Head of Digital Resilience & Cloud Disaster Recovery

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

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