Disaster Recovery/Exercise Support - Inside IR35 - SC Cleared
Posted 1 day ago by SR2 - Socially Responsible Recruitment
£400 Per day
Inside
Undetermined
London, UK
Summary: This role focuses on supporting the development, maintenance, and testing of disaster recovery and incident response arrangements for critical digital services. Operating at SFIA Level 4, the position involves hands-on support to service owners in documenting disaster recovery plans and coordinating testing activities. The role also contributes to exercises and incident response activities, ensuring alignment with organizational policies and frameworks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support service owners in identifying, documenting, and maintaining disaster recovery plans for critical digital services
- Assist in capturing service dependencies, recovery priorities, and minimum service levels within DR documentation
- Coordinate and support the delivery of DR testing activities, including tabletop exercises and wargames
- Contribute to scenario development, data collation, exercise logistics, and facilitation support
- Record outcomes, risks, gaps, and improvement actions from exercises and recovery tests
- Support the ongoing review and maintenance of DR plans to ensure they remain current and accessible at point of need
- Assist senior leads in maintaining DR frameworks, standards, and supporting documentation
- Provide operational support during live incidents and recovery activities as required
- Liaise with technical teams, service owners, business continuity, crisis management, and external partners
- Maintain awareness of current resilience, cyber, and incident response practices and standards
Key Skills:
- Experience in disaster recovery planning and incident response
- Knowledge of resilience frameworks and standards
- Strong coordination and organizational skills
- Ability to document and maintain technical documentation
- Experience in conducting tabletop exercises and wargames
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders
- SC clearance
Salary (Rate): £400 daily
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Disaster Recovery/Exercise Support - Inside IR35 - SC Cleared
Role Overview
This role supports the development, maintenance, and testing of disaster recovery (DR) and incident response arrangements for critical digital services. Operating at SFIA Level 4, the role works under the direction of senior resilience or DR leads, providing hands-on support to service owners in documenting DR plans, coordinating testing activities, and capturing lessons learned from exercises and incidents.
The role contributes to tabletop exercises, wargames, and live incident response activities, helping ensure plans remain current, usable, and aligned to organisational DR policy, standards, and resilience frameworks.
Key ResponsibilitiesSupport service owners in identifying, documenting, and maintaining disaster recovery plans for critical digital services
Assist in capturing service dependencies, recovery priorities, and minimum service levels within DR documentation
Coordinate and support the delivery of DR testing activities, including tabletop exercises and wargames
Contribute to scenario development, data collation, exercise logistics, and facilitation support
Record outcomes, risks, gaps, and improvement actions from exercises and recovery tests
Support the ongoing review and maintenance of DR plans to ensure they remain current and accessible at point of need
Assist senior leads in maintaining DR frameworks, standards, and supporting documentation
Provide operational support during live incidents and recovery activities as required
Liaise with technical teams, service owners, business continuity, crisis management, and external partners
Maintain awareness of current resilience, cyber, and incident response practices and standards
