Platform Recovery Lead

EDF UK; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Electric vehicle leasing

Discounted gym membership

Life assurance

Tech vouchers

Experience days

Job summary

EDF, based in the United Kingdom, is seeking a Platform Recovery Lead within the Enterprise Platform team. You will ensure technology services are resilient and capable of withstanding disruptions, reporting to the Enterprise Product Manager.

The role covers recovery plans, runbooks, risk monitoring, and collaboration with engineering, security, and business units. Hybrid work with some UK travel; security clearance requirement.

Qualifications

• Detail‑oriented with strong analytical skills and the ability to translate technical information into structured recovery documentation.
• Proven experience of IT disaster recovery, digital recovery, operational resilience, or IT service continuity.
• Hands‑on experience with operational resilience frameworks, impact tolerance setting and scenario testing.
• Familiarity with on‑premise and cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), infrastructure resilience patterns and enterprise architecture principles.
• Ability to lead cross‑functional response activities and influence senior stakeholders.
• Certifications such as ITIL, ISO 22301, CISSP, CISM, or Cloud Architecture qualifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain IT digital recovery plans aligned to architectural standards.
• Maintain and assure recovery runbooks and technical recovery procedures for critical infrastructure and application services.
• Raise and monitor recovery risks and support mitigation planning with business continuity leads and Enterprise product managers and owners.
• Work with Enterprise product teams and business units to ensure recovery capabilities meet service level requirements.
• Assist with continuous improvement of testing methods, ensuring alignment with regulatory and industry expectations.
• Engage with senior stakeholders across a federated business model to ensure resilience priorities are understood and supported.
• Engage with business units to understand their service priorities and recovery readiness including regular testing regimes.

Skills

IT disaster recovery

Digital recovery

Operational resilience

IT service continuity

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Azure

AWS

Job description

• Primary Contractual Location: Gloucester Business Park
• Term of Employment: Permanent

Job Description

Working in our Enterprise IT function you’ll be supporting our business to deliver their priorities and objectives. You’ll be contributing to Helping Britain Achieve Net Zero. We understand our business needs and provide specialist advice and knowledge to mitigate risk and maximise success. We are exemplar and act with integrity in a challenging but rewarding environment.

We are seeking someone with passion, skills and experience to help our Platform Recovery team strengthen our ability to recover technology services.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Enterprise Product Manager in the Enterprise Platform team, the Platform Recovery Lead will play a key role ensuring our technology services are resilient, recoverable and capable of withstanding disruptions.

Our Platform Recovery practise shapes and drives our digital recovery strategy across complex platforms, cloud environments, and critical business services. The team collaborates closely with colleagues in engineering, security, service management, business units and product teams to coordinate recovery activities and improve enterprise-wide readiness.

If you are enthusiastic about resilience and want to make a difference to our organisational stability and performance, this is an exciting opportunity to take a leading role in strengthening our digital future.

This is hybrid working role, that balances time at home and on site to support collaboration and delivery. There will therefore be occasional travel to our offices within the UK.

Who You Are

• To be successful in this role you’ll be detail‑oriented with strong analytical skills and the ability to analyse technical information to translate into structured recovery documentation.
• You’ll have proven experience of IT disaster recovery, digital recovery, operational resilience, or IT service continuity.
• Hands‑on experience with operational resilience frameworks, impact tolerance setting and scenario testing.
• Familiarity with on‑premise and cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), infrastructure resilience patterns and enterprise architecture principles.
• Ability to lead cross‑functional response activities and influence senior stakeholders.
• Ideally, you’ll have certifications such as ITIL, ISO 22301, CISSP, CISM, or Cloud Architecture qualifications.
• Working collaboratively with the wider Enterprise Platform team and business colleagues to create a great place to work.
• You’re committed to health, safety, wellbeing and the environment, and carry out your role in a manner that enables us to be a sustainable business – financially, environmentally and socially.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Clearance (SC), which will ordinarily require you to have British residency for the last five years.

What You’ll Be Doing

• You’ll support the development and maintenance of IT digital recovery plans, ensuring documentation is accurate, complete, and aligned to architectural standards.
• You’ll maintain and assure recovery runbooks and technical recovery procedures for critical infrastructure and application services.
• You’ll raise and monitor recovery related risks and support mitigation planning with business continuity leads and Enterprise product managers and owners.
• You’ll work with Enterprise product teams and business units to ensure recovery capabilities meet service level requirements.
• You’ll assist with continuous improvement of testing methods, ensuring alignment with regulatory and industry expectations.
• You’ll engage with senior stakeholders across a federated business model to ensure resilience priorities are understood and supported.
• You’ll engage with business units to understand their service priorities and recovery readiness including regular testing regimes.

Pay, Benefits and Culture

Alongside a competitive salary, potential for an annual bonus, and a market‑leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days and more.

At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that’s unique to you. Here, Success is Personal – it’s your journey, powered by us.

Everyone is welcome at EDF; we’re committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments.

Join us and find your success at EDF!

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