IT Disaster Recovery Manager
Posted 3 days ago by Lorien
£550 Per day
Outside
Undetermined
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The IT Disaster Recovery Manager role in Central Manchester involves leading the development and implementation of a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy for a well-established brand. The position requires hands-on experience in assessing current disaster recovery capabilities and building a secure, testable framework. The ideal candidate will engage with senior stakeholders and produce detailed documentation while working across infrastructure and application layers. This is a contract role with a focus on immediate hiring.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the creation and rollout of a complete disaster recovery strategy.
- Assess the current disaster recovery posture and identify risk areas.
- Build a robust, secure, and testable disaster recovery framework.
- Influence senior stakeholders and produce detailed documentation.
- Engage with both technical and non-technical functions.
- Create runbooks, testing plans, and governance processes.
- Ensure compliance with security and compliance frameworks.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience delivering disaster recovery strategy and documentation in large-scale environments.
- Strong background in infrastructure recovery, hybrid cloud, and backup tooling.
- Skilled in stakeholder engagement across technical and non-technical functions.
- Hands-on experience creating runbooks, testing plans, and governance processes.
- Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001, NIST, PCI-DSS).
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, contractor-led environment.
Salary (Rate): £550 daily
City: Manchester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
IT Disaster Recovery Manager - Central Manchester £500-550/day - 6 months - Outside IR35
The Company: Lorien Global are working in partnership with a well-established brand in Manchester. With business continuity front of mind, we now need a Disaster Recovery capability that meets the demands of a modern, regulated environment.
The Role: We're looking for an experienced IT Disaster Recovery Manager to lead the creation and rollout of a complete DR strategy. You'll take full ownership of assessing the current DR posture, identifying risk areas, and building out a robust, secure, and testable framework from the ground up. This is a hands-on role suited to an experienced contractor who's comfortable influencing senior stakeholders, working across infrastructure and application layers, and producing detailed documentation.
The Requirements:
- Proven experience delivering DR strategy and documentation in large-scale environments
- Strong background in infrastructure recovery, hybrid cloud, and backup tooling
- Skilled in stakeholder engagement across both technical and non-technical functions
- Hands-on experience creating runbooks, testing plans, and governance processes
- Familiar with security and compliance frameworks (e.g. ISO 27001, NIST, PCI-DSS)
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, contractor-led environment
We're looking to fill this position ASAP, therefore submit your CV now to be considered.
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