Head of Digital Resilience and Business Continuity (BCDR)

Inspire People; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Civil Service pension with employer 28

25 days annual leave, rising to 30

Public holidays + privilege leave

Learning and development leave

Paid volunteering leave

Wellbeing programmes

Job summary

The Insolvency Service, in partnership with Inspire People, seeks a Head of Digital Resilience and Business Continuity (BCDR) to lead strategy and delivery across Azure environments, ensuring essential public services remain available during major disruptions. The role offers flexible hybrid working and is based in the UK, including Birmingham and other locations.

You will own the agency-wide BCDR roadmap, design ASR disaster recovery, and drive resilience with suppliers in a highly regulated

Qualifications

• Experience owning cloud-based business continuity and disaster recovery for critical public-facing services.
• Proven ability design and implement ASR across multi-subscription Azure environments.
• Strong track record meeting RTO/RPO targets and leading testing programmes.

Responsibilities

• Own agency-wide BCDR strategy and roadmap.
• Design and deliver Azure-to-Azure disaster recovery capabilities using ASR.
• Establish disaster recovery-ready networking, identity and infrastructure in secondary regions.
• Lead recovery testing programmes, tabletop exercises, failover testing and full rehearsals.
• Define and assure supplier and third-party resilience requirements across managed services.

Skills

BCDR strategy

Governance & risk management

Disaster recovery planning

Tools

Azure Site Recovery (ASR)

Job description

Protect the resilience of critical public services relied upon by individuals, businesses and the wider UK economy. The Insolvency Service, in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Head of Digital Resilience and Business Continuity (BCDR) with expertise in Azure Site Recovery (ASR), cloud disaster recovery, business continuity, cyber resilience and governance. Based in Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Exeter, Ipswich, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Nottingham on a permanent Grade 7 appointment, this role offers flexible hybrid working and a salary of £57,367 to £63,319 (National).

Building Digital Resilience Across the Insolvency Service

Insolvency Service is modernising its resilience posture and establishing an agency-wide Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery capability. This role will lead the strategy, delivery and assurance of disaster recovery across multiple Azure environments and suppliers, ensuring essential public services remain available during major disruptions including cyber incidents, infrastructure failures and other critical events.

As a Head of Digital Resilience and Business Continuity (BCDR), you will:

• Own the agency-wide BCDR strategy and roadmap
• Design and deliver Azure-to-Azure disaster recovery capabilities using Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
• Establish disaster recovery-ready networking, identity and infrastructure in secondary regions
• Lead recovery testing programmes, including tabletop exercises, failover testing and full rehearsals
• Define and assure supplier and third-party resilience requirements across managed services

Essential skills for the Head of Digital Resilience and Business Continuity (BCDR) include:

• Proven ownership of cloud-based business continuity and disaster recovery for mission-critical or public-facing services
• Expertise designing and implementing Azure Site Recovery (ASR) solutions across multi-subscription environments
• Strong experience defining and achieving RTO and RPO targets
• Knowledge of recovery plans, runbook automation and non-disruptive failover testing

Desirable skills for the Head of Digital Resilience and Business Continuity (BCDR) include:

• Advanced Azure Site Recovery implementation experience
• Azure Recovery Services and backup platform expertise
• CISSP certification
• Extensive ISO 27001 experience
• Knowledge of government business continuity audit requirements
• Experience working within central government or highly regulated environments

In return, you can expect a flexible working culture, including:

• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
• Flexi-time working
• Civil Service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days with service
• Public holidays plus privilege leave
• Five days dedicated learning and development leave
• Five days paid volunteering leave
• Enhanced family-friendly policies
• Employee wellbeing and assistance programmes
• Access to a range of employee networks and communities

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to build and lead a resilience capability that protects nationally important public services. You'll shape how the Insolvency Service prepares for, responds to and recovers from major disruptions, influencing resilience strategy across cloud platforms, suppliers and business operations. Working at the intersection of technology, security and governance, you'll play a pivotal role in safeguarding essential services and driving long-term digital resilience across the organisation.