Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Engineer in London

Opportunity Reporting to the Group Head of ICT Infrastructure, the Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Engineer will be responsible for designing, embedding, and continuously strengthening Brunswick’s Disaster Recovery and operational resilience capability across our global technology estate. This is both a strategic and hands-on engineering role focused on ensuring Brunswick can recover rapidly and effectively from cyber incidents, ransomware, system outages, infrastructure failure, or wider operational disruption. The successful candidate will help move the organisation from documented recovery intent to fully engineered, tested, and measurable recovery capability. Working closely with Technology, Security, and business stakeholders, you will design and validate recovery strategies that safeguard client delivery, protect data integrity, and maintain operational continuity. You will own the BC/DR roadmap, ensuring recovery planning evolves in line with emerging cyber threats, business growth, and changes to our technology landscape. This is a critical role for an experienced infrastructure engineer with a strong resilience mindset who is motivated to build and mature a foundational safeguard within a global professional services firm.

About the Role We are a key service provider to the business, delivering ICT services to colleagues across 27 offices globally. Our ICT department comprises Security, Infrastructure, Service, Applications, AI and Programme Management teams working collaboratively to deliver secure, reliable, and resilient technology services.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Own and develop Brunswick’s Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategy across infrastructure and business critical platforms.
• Design and implement resilient architectures that minimise impact from cyber attack, ransomware, infrastructure failure, or cloud disruption.
• Define and continuously refine Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) across critical services.
• Conduct regular disaster recovery testing, cyber incident simulation exercises, and failover validation.
• Work closely with the ICT Security team to integrate BCDR planning into broader cyber defence and incident response frameworks.
• Assess and reduce cyber related operational risk by validating backup integrity, isolation controls, and recovery sequencing.
• Develop structured playbooks for recovery from ransomware, identity compromise, large-scale outage, and data loss scenarios.
• Provide technical leadership during major incidents, acting as a resilience SME during cyber or operational crises.
• Ensure new systems, projects, and architectural changes are designed with resilience and recoverability embedded by default.
• Maintain detailed documentation covering recovery workflows, escalation models, and crisis communication pathways.
• Build strong internal recovery capability, reducing reliance on external providers during high-pressure situations.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to ensure recovery capabilities meet client, regulatory, and governance expectations.

What We're Looking For Broad technical We are seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer with a strong cyber resilience mindset and a proactive approach to operational risk reduction. Minimum experience and capabilities:

• 5+ years’ experience in infrastructure engineering within a hybrid cloud environment.
• Demonstrable experience designing and implementing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity frameworks.
• Strong understanding of cyber threat vectors, particularly ransomware, identity compromise, and cloud service disruption.
• Experience supporting or participating in cyber incident response and post-incident recovery.
• Deep understanding of backup integrity, replication strategies, failover architectures, and high-availability design.
• Experience defining and managing RPO and RTO in enterprise environments.
• Ability to assess technical risk and design pragmatic, resilient recovery strategies.
• Strong cross functional collaboration skills, particularly with Security and senior leadership.
• Calm, structured, and analytical under pressure.
• Strong written documentation skills, capable of producing executive ready recovery and resilience documentation.
• Appreciation of regulatory, client, and governance expectations around operational resilience and cyber preparedness.

Desirable:

• Certifications in cloud architecture, cybersecurity, or business continuity disciplines.
• Experience in professional services or highly client-facing environments.
• Experience leading structured disaster recovery or cyber simulation exercises.

Why join us Whether you are joining a client facing team, a core services team, or starting out on your professional career journey, joining Brunswick unlocks a range of employee benefits to support your financial future, health and wellness, family and community and continuous professional development.

About Brunswick Brunswick is a global advisory firm. We help companies tackle high-stakes issues, navigate complex stakeholder relationships, and deliver high-impact outcomes. Our clients value our ability to anticipate, shape, and respond to the key players and forces in the financial and investment arena, regulatory and geopolitical universe, NGO community, workforce and beyond. They rely on us for deep experience, fresh perspectives and original thinking. So, in Brunswick you will find an exceptional range of experience and talent with a rich mix of backgrounds. From the beginning, we have prioritized attracting, developing, and retaining the best professionals in the industry, united by a culture of inclusivity, excellence, and intellectual curiosity. Founded in 1987 in London, the firm has organically grown to 27 offices in 18 countries across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. We operate as a “one-firm firm” with no individual profit centers. This allows us to assemble fully integrated, bespoke teams for each client, able to draw on the full resources of Brunswick anywhere in the world.

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