G7 Head of Digital Resilience and Business Continuity (BCDR)

The Insolvency Service requires a Head of Digital Resilience and Business Continuity to manage preparedness against major disruptions, ensuring essential public services continue during crises such as cyber-attacks, infrastructure failure, or pandemics. This role guarantees compliance with government security standards, manages risks to critical assets, and develops response strategies.

The Insolvency Service is a leading government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty.

Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive, and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 9 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include, Carers Network, Disability network group, Employee Assistance, Representatives, FACES Network Group, LGBT+, Mind Matters, Part Time Workers, The Shed - Men’s Network Group and Women’s Network Group.

We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, through our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.

The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career!

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 5th October at 14.00-15.00. Please click here to reserve your place.

Change and Technology Services (CTS) is responsible for the delivery of all the agency’s information and communications technology services. We are modernising our resilience posture and seek a G7 Head of BCDR to build and lead an agency‑wide capability that extends current Azure backup strategies and delivers orchestrated recovery of public‑facing services using Azure Site Recovery (ASR). You will own strategy, delivery and assurance of disaster recovery across multiple subscriptions and suppliers, embedding a sustainable programme of planning, testing and audit aligned to government standards.

Responsibilities

• own the BCDR strategy and roadmap; integrate with ISMS incident processes and SIMP/Gold Command activation
• design and deliver Azure‑to‑Azure DR using ASR (replication policies, target‑region readiness, Recovery Plans/runbooks)
• design and deliver DR‑ready networking/identity in the secondary region (VNets/subnets, DNS, private endpoints, routing, firewalls)
• establish a rolling test regime (table‑tops, component tests, non‑disruptive test failovers and full rehearsals) with auditable evidence
• set and assure supplier and third‑party BCDR requirements (immutability, Geo-Redundant Storage/ Cross-Region Restore, cadence of testing) across all managed subscriptions
• maintain the BCDR risk register; quantify inherent vs residual risk; provide regular governance/ELT reporting
• support business case development and investment options for resilience improvements
• the postholder will work closely with the Physical Security and Resilience Team (PSRT) to ensure effective alignment between cyber resilience, physical security, and wider business continuity arrangements
• the role will actively support joined up planning and testing, to identify synergies between cyber and physical resilience activities, and contribute to strengthening the agency’s overall capability to prevent, respond to, and recover from disruptive incidents

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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