Cyber Resilience Analyst

ShortList Recruitment Limited; Chester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

ShortList Recruitment Limited near Chester is seeking a Cyber Resilience Analyst to join a market-leading business. You will help embed robust recovery and continuity frameworks across the organisation, partnering with technical teams and operational stakeholders to enhance readiness against cyber disruptions.

The role focuses on assessing critical services and priorities, supporting structured incident debriefs, and ensuring resilience is considered in technology and change initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in Cyber Resilience (Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery or Incident Response)
• Able to manage detailed plans across complex environments
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capability
• Strong documentation and reporting skills

Responsibilities

• Assess critical services and infrastructure to determine business impact and recovery priorities
• Support structured incident debriefs and highlight areas for improvement
• Ensure resilience considerations are factored into technology and change initiatives from the outset
• Collaborate with technical teams and operational stakeholders to strengthen readiness against cyber events

Skills

Cyber resilience

Stakeholder communication

Documentation

Tools

Microsoft Azure

VMware

Microsoft Defender

Job description

Permanent | ShortList Recruitment Limited | United Kingdom

Posted On 24/07/2026

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.