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Senior Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Analyst

Job in Cape Town, 7100, South Africa
Listing for: DigiCert
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-03-04
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery IT, Cybersecurity
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Digi Cert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered Digi Cert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose Digi Cert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future

Job summary

The Senior BC/DR Analyst is responsible for coordinating, maintaining, and continuously improving Digi Cert’s enterprise Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Resiliency program.

This role acts as the central governance and program coordination owner for BC/DR across Digi Cert, 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, Web Trust, ETSI, NIST, and CA/B Forum requirements.

The role operates as a first-line governance function, working closely with Digi Cert’s technology, infrastructure, security, and business teams who retain operational ownership of systems and recovery execution.

What you will do Business Continuity Program Ownership
  • Own and maintain Digi Cert’s enterprise Business Continuity Plan (BCP), ensuring it is current, approved, and consistently applied across the organization.
  • Coordinate periodic reviews and updates of the BCP to reflect organizational, system, or risk changes.
  • Ensure BCP scope includes all relevant Digi Cert entities, services, and supporting functions.
Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
  • Coordinate and manage Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) across Digi Cert’s critical business processes and systems.
  • Partner with business owners and technology teams to:
  • identify critical processes and dependencies
  • document Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), and Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD)
  • Ensure BIAs are reviewed regularly and approved by appropriate management stakeholders.
Disaster Recovery & Resiliency Oversight
  • Maintain governance oversight of disaster recovery plans owned by Digi Cert’s Infrastructure, Cloud and Engineering teams.
  • Ensure alignment between DR plans and business continuity objectives.
  • Track and report gaps between defined recovery objectives and test results.
  • Develop and maintain a BCP/DR testing and exercise framework, including:
  • tabletop exercises
  • business continuity simulations
  • coordination with technical disaster recovery tests
  • Maintain an approved test schedule and ensure exercises are performed, documented, and reviewed.
  • Capture lessons learned and track remediation actions to completion.
Audit, Assurance & Remediation Coordination
  • Serve as the primary BCP/DR governance point of contact for:
  • internal audits (without performing audit activities)
  • external auditors and assessors
  • customer assurance inquiries
  • Coordinate remediation of BCP/DR-related findings and recommendations.
  • Ensure audit evidence and documentation are maintained and readily available.
Policy, Awareness & Enablement
  • Support Governance-owned policies related to business continuity and resiliency.
  • Partner with training and communications teams to support awareness of BCP/DR roles, responsibilities, and activation procedures.
  • Assist in maintaining reference materials and guidance for continuity planning and exercises.
Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Provide regular reporting on BCP/DR maturity, testing outcomes, risks, and remediation status to GRC leadership, Trust Office leadership and the CTRO.
  • Act as a coordination point between Governance, Infrastructure, Engineering, Security, Legal, People Ops, and Business leaders.
What you will have
  • 4+ years of experience in:
  • Business continuity
  • Disaster recovery
  • Operational resilience
  • Risk, Governance, or Compliance-related roles
  • Solid understanding of:
  • BCP/DR frameworks and lifecycle management
  • Business Impact Analysis methodologies
  • RTO (Recovery Time Objective), RPO (Recovery Point Objective), and MTD (Maximum Tolerable Downtime) concepts
  • Experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong documentation, organization, and follow-up skills.
  • Comfortable operating in a regulated and audit-sensitive environment.
Nice to have
  • Experience with ISO/IEC 27001 or similar standards.
  • Exposure to internal or external audit processes.
  • Familiarity with SaaS, cloud, or highly available technology environments.
  • Experience planning or supporting continuity or resilience exercises.
  • Strong organizational and program management skills
  • Confidence engaging with senior technical stakeholders
  • Comfort operating with partial information and driving clarity
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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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