The Insolvency Service
Head of Digital Resilience and Business Continuity
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Protect the resilience of critical public services
The Insolvency Service, in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Head of Digital Resilience and Business Continuity (BCDR) with expertise in Azure Site Recovery (ASR), cloud disaster recovery, business continuity, cyber resilience and governance. Based in Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Exeter, Ipswich, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Nottingham on a permanent Grade 7 appointment, this role offers flexible hybrid working (60% in office over a month) and a salary of £57,367 to £63,319 (National).
If you would like to find out more about the role, the team and what it's like to work at the Insolvency Service, we are holding a Hiring Manager Q&A session for this role where you can virtually meet the team on the 5th October at 14:00 – 15:00. Click below to book your spot:
Building Digital Resilience Across the Insolvency Service
Insolvency Service is modernising its resilience posture and establishing an agency-wide Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery capability. This role will lead the strategy, delivery and assurance of disaster recovery across multiple Azure environments and suppliers, ensuring essential public services remain available during major disruptions including cyber incidents, infrastructure failures and other critical events.
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As a Head of Digital Resilience and Business Continuity (BCDR), you will:
- Own the agency-wide BCDR strategy and roadmap
- Design and deliver Azure-to-Azure disaster recovery capabilities using Azure Site Recovery (ASR)
- Establish disaster recovery-ready networking, identity and infrastructure in secondary regions
- Lead recovery testing programmes, including tabletop exercises, failover testing and full rehearsals
- Define and assure supplier and third-party resilience requirements across managed services
Essential skills
- Cloud-based Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery experience.
- Strong cloud backup and recovery knowledge.
- Experience integrating BC activities with incident response.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication.
- Supplier/vendor management.
- Ability to operate strategically and technically.
Desirable skills
- Azure Site Recovery experience.
- Azure recovery services knowledge.
- CISSP certification.
- ISO27001 exposure.
- Experience with government BC audit requirements.
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In return
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Flexi-time working
- Civil Service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%
- 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days with service
- Public holidays plus privilege leave
- Five days dedicated learning and development leave
- Five days paid volunteering leave
- Enhanced family-friendly policies
- Employee wellbeing and assistance programmes
- Access to a range of employee networks and communities
Why Join?
This is an opportunity to build and lead a resilience capability that protects nationally important public services. You'll shape how the Insolvency Service prepares for, responds to and recovers from major disruptions, influencing resilience strategy across cloud platforms, suppliers and business operations. Working at the intersection of technology, security and governance, you'll play a pivotal role in safeguarding essential services and driving long-term digital resilience across the organisation.
If you're ready to lead resilience strategy, strengthen critical digital services and make a lasting impact across a major government organisation, apply via the link and one of the Inspire People team will be in touch.
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