2764 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Requirements
Must:
- Hands-on experience with disaster recovery, failover testing, and operational resilience in IT infrastructure.
- Solid understanding of business continuity and security frameworks (e.g. ISO27001, ISO23001, NIST) and how to evidence controls.
- Experience producing and maintaining high-quality technical documentation and runbooks.
- Proficiency with infrastructure tooling and at least one scripting language (PowerShell or Python preferred).
- Understanding of hyperconverged infrastructure, preferably with Nutanix, VMWare, Commvault, and hybrid cloud infrastructure (Azure or similar).
- Knowledge of vulnerability management, monitoring/alerting, and automation/orchestration platforms.
Responsibilities
- Plan and run Disaster Recovery, failover, and resilience tests end-to-end, including test design, leading its orchestration and execution, evidence capture, and reporting.
- Validate Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) through realistic testing.
- Ensure Disaster Recovery runbooks, procedures, and evidence packs are accurate, up-to-date, and practical.
- Work with Engineers to automate recovery testing and evidence collection where feasible (e.g. scripting, orchestration tools).
- Act as the primary technical liaison with the Business Continuity Planning (BCP) team.
- Maintain a central log of resilience activities, including issues, actions, and progress against remediation targets.
- Identify vulnerabilities in hardware and software to be remediated by Engineering and Operations teams.
- Understand current and emerging security threats.
- Assist and lead in Incident Response investigations and mitigation.
Description
We are looking for an IT Disaster Recovery Lead to join our team in a hybrid working environment, requiring 3 days per week in our City of London office. In this role, you will plan and execute Disaster Recovery and resilience testing, driving remediation activities through to closure while ensuring that evidence and documentation meet client, regulatory, and audit standards. Youll collaborate directly with our infrastructure and security teams to address issues and document processes. Join us for an opportunity to make a significant impact in our organization while benefiting from a supportive team culture.
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The company with most openings is Experis as they are hiring for 84 different DevOps jobs in the UK. They are probably quite committed to find good DevOps.