Disaster Recovery Lead

Requisition ID: 191277
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: IT Service Centre
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time

Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Ontario; Nova Scotia
City: Mississauga / Stellarton
Location: Tahoe Office, Foord St. Office

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada’s Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.

Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.

A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.

Ready to Make an impact?

Position Summary:

The Disaster Recovery (DR) Lead is responsible for leading the strategy, development, planning and execution of enterprise-wide disaster recovery programs. This role ensures Sobeys technology infrastructure and critical systems can be restored effectively in the event of an outage or disaster. The DR Lead partners closely with IT, cybersecurity, business units, and risk functions to align recovery capabilities with business needs, compliance requirements, and evolving threats.

Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full-time opportunity for a Disaster Recovery Lead. This role can be based out of one our main offices including: Stellarton, NS; Mississauga, ON.

Here’s where you’ll be focusing:

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the design, implementation, and maintenance of Sobeys disaster recovery (DR) strategy, policies, and plans.
• Oversee the development of system-specific recovery procedures and run-books across applications, platforms, and infrastructure.
• Lead regular disaster recovery testing, including full failover, tabletop exercises, and scenario-based simulations.
• Partner with infrastructure and cloud teams to ensure replication, backup, and failover solutions meet defined RTOs/RPOs.
• Conduct business impact analyses (BIAs) and risk assessments to inform recovery priorities and DR scope.
• Track remediation plans and ensure recovery gaps identified during testing or audits are closed in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Cybersecurity, Risk, and Compliance teams to ensure an integrated resilience strategy.
• Maintain DR documentation to support audit readiness and regulatory compliance (., ISO 22301, NIST, SOC 2).
• Lead DR response efforts during major incidents or outages, coordinating technical recovery and stakeholder communication.
• Manage third-party vendors, contracts, and tools supporting DR operations.

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What you have to offer:

Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in disaster recovery, IT continuity, or infrastructure operations.
• 2+ years in a leadership, management, or program ownership role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Risk Management, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience with DR design, implementation, and testing in complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated background in disaster recovery planning and execution specific to the retail industry

Technical Knowledge:

• Solid understanding of backup and recovery solutions (., Veeam, Zerto, Commvault, Azure Site Recovery).
• Familiarity with virtual infrastructure, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), networking, and storage systems.
• Knowledge of risk, compliance, and governance standards (ISO 22301, NIST, COBIT, ITIL).
• Experience with SAP and other enterprise applications

Certifications (Preferred):

• ITIL Foundation or Practitioner
• Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII) certification
• Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP)
• CISSP or equivalent for cybersecurity-aligned DR

Key Skills & Competencies:

• Strong leadership and team coordination skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management, including executive reporting.
• Strong vendor management skills.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to assess risk and translate technical issues into business impact.
• High attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple work-streams and deadlines.
• Calm under pressure, with strong incident management capabilities.

At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.

We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better – physically, financially and emotionally.

Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by our organization nor monitored for accuracy.

We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.

Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque:

• Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
• A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
• A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
• Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
• Parental leave top-up
• Paid Vacation and Days-off

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.