Disaster Recovery Specialist
Posted 1 day ago by Bench IT Limited
Negotiable
Outside
Onsite
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Summary: The Disaster Recovery Specialist will serve as the primary liaison between UK IT Operations and the Centres of Excellence, focusing on Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity functions. This role involves managing communications between the UK and Spanish TPO DR services, ensuring effective Disaster Recovery management for critical systems, and overseeing related documentation and governance. The position requires a technical individual with hands-on experience in infrastructure and data centers, responsible for improving resilience within a global framework.
Key Responsibilities:
- Creation & ownership of the Disaster Recovery testing processes for customer Digital Transformation systems.
- Creation, Management & oversight of all Digital Transformation Disaster Recovery related documentation.
- Accountability for Digital Transformation DR Team operations.
- Creation & Leadership of DR Governance framework for Digital Transformation DR activities.
- Management of all customer DR stakeholder liaisons.
- Reporting responsibility of key deliverables for Digital Transformation DR Project & Operational activities.
- Ownership of alignment to Industry Standards & audit activity.
- DR related Budget & 3rd party supply chain contract management.
- Overall responsibility for improving the resilience position of Digital Transformation within global framework.
- Coordination of customer near-shore DR efforts for externally hosted business services.
Key Skills:
- Technical expertise in Infrastructure and Data Centres.
- Experience in creating Business Recovery run books and conducting Data Centre failover testing.
- Strong communication and coordination skills.
- Ability to manage stakeholder relationships effectively.
- Knowledge of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity standards.
- Experience in budget management and contract oversight.
Salary (Rate): £550 per day
City: Glasgow
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Disaster Recovery Specialist
Working as part of the UK Operations team, the role will act as the key point of liaison between UK IT Operations and the 4 Centres of Excellence, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity functions. The role holder will also manage communications and coordinate efforts between both the Spanish based TPO DR service and UK based TPOC DR functions.
The role is responsible for ensuring sufficient controls have been implemented to ensure the safe facilitation of Disaster Recovery management of customer Critical systems in the UK & Spain, as well as integration with customer Business Continuity & Operational Resilience policies and standards.
In terms of Key remits, the role has a number:
Creation & ownership of the Disaster Recovery testing processes for customer Digital Transformation systems.
Creation, Management & oversight of all Digital Transformation Disaster Recovery related documentation.
Accountability for Digital Transformation DR Team operations.
Creation & Leadership of DR Governance framework for Digital Transformation DR activities.
Management of all customer DR stakeholder liaisons.
Reporting responsibility of key deliverables for Digital Transformation DR Project & Operational activities.
Ownership of alignment to Industry Standards & audit activity.
DR related Budget & 3rd party supply chain contract management.
Overall responsibility for improving the resilience position of Digital Transformation within global framework.
Coordination of customer near-shore DR efforts for externally hosted business services.
Need someone who is technical and hands on with regards to Infrastructure and Data Centres, and potentially has pulled together BR run books, DC failover testing etc.
Role requires three days a week onsite at client in Glasgow