Assistant Vice President – Business Continuity & Cyber Resiliency
The Assistant Vice President – Business Continuity & Cyber Resiliency is responsible for driving enterprise-wide resilience, with a strong focus on cyber disruption preparedness and managing large-scale crisis events. This position plays a hands-on role during enterprise-wide crisis events, including cyberattacks, technology outages, geopolitical events, civic disturbances, and large-scale operational disruptions.
Cyber Resiliency
- Partner with Cyber, Technology, Infrastructure, Application Owners, Cloud, and third parties to define cyber recovery objectives (RTO/RPO), prioritized service recovery, and dependency mapping.
- Lead adoption of cyber resiliency practices, immutable and air-gapped backups, clean-room recovery, secure identity recovery, and restoration validation.
- Ensure cyber crisis response playbooks are fully integrated across Incident Response, Crisis Management, DR, Legal, Compliance, Communications, and Executive leadership.
- Drive regular cyber recovery simulations (table-top and technical); track corrective actions through closure and report readiness to governance forums.
Business Continuity
- Lead implementation, and continuous enhancement of enterprise Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Cyber Resiliency frameworks aligned to ISO 22301 and leading resilience standards.
- Act as a primary point of contact for client assurance, regulatory reviews, audits, RFPs/RFIs, and resilience capability demonstrations.
- Drive organization-wide Business Impact Assessments (BIA), risk assessments, and threat modeling to identify critical services, recovery priorities, and systemic vulnerabilities.
- Identify and remediate Single Points of Failure (SPOFs) across business processes, technology, people, and third-party dependencies.
Crisis Management
- Lead and coordinate large-scale enterprise crisis response, acting as a core member of the Crisis Management Team during high-impact events.
- Manage crises including cyber incidents, technology outages, infrastructure failures, civil disturbances, natural disasters, and geopolitical disruptions, ensuring controlled escalation and decision-making.
- Oversee development, testing, and execution of Crisis Management Plans, Emergency Response Plans, and Command Center protocols.
Qualifications
- 8–15 years of overall experience, with hands-on experience in working closely with Information Security, Cyber Defense, SOC and Incident Response.
- Proven experience managing complex, high-pressure, multi-stakeholder crisis events, including cyber incidents.
- Strong working knowledge of ISO 22301, BCM lifecycle, cyber recovery models, and integrated crisis response.
- Certifications such as ISO 22301, CISSP, CISM, CBCI, MBCI or equivalent strongly preferred.
- Executive-level communication skills with the ability to operate confidently during crisis situations.
Mandatory experience into-
- Crisis management
- Cyber resiliency
- Any graduate with add on Certification into ISO 22301, NIST, ISO 27001 and other applicable standards
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Scope/Scale of exposure- Should have Global exposure
- Exposure into Cloud IT
- Location- Noida/ Pune
- CTC- 40L-42 L fixed
- Timing- 12pm- 9pm