IT Disaster Recovery Technical Specialist

IT Disaster Recovery Technical Specialist
Hybrid working: 3 days per week required in the office (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.

• Plan and run Disaster Recovery, failover, and resilience tests end-to-end, including test design, 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 / Operations teams.
• Understand current and emerging security threats.
• Assist and lead in Incident Response investigations and mitigation.

• Hands‑on experience with disaster recovery, failover testing, and operational resilience in IT infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of business continuity and security frameworks (e.g., ISO
  27001, ISO
  23001, 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 (Power Shell 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.