Posted Apr 19
GitHub is looking for an experienced Resiliency professional with a technical bent to lead the continued growth and maintenance of GitHub’s Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery program. In addition to filling the role of a senior manager, this role will be uniquely positioned to build relationships and liaise across the enterprise and will work in close collaboration with the Director of Technical Risk. GitHub is committed to doing right by our customers and developing a BCDR program where risk is managed in a meaningful and sensible way that aligns with our business.
If you have a demonstrated record in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, have experience collaborating with service owners, teams, and diverse business organizations in order to drive enterprise objectives and want to contribute to making the world's largest software development platform more resilient, we want to hear from you!
About the Role:
As part of the Technical Risk Team, this role will lead the Resilience Program. You will work closely with multiple groups including software engineering, infrastructure, product, security operations, and audit to develop and execute sound disaster recovery processes and technical controls to meet customer needs and address internal business objectives.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced manager to have a hand in elevating disaster recovery as a business and sales enabler, and to integrate a deep understanding of product and business into the resilience program space. This is a team effort, so bringing your team members, leadership, and customers along for the ride is integral to your success. Central to the team's culture is that of inclusion, transparency, and teamwork - we lift each other up to be successful!
The selected candidate should be comfortable interfacing with engineering, product and security services as well as business and operational organizations. The role will work with respective stakeholders and owners to prioritize the business continuity and disaster recovery efforts with the highest potential impact and support the operationalization of those efforts. Our ideal candidate takes an extremely pragmatic approach to disaster recovery, functions as part of a growing team, and is able to balance the needs of a very dynamic engineering culture with that of protecting the company and customer data.
Past experience specifically in Disaster Recovery planning supporting cataloged services in an IT, Software, Finance, Government or other similarly complex organization will stand out.
Responsibilities:
You will be the lead of the program and collaborate with your direct reports as well as the Technical Risk Director on the build out, maintenance and ongoing testing and improvement of business continuity and disaster recovery plans across GitHub. As part of this role, you will:
Required Experience:
Preferred Experience and Approach:
(Colorado only) Minimum salary of 104,400 to maximum 221,500 + bonus + equity + benefits.
Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired in Colorado.
Who We Are:
GitHub is the developer company. We make it easier for developers to be developers: to work together, to solve challenging problems, and to create the world’s most important technologies. We foster a collaborative community that can come togetheras individuals and in teamsto create the future of software and make a difference in the world.
Leadership Principles:
Customer Obsessed - Trust by Default - Ship to Learn - Own the Outcome - Growth Mindset - Global Product, Global Team - Anything is Possible - Practice Kindness
Why You Should Join:
At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We've designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where many Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The rest of our Hubbers work remotely around the globe.
We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We've designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we've built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.
Remote Mix: 100% Remote
Job Type: Full-Time
Regional Restrictions: USA Only