driving continuous improvement across the disaster recovery program.

This position is intended for an experienced continuity professional with 3 or more years of relevant experience. Participation in disaster recovery activities alone is not sufficient. This is not an entry-level role. Candidates must possess direct, hands-on disaster recovery experience and be able to perform the core responsibilities of the position upon hire. Successful candidates will demonstrate a practitioner’s history of owning disaster recovery deliverables, leading recovery testing efforts, evaluating recovery outcomes, and implementing measurable improvements to organizational recovery capabilities.



What You'll Do

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve recovery plans with stakeholders, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with program standards and requirements.
• Identify risks, dependencies, capability gaps, single points of failure, and opportunities to improve resilience posture.
• Partner with stakeholders to identify critical needs and dependencies to establish recovery requirements, objectives, and strategies that support organizational needs.
• Lead exercises, testing, and validation activities; evaluate results, identify gaps and improvement opportunities, and drive corrective actions through completion.
• Monitor program compliance, metrics, reporting, milestones, and action plans.
• Provide consultation and guidance to stakeholders, leadership, and vendors regarding planning requirements, practices, and program standards.




How You'll Do It

• Plan, coordinate, facilitate, and document disaster recovery exercises, tabletop exercises, failover tests, and recovery validations. Define test objectives, success criteria, participant responsibilities, and evidence requirements.
• Maintain documentation, repositories, inventories, reporting, and supporting materials required for governance, audit, risk, regulatory, and compliance activities.
• Support risk identification activities by assessing potential disruptions that could impact critical business functions or third-party providers.
• Identify and implement improvements to program processes, testing methodologies, reporting, and governance.
• Support incident, crisis, and recovery activities by coordinating activation, response, documentation, and follow-up.
• Provide on-call support to events and activations as required.
• Performs additional responsibilities consistent with the scope and level of the role, as assigned.




Required Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of related Enterprise Resilience professional experience.
• Bachelor’s degree; in lieu of a degree, an additional two years of relevant experience beyond the qualifications listed above may be accepted.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• DRII or BCI certification
• Familiarity with resilience management.
• Experience designing disaster recovery plans in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated industry.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of resilience and disaster recovery best practices, standards and frameworks.
• Proven ability to guide team towards shared goals without relying on positional authority.
• Experience in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, insurance, financial services, or government.
• Knowledge of industry standards and frameworks including ISO 22301, NIST, FEMA, or operational resilience guidance.
• Knowledge of information security, cybersecurity practices, and risk management principles.
  




Role Designation


Hybrid



Role designation definition:

• Teleworking is working full time remote.
• Hybrid is a minimum of 2 days onsite.
• Onsite is full-time onsite.

Anchored in Connection

Our hybrid approach is designed to balance flexibility with meaningful in-person connection and collaboration. We come together in the office two days each week – most teams designate at least one anchor day to ensure team interaction. These in-person moments foster relationships, creativity, and alignment. The rest of the week you are empowered to work remote.




Compensation and Benefits


$90,800.00 - $120,300.00 - $149,800.00 Annual

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position, including skills, ability, and knowledge the selected individual is bringing to the specific job.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package which may include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Life insurance

• 401k

• Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)

• And more

To discover more about what we have to offer, please review our benefits page.




Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, we are committed to paving the way for everyone to achieve their healthiest life. Blue Cross of Minnesota is an Equal Opportunity Employer and maintains an Affirmative Action plan, as required by Minnesota law applicable to state contractors. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on any legally protected characteristic.

Individuals with a disability who need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply, please contact us at: [email protected].

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