Service Continuity, Disaster Recovery Specialist, Hybrid

Risk & Disaster Recovery, Business, Continuity, Service ContinuityLeading UK business based in LondonUp to £750 per day (Umbrella engagement)Hybrid working (3 days on site)

Our client, a successful and well known UK business is looking to hire a Risk and Disaster Recovery specialist.

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and executing an IT disaster recovery (including risk management strategy) for enterprise infrastructure. You will also plan for ongoing maintenance.

You will also ensure our clients IT infrastructure and services remain resilient and recoverable in the event of disruption.

In depth expertise in ITIL frameworks is essential. Previous experience in disaster recovery planning and risk management is also essential. The ability to work closely with business, technical and vendor stakeholders.

Engagement via Umbrella Company Only; all taxes & NI deducted at source.

General responsibilities: -

• Define / maintain IT disaster recovery framework ensuring alignment with business continuity objectives.
• Conduct risk assessments of existing infrastructure services enabling identification of mitigation strategies.
• Develop and document disaster recovery plans and runbooks.
• Manage and run regular Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Compliance with ITIL best practices for risk and recovery management.
• Collaborate with service owners, dept. heads and vendors to ensure new DR processes are built into future designs.
• Advise incident and problem management teams in identifying risk-related root causes.
• Advise stakeholders with regular reporting on risk exposure, Disaster Recovery readiness and general performance.

Skills & Experience required:

• Proven and in depth experience in business continuity, IT disaster recovery & risk management leadership.
• Strong knowledge of ITIL.
• Relevant experience developing and implementing DR plans in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Infrastructure resilience and failover strategies.
• Ability to engage with senior stakeholders
• ITIL v4 certification
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements for IT risk and resilience e.g. ISO 22301, ISO 27001
• Experience working in highly regulated environments.

Reasonable Adjustments:

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