BCDR; Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Specialist

Position: BCDR (Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery) Specialist
Business Continutiy and Disaster Recovery Specialist
Inside IR35
Hybrid
- Reading 2 Days Per Week

The BCDR Specialist will provide expert guidance, assessment, and hands on support to ensure the resilience, recoverability, and operational continuity of a complex solution platform, including AI-driven components, orchestration layers, data services, and third party integrations. The specialist will evaluate existing architectures, processes, and controls, remediate gaps, and deliver evidence suitable for internal governance, audit, and regulatory review.

Key Responsibilities

Availability & Resilience Assurance
Assess the platform’s ability to meet defined availability, resilience, and service continuity requirements.
Validate clear and defensible RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) definitions aligned to business criticality.
Review architectural decisions and operational controls related to high availability, failover, redundancy, and disaster recovery.
Risk & Failure Mode Identification
Identify single points of failure across the end-to-end solution, covering:
AI agents and inference services
Orchestration and workflow engines
Data pipelines, storage, and backup strategies
Cloud services, APIs, and 3rd party dependencies
Conduct structured failure analysis and propose mitigation strategies.
BC/DR Planning & Documentation
Evaluate and enhance BC/DR plans, procedures, and supporting documentation.
Ensure runbooks are complete, actionable, and test-ready, including steps covering:
AI specific failure modes
Model or agent recovery
Reintegration of data services and dependent workloads
Produce updated BC/DR playbooks suitable for both technical and operational audiences.
Testing & Validation
Design and oversee BC/DR testing, including failover, restore, and resilience simulations.
Validate backup and restore integrity, especially for ML/AI model artefacts and metadata.
Ensure testing meets organisational policy, industry standards, and regulatory expectations.
Governance, Audit & Regulatory Evidence
Produce credible resilience evidence to satisfy governance, audit, risk management, and compliance functions.
Contribute to submission materials for internal approvals prior to production deployment.
Map controls to applicable frameworks (e.g., ISO 22301, FCA/PRA operational resilience guidelines, NIST, cloud provider best practices).
Deliverables
Resilience Assurance Report identifying compliance against RTO/RPO and availability requirements.
Single Points of Failure Register with remediation plan.
Updated BC/DR Plans and Technical Runbooks (AI-inclusive).
Test Plan & Test Evidence Pack covering DR scenarios and outcomes.
Production Readiness Resilience Pack for governance/audit sign off.
Recommendations for architectural or operational improvements.
Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise
Proven experience delivering BCDR programmes within cloud-native or hybrid cloud environments (Azure/AWS/GCP).
Strong understanding of:
High availability architectures
Data backup/restore strategies
Distributed systems resilience
AI/ML operationalisation considerations
Orchestration platforms (Kubernetes/Microservices/Serverless)

Experience with resilience features of major cloud providers (regions, zones, failover models, managed services).
BC/DR & Risk Management
 
Demonstrable experience building, testing, and assuring BC/DR frameworks.
Knowledge of industry standards such as ISO 22301, ISO 27031, NIST SP 800 34, and UK regulatory expectations for operational resilience.
Track record of delivering resilience artefacts for audit and risk review.

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