SC Cleared Technical Architect - £525/day via Umbrella - 6 Month Contract - Gloucester - Hybrid - SCC Flex Contract
We are recruiting an experienced Technical Architect - Disaster Recovery Runbooks (SC Cleared) to design, develop and validate end-to-end disaster recovery runbooks for business-critical IT services. This is a key role for a Technical Architect - Disaster Recovery Runbooks who can translate Business Impact Analysis outputs into technically executable recovery solutions within a secure environment.
Your responsibilities as the Technical Architect - Disaster Recovery Runbooks:
* Conduct detailed analysis of Business Impact Analysis (BIA) outputs to understand service criticality, RTO/RPO and recovery sequencing.
* Engage with stakeholders to understand application architectures, dependencies and failure modes.
* Define minimum viable recovery (MVR/MVI) states for in-scope services.
* Design robust, end-to-end disaster recovery approaches, including severe failure scenarios such as full environment loss.
* Develop, test and refine service-specific DR runbooks, ensuring:
* Clear recovery sequencing
* Explicit decision points
* Operational clarity under pressure
* Lead structured walkthroughs and tabletop exercises to validate recovery logic and sequencing.
* Identify gaps, risks and unrealistic recovery steps, owning refinement and issue resolution.
* Provide formal handover of DR runbooks to Application Support teams, ensuring clarity of ownership and ongoing maintenance.
As a successful Technical Architect - Disaster Recovery Runbooks, you will have:
* Proven hands-on experience designing and documenting end-to-end Disaster Recovery solutions.
* Demonstrable experience creating DR runbooks from scratch where no prior artefacts existed.
* Strong ability to interpret BIA outputs and translate them into executable technical recovery processes.
* Solid understanding of DR concepts, patterns and best practices, including severe failure scenarios.
* Practical experience defining and validating RTO/RPO-aligned recovery approaches.
* Strong technical documentation skills, producing clear, structured and unambiguous runbooks.
* Deep understanding of application architectures (monolith, microservices, SaaS, COTS) and infrastructure components.
* Experience working across cloud and hybrid environments, including cloud recovery patterns.
* Proven ability to lead tabletop exercises, walkthrough testing or recovery simulations.
* Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, working closely with Application Support SMEs, infrastructure teams and solution architects.
* Current SC Clearance (mandatory).
If you are a Technical Architect - Disaster Recovery Runbooks looking for a high-impact contract where you can shape resilient recovery capabilities for critical services, we would love to hear from you. Apply today - professional references required.
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