Quick overview
Job description
Duration - 6 months, with extension expected
Location – West Midlands – Once a week on site
The opportunity:
Our client, a leading financial services organisation, is strengthening its ability to withstand and recover from major technology failures, cyber incidents and operational disruption. This high-profile, business-critical programme covers backup, disaster recovery, cyber recovery and wider operational resilience.
They are looking for a hands‑on Technical Lead to own the technical delivery of the Cyber Recovery Programme. You will combine technical authority and governance with real involvement in design, build and troubleshooting, setting the direction and getting into the detail.
What you’ll be doing:
- Acting as the technical lead for cyber resilience, backup and recovery, accountable for technical delivery and outcomes
- Leading design reviews and driving decisions through architecture and design‑governance forums
- Leading and contributing to solution design, build, configuration, integration, testing and implementation, producing HLDs, LLDs, playbooks and runbooks
- Directing internal teams, suppliers and delivery partners and challenging their designs and outputs to make sure quality and recovery standards are met
- Defining recovery sequencing and managing dependencies, risks and issues alongside the Programme Manager and Business Analysts
- Leading the technical execution of recovery testing through to acceptance and sign-off
- Ensuring operational readiness, knowledge transfer and service transition are complete and accepted by operational teams
- Providing concise technical status and risk updates to support programme reporting
About you:
- Significant hands‑on experience leading infrastructure build, cyber resilience, backup, disaster recovery or business continuity initiatives, from design through to testing and operational handover
- Strong infrastructure solution design skills, including HLD and LLD development and assurance
- Practical experience of enterprise backup, DR, virtualisation and cloud technologies
- Proven third‑party technical leadership and delivery assurance
- Experience of recovery testing, technical acceptance and sign-off
- Confident operating at both lead and practitioner level, setting direction and governance while producing designs, supporting build and resolving technical issues
- Experience with one or more of Cohesity, NetBackup, Zerto, Microsoft Hyper‑V, Azure or Microsoft 365
- Knowledge of ISO 22301, ISO 27001, NIST or CAF
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