Disaster Recovery Manager
Posted Today by Whitehall Resources
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
City of London, London
Summary: The Disaster Recovery Manager role at Whitehall Resources involves leading IT disaster recovery initiatives for a key client on a 6-month contract. The position requires extensive experience in IT disaster recovery, particularly within financial services or large corporations. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and executing enterprise-wide disaster recovery strategies and ensuring compliance with governance standards. This role is fully remote and classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement enterprise-wide disaster recovery strategies.
- Lead live disaster recovery tests and scenario-based simulations.
- Act as the accountable owner in a RACI-driven model.
- Coordinate across various departments including Security, Infrastructure, and Internal Audit.
- Design and lead end-to-end recovery scenarios validating dependencies and business impact.
- Ensure compliance with audit remediation and assurance programs.
- Embed disaster recovery outputs into business-as-usual processes.
Key Skills:
- 8-12+ years of proven IT disaster recovery leadership experience.
- Experience in financial services or large corporate environments.
- Strong technical knowledge of cloud and on-premises disaster recovery solutions.
- Ability to operate in regulated environments with a focus on recovery assurance.
- Strong program delivery discipline and stakeholder coordination skills.
- Practical mindset focused on embedding outputs into BAU.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: City of London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Disaster Recovery Manager
Whitehall Resources require a Disaster Recovery Manager to work with a key client on a 6 month initial contract.
*Fully remote working.
*Inside IR35.
Disaster Recovery Manager
We are looking for an experienced IT Disaster Recovery leader with:
* IT DR experience in financial services (ideally), or in a large corporate such as a Global 500 or FTSE 100 organisation
* Proven IT / DR leadership experience (8-12+ years)
They should have:
* Owned enterprise wide DR strategy, not just documentation
* Led live DR tests and scenario based simulations (e.g. region loss, data corruption)
* Acted as the single accountable owner in a RACI driven model
Strong technical breadth, this is not a purely governance role. The right candidate should be comfortable across:
* Cloud DR (Azure / AWS multi region recovery, SaaS recovery models)
* On prem and hybrid infrastructure
* Tier 1 applications (ERP, finance systems, SaaS platforms)
* Backup, restore, failover, and failback design
Additional requirements:
* Experience leading audit remediation or assurance programmes, including producing closure ready evidence for governance and Internal Audit review.
* Ability to operate in regulated / validated environments, with a pragmatic understanding of hosted vs SaaS recovery assurance and control evidence.
* Strong programme delivery discipline (integrated planning, dependencies, RAID, milestones, escalation, and executive reporting).
* Ability to design and lead end to end recovery scenarios that validate dependencies, business impact, and practical recovery outcomes, not just technical restore activity.
* Strong matrix leadership and stakeholder coordination across Security, Infrastructure, Business Applications, Internal Audit, Financial Controls, and leadership forums.
* A practical mindset focused on embedding outputs into BAU, not just producing project documentation.
In short, the intent is to find not only a strong DR technologist, but someone who can help the programme land in an auditable, structured, and sustainable way.
All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.
Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.
