Cyber Recovery Lead – Resilience & DR Expert

Sanderson

West Midlands

Hybrid

GBP 100,000 - 145,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Sanderson is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead for a 6‑month cyber recovery programme in the West Midlands. You will own technical delivery across backup, disaster recovery, cyber resilience and wider operational resilience, guiding architecture, design and implementation.

You’ll lead design reviews, manage third‑party partners, and drive recovery testing with a focus on governance and delivery quality. On-site weekly, supporting a critical financial services programme.

Qualifications

Significant hands-on experience leading infrastructure build and cyber resilience initiatives.
Strong skills in high/low level design development and assurance.
Experience with enterprise backup, DR, virtualization and cloud tech.
Proven third-party technical leadership and delivery assurance.
Experience with recovery testing and sign-off.
Ability to set direction and governance while supporting build and issue resolution.
Familiarity with Cohesity, NetBackup, Zerto, Azure or MS 365.
Knowledge of ISO 22301, ISO 27001, NIST or CAF.

Responsibilities

Act as the technical lead for cyber resilience, backup and recovery; own technical delivery.
Lead design reviews and drive decisions through architecture governance forums.
Lead design, build, configuration, integration, testing and implementation; produce HR/LLD and runbooks.
Direct internal teams, suppliers and delivery partners; challenge designs to meet standards.
Define recovery sequencing; manage dependencies, risks and issues with the PM/BA.
Lead technical execution of recovery testing through to acceptance and sign-off.
Ensure operational readiness, knowledge transfer and service transition.
Provide concise technical status and risk updates for programme reporting.