Disaster Recovery Manager
Posted Today by Whitehall Resources
Negotiable
Inside
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The Disaster Recovery Manager will lead IT disaster recovery efforts for a key client on a 6-month contract, focusing on financial services or large corporate environments. The role requires extensive experience in disaster recovery leadership, including strategy ownership and execution of live tests. The position is fully remote and classified as inside IR35, emphasizing a strong technical background alongside governance responsibilities. The ideal candidate will ensure the integration of disaster recovery outputs into business-as-usual operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and develop enterprise-wide disaster recovery strategy.
- Lead live disaster recovery tests and scenario-based simulations.
- Act as the single accountable owner in a RACI driven model.
- Design and lead end-to-end recovery scenarios validating dependencies and business impact.
- Coordinate with stakeholders across Security, Infrastructure, Business Applications, and Internal Audit.
- Embed disaster recovery outputs into business-as-usual processes.
- Deliver strong programme management including integrated planning and executive reporting.
- Operate in regulated environments with a focus on audit remediation and assurance.
Key Skills:
- 8–12+ years of IT disaster recovery leadership experience.
- Experience in financial services or large corporate environments.
- Strong technical knowledge of cloud DR (Azure/AWS), on-prem and hybrid infrastructure.
- Ability to lead audit remediation and assurance programmes.
- Strong programme delivery discipline and stakeholder coordination skills.
- Practical mindset focused on embedding outputs into BAU.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
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.