Security Disaster Recovery Lead
Posted 2 days ago by Stott and May
£535 Per day
Inside
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Security Disaster Recovery Lead is responsible for implementing actions from BCDR audit findings and developing disaster recovery governance and policy. This role involves maintaining DR plans for critical digital services, leading exercises, and supporting service owners in updating their plans. The position requires collaboration with crisis management and business continuity teams while engaging with external partners during incident response activities.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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.
Key Skills:
- 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.
Salary (Rate): £535 daily
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
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.