Cyber Resilience & Continuity Analyst (Hybrid)

ShortList Recruitment Limited; Chester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; 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 for disruptive cyber events.

The role focuses on assessing critical services, determining recovery priorities, supporting incident debriefs, and ensuring resilience is built into change initiatives.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Assess critical services and infrastructure to determine business impact and recovery priorities.
• Support structured incident debriefs and lessons learned.
• Highlight areas for improvement within existing controls.
• Ensure resilience considerations are factored into technology and change initiatives from the outset.

Skills

Cyber resilience

Stakeholder management

Planning and project

Communication skills

IT systems knowledge

Documentation

Azure recovery

VMware exposure

Defender tools

Risk communication

Tools

Azure

VMware

Microsoft Defender

Job description

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 for disruptive cyber events.

The role focuses on assessing critical services, determining recovery priorities, supporting incident debriefs, and ensuring resilience is built into change initiatives.