Platform Recovery Lead – Hybrid – Gloucester, UK Job at Shorthampton Full Time NEW

Platform Recovery Lead – Gloucester, UK

About the Role

Working in our Enterprise IT function youll be supporting our business to deliver their priorities and objectives. Youll be contributing to Helping Britain Achieve Net Zero. We understand our business needs and provide specialist advice and knowledge to mitigate risk and maximise success. We are exemplar and act with integrity in a challenging but rewarding environment.

We are seeking someone with passion, skills and experience to help our Platform Recovery team strengthen our ability to recover technology services.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Enterprise Product Manager in the Enterprise Platform team, the Platform Recovery Lead will play a key role ensuring our technology services are resilient, recoverable and capable of withstanding disruptions.

Our Platform Recovery practise shapes and drives our digital recovery strategy across complex platforms, cloud environments, and critical business services. The team collaborates closely with colleagues in engineering, security, service management, business units and product teams to coordinate recovery activities and improve enterprise-wide readiness.
If you are enthusiastic about resilience and want to make a difference to our organisational stability and performance, this is an exciting opportunity to take a leading role in strengthening our digital future.

Youll join us on a salary starting from 57,600 per annum (depending on experience), with the potential for an annual bonus. This is hybrid working role, that balances time at home and on site to support collaboration and delivery. There will therefore be occasional travel to our offices within the UK.

Who You Are

• To be successful in this role youll be detailoriented with strong analytical skills and the ability to analyse technical information to translate into structured recovery documentation.
• Youll have proven experience of IT disaster recovery, digital recovery, operational resilience, or IT service continuity.
• Hands-on experience with operational resilience frameworks, impact tolerance setting and scenario testing.
• Familiarity with on-premise and cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), infrastructure resilience patterns and enterprise architecture principles.
• Ability to lead cross-functional response activities and influence senior stakeholders.
• Ideally, youll have certifications such as ITIL, ISO 22301, CISSP, CISM, or Cloud Architecture qualifications.
• Working collaboratively with the wider Enterprise Platform team and business colleagues to create a great place to work .
• Youre committed to health, safety, wellbeing and the environment, and carry out your role in a manner that enables us to be a sustainable business financially, environmentally and socially.

To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Clearance (SC), which will ordinarily require you to have British residency for the last five years.

What Youll Be Doing

• Youll support the development and maintenance of IT digital recovery plans, ensuring documentation is accurate, complete, and aligned to architectural standards.
• Youll maintain and assure recovery runbooks and technical recovery procedures for critical infrastructure and application services.
• Youll raise and monitor recovery related risks and support mitigation planning with business continuity leads and Enterprise product managers and owners.
• Youll work with Enterprise product teams and business units to ensure recovery capabilities meet service level requirements.
• Youll assist with continuous improvement of testing methods, ensuring alignment with regulatory and industry expectations.
• Youll engage with senior stakeholders across a federated business model to ensure resilience priorities are understood and supported.
• Youll engage with business units to understand their service priorities and recovery readiness including regular testing regimes.

Pay, Benefits and Culture

Alongside a starting salary from 57,600pa (depending on experience) and potential for an annual bonus, and a marketleading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days and more.

At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. Thats why we offer you the freedom to develop a career thats unique to you. Here, Success is Personal its your journey, powered by us.

Everyone is welcome at EDF; were committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments.

Join us and find your success at EDF!

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Closing date: Thursday 28th May

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