IT Disaster Recovery Manager

Salary: £55,000 -£60,000 (pro rata to contract)

Contract Type: 6 month FTC

Work Life Balance: Hybrid

Candidate Journey: Our goal is to reply to applications within 3 working days. Additionally, we make sure to acknowledge, evaluate, and respond to all applications as a way of showing our appreciation for your time and effort in applying to us.

Ready to help redefine insurance?

We're an award-winning business that's changed how customers experience insurance. By challenging traditional thinking and raising the bar on service, we've built a reputation for doing things differently.

Our people are at the heart of that success. We invest in talent, back bold ideas and create space for innovation to flourish because growth happens when great people are empowered to do their best work.

With a global ambition to innovate, dominate and disrupt niche insurance markets, we're looking for forward-thinkers who thrive on change and want to shape the future of the industry.

The Role:

We're looking for an experienced IT Disaster Recovery Manager to lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of our disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity capabilities. This role is critical in ensuring the resilience of our IT systems, minimising downtime, and protecting business operations in the event of disruption.

What will you do?

Strategy & Planning

• Define and own the organisation's IT disaster recovery strategy, aligned to broader business continuity plans
• Conduct risk assessments and business impact analyses to identify critical systems and dependencies
• Establish and maintain recovery objectives (RTOs and RPOs) in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders

• Develop, implement, and maintain DR policies, standards, and procedures
• Ensure DR solutions are embedded across infrastructure, applications, and data environments
• Integrate DR planning with third-party vendors and cloud platforms

• Lead regular DR testing, simulations, and failover exercises
• Analyse outcomes, document findings, and drive continuous improvement
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards (e.g. ISO 22301, GDPR)

• Track DR readiness and provide regular reporting to senior leadership
• Maintain an up-to-date inventory of critical systems and recovery capabilities
• Lead post-incident reviews and implement lessons learned

• Deliver training and awareness sessions across IT and business teams
• Act as a subject matter expert for DR best practices and emerging technologies

• Proven experience in IT disaster recovery, business continuity, or IT risk management
• Strong understanding of DR technologies (backup, replication, cloud recovery)
• Experience defining and managing RTO/RPO frameworks
• Knowledge of industry standards such as ISO 22301, NIST, or ITIL
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

• Experience in hybrid cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Relevant certifications (e.g. CBCP, ITIL, CISSP)
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture and IT service management

• DR plans are tested, validated, and continuously improved
• Critical systems can be restored within agreed RTO/RPO targets
• The organisation demonstrates strong resilience and audit readiness
• Stakeholders are confident in DR processes and response capability