A&O Shearman
IT Service Resilience Manager
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What you will do
The successful candidate should have strong technical hands-on skills in Cloud, infrastructure, and applications deployments, along with the ability to translate business continuity and availability requirements into technical enterprise architecture along with operational disaster recovery requirements. It will be their responsibility to own the program of resilience and recovery testing across applications, SaaS, and third-party providers and internal teams.
Ownership and leadership execution in the following areas:
- Develop and maintain dependency maps that capture application, middleware, cloud services, data flows, and third-party dependencies to identify single points of failure and inform resilience design
- Lead DR implementation and testing program: design automated DR processes when feasible, schedule regular tests
- Own operational runbooks, monitoring, and incident playbooks aligned to graceful degradation modes; ensure monitoring and SRE/operations practices are aligned to expected degradation behaviors
- Coordinate crisis response governance and periodic scenario exercises with crisis response teams, define activation criteria, maintain war-room procedures, and ensure lessons-learned feed back into architecture and DR plans
- Run supplier resilience assessments for critical SaaS/third parties using a posture assessment approach; escalate remediation, negotiate contractual improvements, or recommend contingencies/alternative sourcing
- Develop and maintain dependency maps that capture application, cloud services, data flows, and third-party dependencies to identify single points of failure and inform resilience design
- Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security/CISO, application owners, BC/operational leads, and procurement to embed resilience standards across the lifecycle
- Manage and test application/service tiers to business-agreed RTO/RPO and reliability design targets
- Define and ensure adherence to DR/Resilience programme metrics: frequency of tests, % successful automated DR runs, closure rate for remediation actions identified through testing
- Manage vendor performance and contractual compliance of vendors agreed operational SLAs and vendor contingency plans validated via tests
- Identify and assess IT resilience risks related to system outages, cyber threats, and 3rd party dependencies
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What you will have
Experience
- 10+ years in technology resilience, disaster recovery, or IT operations, with 5+ years in leadership positions managing cross-functional teams
- Deep hands-on knowledge of a range of IT environments, SaaS, cloud infrastructure (AWS & Azure), and security tools
- Required expertise in ISO 22301, NIST, and ITIL
- Certifications (Preferred): Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), CISSP, CISM, or DRI International certifications
- Experience of communicating to senior stakeholders and interpreting complex technical solutions to simple language
- Exposure of working in both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies
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- Ability to anticipate risks and shift from reactive disaster recovery to proactive service resilience, focusing on "prevention by design"
- Skilled at navigating changing technology environments (e.g., cloud, DevOps) and leading transformation
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influence skills to work with EA, Platform Owners, I&O, InfoSec, Business Continuity, Procurement
- Proven ability to manage crisis situations, make quick, informed decisions during incidents, and maintain confidence (strategic optimism) within teams
- Excellent customer-facing skills with a good grasp of key drivers and requirements within the business
- Understanding of how technology resilience directly impacts business operations, continuity, and profitability
What we can offer you
We recognise the value of flexible working and embrace hybrid working, so that we can learn, grow, and succeed together.
Should you require additional support at any stage of the recruitment process due to a disability or a health condition, please do not hesitate to contact a member of our recruitment team who will work with you to provide any adjustments as required.
We are an equal opportunities recruiter and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE - A&O Shearman does not accept unsolicited CVs. For further information, please see our UK Recruitment Agency Policy and our commitment to direct sourcing here.
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