Staff Security Engineer, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

About AlphaSense: The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the SP 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us! Role Overview: We're seeking a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCP/DR) Senior Engineer to help us implement, maintain, and continuously improve our organization's resilience capabilities. Reporting to the Director of Event Response, this role will execute the BCP/DR strategy and own the operational aspects of the continuity function, working cross-functionally across Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, and Business Operations teams to ensure AlphaSense can maintain critical operations during disruptions. The Director of Event Response owns the overall BCP/DR strategy and direction. This role focuses on translating that strategy into actionable plans, procedures, testing, and day-to-day operational execution. You'll partner closely with the Director of Event Response, CISO, Security leadership, and stakeholders across the company to operationalize a mature, tested, and actionable continuity capability that protects our business and customers. Reports To: Director of Event Response Level: Senior Individual Contributor Key Responsibilities: Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Strategy Design and implement comprehensive BCP/DR programs aligned with industry frameworks (ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, ISO 27001) Conduct Business Impact Analyses (BIA) to identify critical business functions, dependencies, and recovery priorities Define and maintain Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for all critical systems and services Develop and maintain disaster recovery playbooks and runbooks for various incident scenarios Create and manage crisis communication frameworks for security incidents and business disruptions Lead tabletop exercises and disaster recovery drills to validate recovery procedures Cloud Infrastructure Backup Engineering Design and implement backup and recovery solutions for AWS cloud infrastructure (primary focus) Build automated backup workflows for databases, storage systems, applications, and configurations Implement immutable backup strategies and offsite replication for ransomware resilience Monitor backup operations, validate recovery procedures, and maintain backup integrity Optimize backup windows, retention policies, and storage costs across cloud environments Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for DR environment provisioning and configuration management Recovery Operations Testing Develop automated failover and failback procedures for critical services Design and maintain hot/warm/cold standby environments based on business requirements Conduct regular disaster recovery testing and document test results with improvement recommendations Build monitoring and alerting systems for backup health, replication lag, and recovery readiness Maintain detailed recovery documentation including network diagrams, dependency maps, and configuration deta ... (truncated, view full listing at source)