Senior IT Project Manager – Disaster Recovery & Cyber Resilience in Pharma
Employer · Fusion Consulting
IT manager
Cybersecurity specialist
Systems analystFull-timeBudapest
The IT Project Manager is responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of a strategic Disaster Recovery (DR) and cyber resilience program across APAC and Europe. The role focuses on establishing and expanding regional DR capabilities, enabling recovery of business-critical applications, and introducing recovery automation to improve resilience, recovery speed, and failover readiness.
Tasks
- Lead end-to-end delivery of Disaster Recovery and cyber resilience initiatives across multiple regions and sites.
- Manage the establishment of an in-region co-location DR facility, including network connectivity, storage, Nutanix, VMware, firewalls, and application onboarding.
- Coordinate DR enablement and recovery readiness for business-critical applications, including recovery planning, testing, and site failover exercises.
- Drive implementation of Ansible-based recovery automation, including automated technical runbooks and recovery playbooks.
- Manage related cyber resilience initiatives, including Citrix modernization, Azure MFA, malware protection, and remediation of identified security findings.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams across Infrastructure, Network, Security, Applications, Business Continuity, vendors, and regional/site stakeholders.
- Own project planning, budget, resources, dependencies, RAID management, governance, and executive status reporting.
- Ensure DR solutions are successfully tested, documented, transitioned to operations, and capable of meeting defined recovery objectives.
Conditions & benefits
Growth & DevelopmentAccess annual budget for professional development and join regular workshops and trainings.Recognition & RewardReceive a competitive salary and benefits package that reflects your impact, plus referral rewards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of IT project management experience, preferably in Disaster Recovery, infrastructure, cybersecurity, or business continuity projects.
- Strong understanding of Disaster Recovery concepts, business continuity, recovery testing, failover, and enterprise infrastructure.
- Experience in regulated pharmaceutical environments (GxP documentation).
- Experience managing infrastructure projects involving technologies such as VMware, Nutanix, storage, networking, firewalls, and co-location/data center environments.
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation and recovery orchestration; experience with Ansible is highly advantageous.
- Understanding of cybersecurity technologies such as MFA, malware protection, Citrix, and security remediation.
- Proven experience managing global or multi-site projects, technical vendors, risks, budgets, and cross-functional delivery teams.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, governance, and executive reporting skills.
- Fluent business English and ability to collaborate effectively across global teams.