Business Continuity Analyst, Principal

GD Information Technology • Albuquerque, NM

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Business Continuity Analyst, Principal serves as the senior technical lead for Continuity of Operations (COOP), disaster recovery, and resiliency planning for enterprise domain administration and identity services. The role ensures Mission Essential Functions dependent on Active Directory, authentication, authorization, multi-factor authentication, public key infrastructure, and related enterprise services can be sustained or restored during system outages, cyber incidents, facility disruptions, or continuity events. The analyst works across business, cybersecurity, infrastructure, network, application, and operations teams to maintain resilient, compliant, and recoverable identity capabilities.

The position leads business continuity and COOP planning, administers and secures enterprise Active Directory and identity services, applies cybersecurity and compliance controls, and develops and validates technical resiliency and recovery strategies. It provides technical leadership for continuity and recovery planning, advises leadership on readiness and mitigation, and mentors junior personnel. The position is onsite in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with less than 10% travel and 40 scheduled weekly hours.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance; ability to obtain Top Secret clearance and eligibility for SCI.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• BA/BS degree or equivalent and 8+ years of experience in enterprise identity administration, Active Directory, cybersecurity, business continuity, COOP, disaster recovery, or related technical disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience conducting Business Impact Analyses, identifying Mission Essential Functions, and developing continuity and recovery strategies.
• Extensive experience with Active Directory Domain Services, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, Windows Server, Active Directory Certificate Services, and domain-controller infrastructure.
• Experience with Active Directory Federation Services, multi-factor authentication, RSA or equivalent authentication platforms, certificate-based authentication, and privileged-access management.
• Experience implementing STIGs, vulnerability remediation, audit logging, compliance documentation, and identity-service recovery procedures.
• Strong technical writing, executive-briefing, cross-functional coordination, and team-leadership skills.
• Able to work onsite; role-specific requirements state 10% travel, while the posting also lists travel as less than 10%.

Responsibilities

• Lead and maintain COOP, business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis-management, and identity-service recovery plans supporting Mission Essential Functions.
• Conduct Business Impact Analyses to identify critical identity dependencies, recovery objectives, operational risks, resource requirements, and single points of failure.
• Develop and test recovery procedures for domain services, authentication platforms, identity infrastructure, certificates, DNS, administrative access, and identity-dependent applications.
• Address loss of facilities, data centers, communications, servers, identity providers, key personnel, network access, and critical vendors through alternate-site, failover, reconstitution, and break-glass procedures.
• Plan and evaluate continuity exercises, recovery tests, alternate-site activations, and COOP events; analyze results and disruptions and drive corrective actions through closure.
• Maintain continuity risk registers, readiness metrics, recovery documentation, recovery-team rosters, and plan-validation records; advise leadership on readiness gaps, recovery priorities, and mitigation actions.
• Administer and secure enterprise Active Directory and identity services, including domain controllers, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, user and privileged accounts, service accounts, delegated administration, and authentication infrastructure.
• Manage and troubleshoot directory replication, Kerberos, LDAP/LDAPS, Service Principal Names, account lockouts, authentication failures, and domain-controller health.
• Implement and maintain identity-security controls, including security baselines, Group Policy, Windows Defender, BitLocker recovery-key escrow, audit policies, certificate deployment, endpoint hardening, privileged-access controls, role-based access, and password-rotation processes.
• Administer multi-factor authentication, federation, and PKI services, including Active Directory Federation Services, RSA authentication, smart card/CAC authentication, certificates, relying-party trusts, claims rules, authentication agents, and certificate lifecycle management.
• Ensure secure identity integration with enterprise applications, databases, network devices, virtualization platforms, cloud services, and cybersecurity tools.
• Maintain identity hygiene by removing stale accounts, obsolete permissions, legacy groups, inactive administrative access, and outdated recovery objects.
• Review Business Impact Analyses, continuity plans, recovery strategies, exercises, risk assessments, and corrective-action plans; mentor junior personnel and lead assigned continuity or resiliency initiatives.
• Apply required security baselines, STIGs, CTOs, POA&Ms, organizational policies, and cybersecurity controls to domain administration and identity services.
• Conduct and support vulnerability assessment, remediation, audit logging, security monitoring, and compliance evidence collection for identity services and dependent systems.
• Configure and validate identity-security logging for authentication activity, privileged access, account and group changes, certificate activity, directory replication, and Group Policy changes.
• Coordinate with cybersecurity teams on centralized log forwarding, SIEM integration, incident response, and investigation of identity-related security events.
• Develop and maintain technical implementation plans, change requests, test and rollback plans, standard operating procedures, and recovery runbooks for identity-service changes.
• Support audits, inspections, assessments, and accreditation activities by providing technical artifacts, compliance documentation, and remediation evidence.
• Develop, document, test, and maintain recovery strategies for domain controllers, DNS, DHCP, federation services, certificate services, authentication managers, and identity-dependent applications.
• Ensure system-state backups, replication recovery, certificate recovery, restore procedures, and alternate-site activation processes are documented and tested against approved recovery objectives.
• Monitor identity-service health, authentication performance, replication status, certificate expiration, account lockouts, privileged-access changes, and domain-controller availability.
• Develop and maintain automation for account provisioning, Active Directory cleanup, compliance validation, certificate reporting, BitLocker validation, service-account monitoring, and identity-service recovery activities.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
• 401(k) with company match
• Competitive pay
• Paid time off
• Medical plan options, including some with Health Savings Accounts
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Vacation, sick and personal time, holiday, paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave
• Short- and long-term disability benefits
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal