Platform Recovery Lead

Overview

In this Platform Recovery Lead role, you will strengthen our digital resilience across complex platforms and cloud environments. You’ll partner with engineering, security, and product teams to coordinate recovery activities and readiness. You help shape our recovery strategy and ensure services stay available during disruptions. This hybrid role combines hands-on governance with cross-functional collaboration to support EDF’s mission of sustainable, reliable energy services.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• annual bonus potential
• market-leading pension scheme
• electric vehicle leasing
• discounted gym membership
• life assurance

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain IT digital recovery plans aligned with architectural standards
• Maintain recovery runbooks and technical recovery procedures for critical services
• Raise and monitor recovery risks and support mitigation with business continuity leads
• Ensure recovery capabilities meet service level requirements with product teams
• Contribute to continuous improvement of testing methods in line with regulatory expectations
• Engage with senior stakeholders across a federated organization to align resilience priorities
• Coordinate regular testing regimes with business units to assess recovery readiness

Key requirements

• Proven experience in 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) and enterprise architecture principles
• Ability to lead cross-functional response activities and influence senior stakeholders
• Certifications such as ITIL, ISO 22301, CISSP, CISM, or Cloud Architecture qualifications (preferred)
• Security Clearance (SC) eligibility and UK residency for last five years

• detail-oriented
• strong analytical skills
• stakeholder engagement
• IT disaster recovery
• digital recovery
• operational resilience

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