Disaster Recovery (DR) Test Coordinator and Exercise Lead

Overview DecisionPoint seeks a Disaster Recovery (DR) Test Coordinator and Exercise Lead to plan, manage, and document enterprise-wide DR and Continuity of Operations (COOP) exercises across a large federal and DoD-aligned IT environment. This role ensures full compliance with DoD, NIST, and federal testing requirements while validating system recoverability, operational resilience, and continuity readiness. The DR Test Coordinator and Exercise Lead will conduct bi-annual DR/COOP exercises, validate RTO/RPO requirements, coordinate cross-team participation, and document all results, findings, and corrective actions. This position contributes directly to enterprise mission assurance by ensuring systems and teams are prepared for failover events. This position is fully remote. Duties & Responsibilities The DR Test Coordinator and Exercise Lead will: Plan, schedule, and execute bi-annual DR and COOP exercises for enterprise applications, infrastructure, databases, and cloud systems. Ensure exercises comply with NIST, DoD, and federal continuity testing requirements. Develop exercise agendas, scenarios, evaluation criteria, and recovery validation steps. Coordinate participation across engineering, cloud, database, security, and service desk teams. Validate Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for critical systems. Document test results, performance metrics, observed gaps, and recovery timelines. Prepare After-Action Reports (AARs), Corrective