An indication that one or more program operations have been interrupted as a result of a read operation can be received at a first controller component associated with a memory sub-system. Context data associated with interrupted program operations can be received at the first controller component. A control sequence based on the context data can be generated at the first controller component. The control sequence can indicate how a second controller component associated with the memory sub-system interacts with a memory component of the memory sub-system to perform the read operation and to resume the interrupted program operations. The control sequence can further specify one or more additional operations that are associated with copying data of the interrupted program operations between first and second memory locations of the memory component. The control sequence can be provided to the second controller component.