Platform Recovery Lead - Hybrid - Gloucester, UK

EDF Energy; Cheltenham; Hybride; GBP 70 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary

Annual bonus potential

Market-leading pension scheme

Electric vehicle leasing

Discounted gym membership

Life assurance

Tech vouchers

Experience days and more

Résumé du poste

EDF Energy is recruiting for a Platform Recovery Lead within our Enterprise IT function. You will help strengthen our digital recovery strategy across complex platforms, cloud environments, and critical services, reporting to the Enterprise Product Manager in the Platform team.

You will develop and maintain recovery plans, runbooks and testing regimes, working closely with engineering, security, service management and business units to ensure resilience and readiness across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience in IT disaster recovery or operational resilience.
• Ability to translate technical information into structured recovery documentation.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration with senior stakeholders.

Responsabilités

• Develop and maintain IT digital recovery plans aligned to standards.
• Maintain recovery runbooks and procedures for critical services.
• Identify and monitor recovery risks and contribute to mitigation plans.
• Ensure recovery capabilities meet service level requirements across platforms.
• Improve testing methods in line with regulatory expectations.
• Engage senior stakeholders to align resilience priorities across the business.
• Collaborate with enterprise product teams to enhance recovery readiness.

Connaissances

Disaster recovery

Operational resilience

Risk monitoring

Stakeholder management

Regulatory awareness

Formation

ITIL Certification

ISO 22301 Certification

Cloud Architecture Qualifications

Outils

Azure

AWS

On-premises infrastructure

Enterprise architecture

Description du poste

Working in our Enterprise IT function youll be supporting our business to deliver their priorities and objectives. Youll 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

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

Requirements

• To be successful in this role youll be detailoriented with strong analytical skills and the ability to analyse technical information to translate into structured recovery documentation.
• Youll 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, youll 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.

Youre 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.

Benefits

• competitive salary
• potential for an annual bonus
• marketleading pension scheme
• electric vehicle leasing
• discounted gym membership
• life assurance
• tech vouchers
• experience days and more

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Closing date: Friday 16th October

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