IT Disaster Recovery

G.Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,400 - 61,600; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital organization is seeking an IT Disaster Recovery Lead to spearhead the development of a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy. This role is essential in ensuring the organization can withstand and recover from incidents. You will own the disaster recovery framework, manage data protection strategies, and work closely with IT teams to improve resilience. The position offers a hybrid work model in Manchester with a salary of up to £56k. This is a pivotal role in a complex environment with significant autonomy.

Qualifications

• Strong background in IT risk and governance frameworks.
• Experience aligning to standards like ISO 22301 or working towards NIST.
• Ability to run audits and facilitate workshops.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the IT disaster recovery strategy.
• Define RTOs/RPOs, system criticality, and recovery plans.
• Design and run disaster recovery tests and simulations.

Skills

Understanding of RTO/RPO

IT risk management

Governance frameworks

Compliance standards like ISO 22301

Stakeholder influence

Process improvement

DR tests and simulations

Job description

IT Disaster Recovery Lead | Salary up to £56k | Hybrid (Manchester)

Fancy being a hero?

I need someone to protect critical research, data and services. Someone who can keep the business running if things go wrong!

If you want to own disaster recovery end-to-end (strategy, testing, governance, incidents) then this could absolutely be the role for you 👀

One of our incredible partners are looking to bring in an IT Disaster Recovery Lead to shape frameworks, influence stakeholders and driving resilience at an organisational level

You’ll sit within the InfoSec team meaning you’ll be close to cyber incidents and risk (a very relevant, future proof skillset 😉)

This is absolutely a career-building role, not just a maintenance job.

Why this organization though?

• Complex environment: There's a mix of legacy systems, cloud, research platforms, meaning more interesting technical challenges than a basic corporate setup
• Investment in digital & security: They’re heavily investing into their digital transformation and cyber resilience
• Ownership & Autonomy: This is the first dedicated Disaster Recovery person - you'll define the function from scratch

What you’ll be doing

✨ Owning & building the Disaster Recovery Framework

Develop and implement the university’s IT disaster recovery strategy

Define RTOs/RPOs, system criticality, and recovery plans

Basically you’ll be setting up how the organisation survives outages

Design and run disaster recovery tests and simulations (cyber attacks, system failures, data loss)

Identify gaps and drive improvements

✨ Managing the Backup & Data Protection Strategy

Oversee backup, restore, and data integrity processes across cloud/on-prem

Ensure data is secure, recoverable, and compliant (e.g. GDPR)

Work with IT + business teams to assess resilience and risk

Feed into risk registers, audits, and compliance (ISO / NIST)

Act as the go-to expert for recovery during incidents

What you’ll bring

• Understanding of RTO/RPO, backups, and recovery processes
• Strong background in IT risk, governance frameworks, and compliance
• Experience aligning to standards like ISO 22301 / working towards NIST
• Experience influencing stakeholders and running workshops / audits
• Experience setting up or improving processes, frameworks, or testing programmes
• Running DR tests / simulations / audits and driving improvements

If you want to take ownership of a critical resilience function and build something from the ground up, I’d love to hear from you!

IT Disaster Recovery Lead | Salary up to £56k | Hybrid (Manchester)