Technology Resilience Lead

Ageas UK; Eastleigh, Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Working

Health Insurance

Annual Bonus

Pension & Savings

Wellbeing activities

Job summary

Ageas UK is seeking a hands‑on Technology Resilience Lead to become the go‑to SME for resilience, disaster recovery and capacity management across our technology estate. You will work across AWS, Azure and on‑premise environments to ensure services remain resilient and recoverable.

This newly created role lets you shape the resilience function and influence strategy. As part of the role, you’ll collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, architecture and security teams to drive practical

Qualifications

• Experience in technology operations, infrastructure, cloud, application support, platform engineering or a related discipline.
• Practical understanding of disaster recovery, service continuity and technology resilience.
• Experience working with critical or highly available technology services.
• Strong stakeholder management to engage with technical and business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own disaster recovery planning, testing and recovery readiness across critical technology services.
• Lead resilience testing and simulation exercises to validate recovery capabilities and identify weaknesses.
• Monitor capacity, performance and service dependencies, proactively reducing resilience risks.
• Drive resilience improvements across AWS, Azure and on‑premise infrastructure environments.
• Provide expert guidance, reporting and stakeholder engagement to support DORA, operational resilience and risk requirements.

Skills

Tech operations

Infrastructure

Cloud

Site Reliability Engineering

Stakeholder management

Disaster recovery

Job description

Job Title: Technology Resilience Lead

Target Start Date: ASAP

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary Range: £54,400 - £81,600

Location: Home Worker, with monthly trips to either Eastleigh or London

Closing Date for applications: Friday 2nd October

Technology Resilience Lead: We're looking for a hands‑on Technology Resilience Lead to become the go‑to SME for resilience, disaster recovery and capacity management across our technology estate. Working across AWS, Azure and traditional data centre environments, you'll play a critical role in ensuring our services remain resilient, recoverable and fit for the future.

This is a newly created position, giving you the opportunity to shape the resilience function, influence strategy and make the role your own. You'll work across infrastructure, cloud, architecture and security teams to drive practical resilience improvements and embed best practice.

Main Responsibilities as Technology Resilience Lead

• Own disaster recovery planning, testing and recovery readiness across critical technology services.
• Lead resilience testing and simulation exercises to validate recovery capabilities and identify weaknesses
• Monitor capacity, performance and service dependencies, proactively reducing resilience risks.
• Drive resilience improvements across AWS, Azure and on‑premise infrastructure environments.
• .Provide expert guidance, reporting and stakeholder engagement to support DORA, operational resilience and risk requirements.

Skills and experience you need as a Technology Resilience Lead

• Experience in technology operations, infrastructure, cloud, application support, platform engineering, site reliability engineering or a related discipline.
• Practical understanding of disaster recovery, service continuity and technology resilience.
• Experience working with critical or highly available technology services.
• You’ll use your strong stakeholder management skills to engage with technical and business leaders, and ensure our critical services can withstand and recover from disruption when it matters most
• Ability to communicate technology risks and findings clearly.

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas

• Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part‑time/job‑shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
• Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.
• Supporting your Wealth- 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
• Supporting you at Work- Well‑being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
• Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non‑pregnant parent/co‑adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
• Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
• Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
• Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
• Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas

We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK.Our Peoplehelp Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone.

We have a zero‑tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.

Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full‑time, part‑time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.