Job description
Security Disaster Recovery Lead
*candidates require an active SC clearance to be considered*
Start: ASAP
Duration: 6 months +
Location: 2 days per month in London OR Birmingham
Rate: £500-535 per day (inside IR35)
Overview
- Implement actions arising from recent BCDR audit findings.
- Develop and support high-level disaster recovery governance and policy.
- Identify, collate and maintain DR plans for critical digital services.
- Lead and facilitate tabletop exercises, wargames and scenario testing.
- Support service owners in developing and updating DR plans, ensuring dependencies and priorities are accurately captured.
- Maintain and enhance organisational DR frameworks and associated standards.
- Work alongside crisis management, resilience and business continuity teams.
- Support live incident response and recovery activities, engaging with external partners as required
Skills Required
- Expert-level resilience knowledge, including cyber and digital resilience, with strong understanding of global standards (NIST, ISO).
- Extensive experience in business continuity and disaster recovery functions.
- Strong planning skills with proven ability to deliver across complex, multi-stream resilience environments.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of influencing senior stakeholders and clearly articulating risks, issues and resilience maturity.
- Experience contributing to governance forums and resilience working groups.
- Understanding of incident response frameworks and crisis management structures.
- Familiarity with business continuity planning frameworks, business impact assessments and DR lifecycle processes.
