IT Resilience & Cyber Recovery Lead

Burberry; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Burberry is seeking an IT Resilience Manager to safeguard our technology services against disruption. You will lead policy, planning, testing, and governance across IT resilience, cyber recovery and backup programmes, partnering with cyber security, risk, and business continuity teams.

You’ll define minimum recovery requirements, oversee annual resilience exercises and provide clear reporting to senior leadership on gaps, actions and progress.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in IT disaster recovery, resilience, technology risk or business continuity.
• Strong understanding of IT resilience, cyber resilience, disaster recovery and backup requirements across hybrid cloud and on‑premise environments.
• Experience reviewing service‑level recovery plans, test evidence and resilience controls against policy and standards.
• Experience leading resilience exercises across multiple services, teams and suppliers.
• Ability to present resilience posture, risks and improvement actions clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Familiarity with cyber‑led disruption scenarios including ransomware, data loss and major service outages.
• Certifications such as BCI, ISO 22301, ISO 27001, ITIL or equivalent are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a view of critical business services and dependencies, ensuring recovery priorities and resilience reflect business impact.
• Maintain the IT Resilience policy framework and related policies (Cyber Resilience, IT Disaster Recovery, IT Backups).
• Define minimum requirements for recovery planning, backup arrangements, resilience controls, testing, evidence and reporting.
• Address cyber-led disruption scenarios and ensure plans cover ransomware and data loss.
• Review ITDR plans and test outcomes for alignment with policy, standards and recovery requirements.
• Oversee the annual IT resilience and cyber recovery exercise across services and suppliers.
• Conduct monthly assurance reviews of recovery plans, backup status, resilience controls, testing and remediation actions.
• Maintain resilience reporting for critical technology services including test status and remediation progress.
• Ensure owners, actions and target dates exist for resilience gaps and recovery improvements.
• Provide guidance on resilience requirements for service design, architecture and supplier obligations.
• Collaborate with Cyber Security Operations and IT Risk to address cyber recovery capabilities.
• Align ITDR and resilience planning with wider business continuity programs.

Skills

IT resilience

IT disaster recovery

technology risk

business continuity

resilience assurance

hybrid cloud

on-premise

recovery testing

governance & reporting

cyber resilience

backup requirements

cross-team collaboration

ISO/BCI/ITIL certifications

Job description

Burberry is seeking an IT Resilience Manager to safeguard our technology services against disruption. You will lead policy, planning, testing, and governance across IT resilience, cyber recovery and backup programmes, partnering with cyber security, risk, and business continuity teams.

You’ll define minimum recovery requirements, oversee annual resilience exercises and provide clear reporting to senior leadership on gaps, actions and progress.