Technical Architect – Disaster Recovery Runbooks
Posted 1 day ago by Queen Square Recruitment Ltd
£425 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Nationwide
Summary: The Technical Architect for Disaster Recovery Runbooks is responsible for leading the design, development, and validation of disaster recovery strategies across critical IT services. This role requires expertise in disaster recovery architecture and resilience engineering, focusing on creating executable recovery strategies that meet business continuity requirements. The position involves collaboration with various teams to ensure operational readiness and the development of detailed recovery documentation. Candidates must possess active SC clearance and have a strong background in disaster recovery solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyse Business Impact Analysis (BIA) outputs and translate into technical recovery requirements
- Define minimum viable recovery states for critical services
- Design end-to-end disaster recovery strategies, including full environment loss scenarios
- Develop and maintain detailed DR runbooks with clear recovery steps and decision points
- Identify dependencies, sequencing requirements, and failure modes across applications and infrastructure
- Lead tabletop exercises and structured runbook walkthroughs
- Validate recovery procedures and refine based on testing outcomes
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and architecture teams to ensure operational readiness
- Provide structured handover documentation to support teams for ongoing ownership
Key Skills:
- Strong background in Disaster Recovery architecture and resilience engineering
- Proven experience designing end-to-end DR solutions (not component-level only)
- Hands-on experience producing DR runbooks from scratch
- Strong understanding of RTO/RPO and BIA interpretation
- Experience with cloud, hybrid, and on-prem infrastructure environments
- Ability to map complex application and infrastructure dependencies
- Experience running DR tests, tabletop exercises, and recovery simulations
- Strong technical documentation and stakeholder communication skills
- Experience working in high-pressure operational environments
Salary (Rate): £425/day
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Technical Architect – Disaster Recovery Runbooks
Location: Remote (Hybrid available)
Contract Type: 3-month contract
Rate: £425 per day (Inside IR35)
Security Clearance: SC clearance required (active and transferable, minimum 3 months validity)
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Technical Architect with strong Disaster Recovery (DR) and resilience expertise to lead the design, development, and validation of end-to-end DR runbooks across critical IT services.
This role focuses on ensuring robust, executable recovery strategies that align with business continuity requirements, including RTO/RPO targets, dependency mapping, and recovery sequencing across complex infrastructure and application landscapes.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse Business Impact Analysis (BIA) outputs and translate into technical recovery requirements
- Define minimum viable recovery states for critical services
- Design end-to-end disaster recovery strategies, including full environment loss scenarios
- Develop and maintain detailed DR runbooks with clear recovery steps and decision points
- Identify dependencies, sequencing requirements, and failure modes across applications and infrastructure
- Lead tabletop exercises and structured runbook walkthroughs
- Validate recovery procedures and refine based on testing outcomes
- Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and architecture teams to ensure operational readiness
- Provide structured handover documentation to support teams for ongoing ownership
Required Experience
- Strong background in Disaster Recovery architecture and resilience engineering
- Proven experience designing end-to-end DR solutions (not component-level only)
- Hands-on experience producing DR runbooks from scratch
- Strong understanding of RTO/RPO and BIA interpretation
- Experience with cloud, hybrid, and on-prem infrastructure environments
- Ability to map complex application and infrastructure dependencies
- Experience running DR tests, tabletop exercises, and recovery simulations
- Strong technical documentation and stakeholder communication skills
- Experience working in high-pressure operational environments
Desirable Experience
- Cloud recovery strategies (AWS, Azure, or hybrid environments)
- Experience with microservices, SaaS, and legacy application architectures
- Exposure to enterprise-scale resilience frameworks and standards
- Experience refining DR processes through real-world testing outcomes
Security Requirement
Candidates must hold active SC clearance that is transferable and valid for at least 3 months.