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IT Resilience and Disaster Recovery Specialist
£95,000 - 95,000
DGH Recruitment
Charing Cross, London
£95,000 - 95,000
Requirements
Must:
- I have hands-on experience with disaster recovery, failover testing, and operational resilience in IT infrastructure.
- I possess a solid understanding of business continuity and security frameworks (e.g., ISO27001, ISO23001, NIST) and know how to evidence controls.
- I have experience producing and maintaining high-quality technical documentation and runbooks.
- I am proficient with infrastructure tooling and at least one scripting language (PowerShell or Python preferred).
- I understand hyperconverged infrastructure, preferably with Nutanix, VMware, Commvault, and hybrid cloud infrastructure (Azure or similar).
- I have knowledge of vulnerability management, monitoring/alerting, and automation/orchestration platforms.
Responsibilities
- I will plan and run Disaster Recovery, failover, and resilience tests end-to-end, including test design, leading its orchestration and execution, evidence capture, and reporting.
- I will validate Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) through realistic testing.
- I will ensure Disaster Recovery runbooks, procedures, and evidence packs are accurate, up-to-date, and practical.
- I will work with Engineers to automate recovery testing and evidence collection where feasible (e.g., scripting, orchestration tools).
- I will act as the primary technical liaison with the Business Continuity Planning (BCP) team.
- I will maintain a central log of resilience activities, including issues, actions, and progress against remediation targets.
- I will identify vulnerabilities in hardware and software to be remediated by Engineering/Operations teams.
- I will understand current and emerging security threats.
- I will assist and lead in Incident Response investigations and mitigation.
Description
I am offering a hybrid working environment, requiring 3 days a week in the office located in the City of London. The successful candidate will plan and execute Disaster Recovery and resilience testing, drive remediation activities through to closure, and ensure that evidence and documentation meet client, regulatory, and audit standards. This is not a purely administrative role; the successful candidate will work directly with infrastructure and security teams to fix issues as well as document them.
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