At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and enhance disaster recovery strategies for critical systems in a dynamic tech environment.
- Company: Globally recognised strategic advisory firm with a focus on resilience and innovation.
- Benefits: Hybrid working, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by ensuring business continuity and resilience against cyber threats.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in infrastructure engineering with expertise in disaster recovery solutions.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Ownership
- 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
- Resilient Infrastructure Design
- 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
- Risk & Recovery Management
- 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
- Testing & Simulation
- 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
- Incident Support & Leadership
- 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
- Documentation & Capability Development
- Maintain structured, usable documentation for recovery workflows and escalation paths
- Build internal capability and reduce dependency on external recovery support
Qualifications
- 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.
Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Engineer employer: Sure Exec Search
At Sure Exec Search, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer by fostering a collaborative work culture that values innovation and security in the rapidly evolving field of AI and emerging technologies. Located in the vibrant city of London, we offer our employees competitive benefits, opportunities for professional growth, and a chance to work alongside industry experts dedicated to responsible technology adoption. Join us to be part of a forward-thinking team that prioritises your development while making a meaningful impact in the tech landscape.
