Cyber Resilience Analyst

Zohorecruit; Chester; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Shortlist Recruitment Limited in Chester is seeking a Cyber Resilience Analyst to join a market-leading business. You will help embed recovery and continuity frameworks across the organisation, partnering with technical and operational teams.

You will assess services to determine business impact and recovery priorities, support incident debriefs, and ensure resilience is factored into technology and change initiatives from the outset.

Qualifications

• Experience in Cyber Resilience (Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery or Incident Response)
• Ability to manage detailed plans across complex environments
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Strong understanding of enterprise IT systems and infrastructure
• Strong documentation and reporting skills
• Experience with Azure backup and recovery services
• Exposure to VMware technologies
• Familiarity with Defender tools
• Comfort communicating risk to non-technical audiences

Responsibilities

• Embed recovery and continuity frameworks across the organisation.
• Partner with technical and operational teams to enhance readiness and response to disruptive cyber events.
• Assess critical services and infrastructure to determine business impact and recovery priorities.
• Support structured incident debriefs and post-event reviews.
• Highlight areas for improvement within existing controls and processes.
• Ensure resilience considerations are factored into technology and change initiatives from the outset.

Skills

Cyber Resilience

Project Planning

Stakeholder Management

IT Infrastructure

Documentation

Azure Recovery

VMware

Microsoft Defender

Risk Communication

Tools

Microsoft Azure

VMware

Microsoft Defender

Job description

Permanent | ShortList Recruitment Limited | United Kingdom

Posted On 28/09/2026

Job Information

Job Opening ID 4702

IT & Internet

DOE

City Chester

Province Cheshire

Postal Code CH1

Job Description

Cyber Resilience Analyst

Salary DOE

Chester

Shortlist Recruitment are looking for a Cyber Resilience Analyst to join a market-leading business based near Chester.

This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of an evolving security and governance team, helping to embed robust recovery and continuity frameworks across the organisation. You’ll partner with both technical teams and operational stakeholders to enhance the company’s readiness and response to disruptive cyber events.

The Cyber Resilience Analyst will assess critical services and infrastructure to determine business impact and recovery priorities, support structured incident debriefs, highlight areas for improvement within existing controls and ensure resilience considerations are factored into technology and change initiatives from the outset.

• Experience in Cyber Resilience (Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery or Incident Response)
  
• Ability to manage detailed plans and work across complex environments
  
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capability
  
• Good understanding of enterprise IT systems and infrastructure
  
• Strong documentation and reporting skills
  
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, particularly recovery and backup services
  
• Exposure to VMware technologies
  
• Familiarity with Microsoft Defender tools
  
• Comfort communicating technical risk to non-technical audiences
  

The Cyber Resilience Analyst role comes with a range of industry leading benefits and a competitive salary depending on experience.

The role is based near Chester and offers hybrid working. It is commutable from Liverpool, Wirral, Runcorn, Warrington and North Wales.