Technical Disaster Recovery Architect (SC Cleared) - Remote - 3 Month Initial Contract - Inside IR35

Role Overview

A senior technical architecture role focused on designing, implementing, and assuring Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions across complex enterprise environments.

The position requires a seasoned professional with deep operational resilience expertise, capable of translating business requirements into robust recovery strategies and leading DR exercises and failover testing activities.

The role sits within a highly regulated environment and involves collaborative development of DR runbooks alongside other Technical Architects.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions across complex hybrid and cloud enterprise environments, aligned to business requirements, RTOs, and RPOs.
• Develop, maintain, and test recovery runbooks for business-critical services, ensuring they are accurate, actionable, and fit for purpose.
• Conduct and lead DR exercises, failover testing, and recovery assurance activities, ensuring recoverability of critical systems and services.
• Perform Business Impact Analysis (BIA) processes, translating outputs into recovery strategies and resilience requirements across the technology estate.
• Collaborate with other Technical Architects to complete DR runbooks and governance deliverables, ensuring alignment across resilience, infrastructure, and security functions.

Top 5 Skills

• DR & Business Continuity expertise - 10+ years in technical architecture, infrastructure, or operational resilience, with proven experience designing and implementing DR and BC solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Recovery runbook development - Demonstrable experience developing, testing, and maintaining recovery runbooks for business-critical services, ideally within a team of Technical Architects.
• Hybrid & cloud recovery architecture - Strong knowledge of hybrid infrastructure, cloud recovery patterns, backup technologies, and replication solutions across enterprise-scale environments.
• Resilience frameworks & standards - Strong working knowledge of ISO 22301, ISO 27001, ISO 27031, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, with experience applying these within CNI, utilities, energy, nuclear, or defence environments.
• DR testing & assurance governance - Proven ability to plan and execute DR exercises, failover testing, and recovery assurance activities, with experience translating BIA outputs into actionable recovery strategies, RTOs, and RPOs.

Contract Details

• Rate: £550 per day Inside IR35
• Location: Remote (Occasional On Site Travel to Gloucester)
• Duration: Until the end of the year (Chance of Extension)

This role requires an active SC Clearance.