IT Disaster Recovery Manager - Newport

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Who are we?

We are a gas distribution business that services the gas infrastructure across Wales and the south-west of England. We serve our customers and communities with safe, reliable, and affordable energy services whilst investing to create a sustainable future to deliver our carbon-free vision for 2050.

What we’re looking for?

We are looking for an IT Disaster Recovery Manager who will be responsible for managing the IT Disaster Recovery Framework (ITDR) including developing strategies, policies and plans to support the business needs.

This role will take responsibility for Disaster Recovery exercises and need to understand the critical asset list of IT services, applications, and suppliers. Within this role you will work closely with various stakeholders including but not limited to project and business stakeholders, Business Continuity Management and suppliers to enhance the efficiency and success of the ITDR Framework.

We’ll trust you to:

• Manage and maintain the overall IT Disaster Recovery Framework (ITDR).
• To be responsible for reviewing the outcomes of Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and aligning the Disaster Recovery framework, strategy and plans.
• To develop effective strategies to respond to IT and operational service disruption in the event of a significant incident or disaster.
• Work with the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Governance Group and project stakeholders on a continual basis to test core IT systems and services and review ITDR policy and guideline(s).
• To be responsible for identifying IT business continuity risks, potential impact, likelihood and identifying the mitigation for these risks

You can read a full job description here.

You’ll need to have:

Essential

• Experience covering Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery processes and standards.
• Experience working with ISO22301.
• Expertise in Disaster Recovery planning and execution.
• A degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security or equivalent

Key Attributes

• Interpersonal skills and experience developing effective relationships with key stakeholders.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the articulation of technical elements for business representatives. Able to communicate at all levels within a complex organisation, specifically with a range of stakeholders.
• To demonstrate experience of complex problem solving, making recommendations, and taking into consideration variables to achieve the desired outcomes.

Desirable

• Experience of working in a large and complex Utilities organisation.
• A Membership/Certification of a body such as the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) or Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII).

We would also love to hear about anything else you feel you could add or bring to the role!

As we are a safety critical organisation, all offers of employment are subject to pre-employment drug & alcohol screening.

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive salary starting at £60,208 rising to £68,802
• Hybrid working
• Flexible working opportunities
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Retirement Savings Plan (pension) with Aviva: 5% employee contribution, with WWU doubling your contribution at 10% - totalling 15%
• 14 x salary Life Insurance linked to membership of the Retirement Savings Plan
• “Choices” flexible benefit scheme options including corporate gym memberships, dental insurance, and health cash-plans
• Access to our Financial Wellbeing Programme - allowing you to manage your benefits flexibly to suit your financial needs
• Enhanced pay for parental leave
• Retail discounts and cashback scheme
• Annual salary review
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Company Sick Pay
• In-house Occupational Health Team
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Comprehensive training

The way we do things

Our Ambition, Priorities and Values inform everything we do as a business – from our strategic planning to the performance management of our colleagues. Our values underpin everything we do, and we are committed to creating a working environment that supports and fosters diversity, inclusion and equity, where all of our colleagues feel valued and supported to contribute to their full potential.

We are focused on creating a culture where it doesn’t matter about gender, race, sexuality or disability; it’s about our colleagues’ skills, the way we do things and how we live our values.

You can find out more here.

Interested?

If you think you’d make a good addition to the team, we would love to hear from you!

To apply, click the link below.

If you would prefer to complete your application form in an alternative format such as Microsoft Word or would like to discuss the role in a little more detail, please contact us at recruitment@wwutilities.co.uk or on 07971 038 982.

You can also ask us about flexible working practices that may be available or tell us if you have any special requirements during the application process.

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