Platform Recovery Lead: Resilience & Digital Continuity

EDF UK; Gloucester; Hybrid; 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

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.