Cybersecurity Staff Analyst - Disaster Recovery (Remote)

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

The Cybersecurity team at Home Depot protects the organization’s systems, data, and technology assets through proactive risk management, strong operational controls, and rapid incident response. This role supports core security functions by ensuring the resilience of critical systems and maintaining accurate oversight of technology assets across the enterprise.

Key Focus Areas:

• Disaster Recovery:
  • Support planning, execution, and testing of disaster recovery procedures to ensure business continuity.
  • Partner cybersecurity teams to validate recovery readiness and close any identified gaps.
• Technology Asset Management:
  • Maintain visibility of hardware and software assets across the enterprise to reduce security risk.
  • Ensure assets are properly tracked, compliant, and aligned with lifecycle and vulnerability management processes.

Protecting what matters most to our associates and consumers by securing our sensitive data and critical assets from current and emerging threats. At The Home Depot Cybersecurity consists of Architecture, Governance, Identity & Access Management, Internal Threat Operations, Issue and Compliance Management, Risk Assessment/Advisory, Security Consulting, Security Operations and Strategic Planning.

Key Responsibilities:

• 100% Deliver Execution, Plans & Aligns, Develop Others - Oversee multiple projects simultaneously; Strategic partner to align solutions to customers expectations Communicate to various levels of business partners; Collaborate with stakeholders, business partners, colleagues, developers and others to deliver high quality solutions; Partner cross-functionally to define assess, communicate, implement, train and change management of projects; Lead, mentor and provide guidance to team members and partners; Serve as SME and perform research/analysis within assigned projects

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position typically reports to Manager or Sr. Manager
• This position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• No travel required.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• DR Architecture Proficiency – Strong working knowledge of modern, highly available IT architectures, including multi-cloud environments (GCP, Azure, AWS), active/active-passive deployments, microservices, general networking, and how these impact RTO and RPO.
• Cyber Fundamentals – Solid understanding of modern cybersecurity threats and how disaster recovery acts as an ultimate safety net for cyber incident response.
• Cross-Functional Influence – Demonstrated ability to lead, consult, and influence cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority.
• Program Governance – Experience developing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise-wide DR policies, tiering frameworks, standards, and compliance reporting.
• Executive Communication – Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical recovery concepts and risk scenarios into clear, business aligned language for senior leadership.
• BIA and Risk Assessment - Hands on experience leading and executing comprehensive Business Impact Analysis and technology risk assessments, mapping complex application dependencies.
• DR Testing - Experience planning, facilitating, and managing the lifecycle of DR testing – ranging from tabletop exercises, full scale failover, and restoration tests.
• Ability to mentor and guide Senior and mid-level analysts in BIA execution, risk assessment, and cross-functional communication.
• Hold at least one foundational industry certification in disaster recovery, business continuity, or security (CISSP, CISA, CRISC)

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 8

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Action Oriented
• Collaborates
• Drives Engagement
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Drives Results
• Manages Conflict

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