Disaster Recovery Manager

Job Posting End Date 08-30-2026 Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.

The Disaster Recovery Manager is responsible for establishing, implementing, and governing AEP's enterprise Disaster Recovery (DR) program. This role develops and maintains recovery policy, standards, governance processes, training, testing, and assurance activities to ensure technology recovery capabilities align with business continuity requirements and enterprise risk tolerance. This position serves as the enterprise accountability for DR governance and drives implementation of a centralized program across Technology, Cybersecurity, Business Units, Operational Technology, and third-party service providers. The role establishes consistent recovery requirements, oversees program effectiveness, and integrates DR expectations into technology lifecycle management, architecture reviews, application onboarding, cloud adoption, vendor resiliency, dependency mapping, and broader operational resilience activities. The position does not directly execute technology recovery activities; it governs readiness, validation, assurance, and continuous improvement and is part of an enterprise emergency response team.

What You’ll Do: Essential Job Functions & Tasks: Establish, implement, and maintain AEP's enterprise Disaster Recovery program, including governance framework, policies, standards, procedures, operating model, roles, accountability, control objectives, recovery tiers, and minimum expectations for technology recovery readiness. Set and govern standards for technology-related Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), service recovery requirements, business criticality alignment, and periodic validation of recovery objectives. Partner with Technology, Cybersecurity, Business Units, Operational Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Third-Party Risk, Procurement, and operational stakeholders to align recovery capabilities with critical business services, business continuity needs, and enterprise risk tolerance. Integrate DR requirements into system design, architecture reviews, application onboarding, cloud adoption, technology lifecycle management, dependency mapping, ServiceNow/CMDB data governance, and change processes. Establish governance and minimum resilience requirements for cloud services, SaaS providers, managed service providers, and third-party technology vendors supporting critical business functions. Manage integration of crown jewel, critical data, and cyber resilience requirements into enterprise DR standards, testing and assurance activities. Develop and oversee the enterprise DR testing, validation, and assurance strategy, including test scope, frequency, success criteria, pass/fail expectations, scenario design, lessons learned, evidence retention, after-action reporting, and corrective action management. Coordinate with Cybersecurity and Technology teams to incorporate ransomware, data corruption, cyber recovery, immutable backup, clean-room recovery, and forensic evidence considerations into recovery standards and exercises. Manage KPIs, KRIs, executive dashboards, and reporting mechanisms to communicate DR readiness, program maturity, risks, gaps, exceptions, corrective actions, and audit/regulatory commitments. Define and govern enterprise DR training standards, role-based readiness expectations, curriculum requirements, and governance controls to ensure training content aligns with DR policy, testing strategy, exercise outcomes, audit findings, and program maturity needs, while partnering with the designated training team for delivery and completion management. Additional Requirements: Physical Demand Level: S - Sedentary Work What We’re Looking for: Education requirements are listed below: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Business, Risk Management, Emergency Management, Engineering, or related field,