Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Engineer

Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Engineer

Location: London (Hybrid Working)

(Sponsorship not provided)

Our client, a best-in-class globally recognised strategic advisory firm, is seeking an experienced Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Engineer to join their growing technology team.

Reporting to the Group Head of ICT Infrastructure, you will play a key role in designing, embedding, and continuously strengthening resilience across the organisation's global technology estate, ensuring critical systems and services can be recovered rapidly from cyber incidents, infrastructure failure, and operational disruption. This is an excellent opportunity to move recovery capability beyond documentation into fully engineered, tested, and continuously improved systems, in a business that treats resilience as a foundational safeguard.

This role is ideal for a hands-on infrastructure engineer with a strong cyber resilience mindset, looking to take ownership of a critical capability within a modern, forward-thinking environment.

• Own and maintain the organisation's BC/DR strategy across infrastructure and critical systems
• Develop and continuously refine recovery plans aligned to business and operational priorities
• Transition recovery capability from static documentation to engineered, testable solutions

• Design and support resilient architectures across cloud and on-prem environments
• Ensure systems are built with recovery, redundancy, and fault tolerance as standard
• Implement backup, replication, and failover mechanisms to support rapid restoration of services

• Define and manage Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)
• Validate backup integrity, restore processes, and recovery sequencing
• Identify and remediate gaps in operational resilience and recovery readiness

• Plan and execute disaster recovery tests, failover exercises, and large-scale cyber recovery simulations with technical teams
• Capture outcomes and drive continuous improvement in recovery capability

• Act as a technical SME during major incidents, providing structured support through high-pressure operational disruption
• Contribute to post-incident analysis and ensure corrective actions are implemented
• Work closely with Security teams to align recovery planning with cyber incident response
• Engage with technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure resilience requirements are met
• Ensure recovery capabilities meet client, regulatory, and governance expectations, embedding resilience into architecture, change, and project processes

• Maintain structured, usable documentation for recovery workflows and escalation paths
• Build internal capability and reduce dependency on external recovery support
• 5+ years' experience in infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering within a hybrid cloud environment
• Proven experience designing and implementing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions
• Strong understanding of cyber-related failure scenarios (ransomware, identity compromise, service disruption)
• Experience supporting incident response and system recovery activities
• Deep knowledge of backup, replication, high availability, and failover architectures
• Experience defining and working with RTO and RPO targets in enterprise environments
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess and reduce technical risk
• Ability to remain calm and structured during major incidents
• Strong communication and documentation skills, capable of producing executive-ready resilience documentation
• Appreciation of regulatory, client, and governance expectations around operational resilience and cyber preparedness
• Experience implementing or continuously improving a BC/DR framework aligned with ISO 27001, including supporting certification or surveillance audits (controls, evidence, risk treatment, testing records, and continual improvement)
• Experience in professional services or highly client-facing environments
• Cloud, cybersecurity, or business continuity–related certifications
• Exposure to structured disaster recovery testing or cyber simulation exercises
• Background in high-availability or mission-critical infrastructure environments

Sure Commercial Limited (trading as Sure Exec Search) is a proud Equal Opportunities employer and does not discriminate against any candidate on the grounds of age, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policy is available on request.