{"id":30905,"date":"2026-03-02T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/job\/senior-business-continuity-disaster-recovery-analyst-corporate-account-manager-africa-technical-content-strat\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T10:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T10:00:41","slug":"senior-business-continuity-disaster-recovery-analyst-corporate-account-manager-africa-technical-content-strat","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/job\/senior-business-continuity-disaster-recovery-analyst-corporate-account-manager-africa-technical-content-strat\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Business Continuity &amp; Disaster Recovery Analyst \n\n\n            \n\n            \n            Corporate Account Manager, Africa \n\n\n            \n\n            \n            Technical Content Strategist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Job summary<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Senior BC\/DR Analyst is responsible for coordinating, maintaining, and continuously improving DigiCert\u2019s enterprise Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Resiliency program.<br \/>\n\tThis role acts as the central governance and program coordination owner for BC\/DR across DigiCert, ensuring that business continuity plans, disaster recovery exercises, business impact analyses, testing reports, and remediation activities are consistently executed, documented, and aligned with industry standards such as ISO\/IEC 27001, WebTrust, ETSI, NIST, and CA\/B Forum requirements.<br \/>\n\tThe role operates as a first-line governance function, working closely with DigiCert\u2019s technology, infrastructure, security, and business teams who retain operational ownership of systems and recovery execution.<\/p>\n<p>What you will do<\/p>\n<p>Business Continuity Program Ownership<\/p>\n<p>\tOwn and maintain DigiCert\u2019s enterprise Business Continuity Plan (BCP), ensuring it is current, approved, and consistently applied across the organization.<br \/>\n\tCoordinate periodic reviews and updates of the BCP to reflect organizational, system, or risk changes.<br \/>\n\tEnsure BCP scope includes all relevant DigiCert entities, services, and supporting functions.<\/p>\n<p>Business Impact Analysis (BIA)<\/p>\n<p>\tCoordinate and manage Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) across DigiCert\u2019s critical business processes and systems.<br \/>\n\tPartner with business owners and technology teams to:<br \/>\n\tidentify critical processes and dependencies<br \/>\n\tdocument Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), and Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)<br \/>\n\tEnsure BIAs are reviewed regularly and approved by appropriate management stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>Disaster Recovery &amp; Resiliency Oversight<\/p>\n<p>\tMaintain governance oversight of disaster recovery plans owned by DigiCert\u2019s Infrastructure, Cloud and Engineering teams.<br \/>\n\tEnsure alignment between DR plans and business continuity objectives.<br \/>\n\tTrack and report gaps between defined recovery objectives and test results.<\/p>\n<p>Testing &amp; Exercising<\/p>\n<p>Develop and maintain a BCP\/DR testing and exercise framework, including:<\/p>\n<p>\ttabletop exercises<br \/>\n\tbusiness continuity simulations<br \/>\n\tcoordination with technical disaster recovery tests<br \/>\n\tMaintain an approved test schedule and ensure exercises are performed, documented, and reviewed.<br \/>\n\tCapture lessons learned and track remediation actions to completion.<\/p>\n<p>Audit, Assurance &amp; Remediation Coordination<\/p>\n<p>Serve as the primary BCP\/DR governance point of contact for:<\/p>\n<p>\tinternal audits (without performing audit activities)<br \/>\n\texternal auditors and assessors<br \/>\n\tcustomer assurance inquiries<br \/>\n\tCoordinate remediation of BCP\/DR-related findings and recommendations.<br \/>\n\tEnsure audit evidence and documentation are maintained and readily available.<\/p>\n<p>Policy, Awareness &amp; 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