ABOUT YOU

This role is perfect for someone who is passionate about understanding and steering aspects of IT Continuity, protecting organisational systems and customer data and ensuring cyber resiliency.
The ideal candidate will have the ability to engage with, persuade and encourage business and IT Teams in designing, managing, and implementing defences and plans in a cloud-first security environment.
You should have an interest in the current and emerging threats from ransomware/extortion, climate change environment risks and classic disaster recovery scenarios. Understanding of cloud infrastructure and defence technologies and strategies would be highly beneficial.

You will need to be able to communicate effectively to influence others, share insights or escalate risks and issues.

• This role is most suited to someone who is a self-starter, thrives for quality and makes others better
• A balance of technical and people skills to achieve the expectations of the role
• Able to work independently or effectively as part of a team
• Demonstrate the ability to prioritise successfully and manage conflicting demands
• Flexible and adaptable attitude willing to undertake other ad hoc duties as required
• You are self-motivated, always keen to expand your knowledge and expertise
• You will have an interest in developing yourself, learning new skills and growing in Cloud technologies

Minimum Criteria

You’ll need all of these.

• Experience working with internal MO Support Teams, Third parties and other programme
• Able to promote best practice for IT and Business Continuity
• You can manage time and multiple priorities well
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Engineering experience of Cloud Platform such as AWS, Azure and Kubernetes is advantageous

Reporting into the IT Continuity Lead, the IT Continuity Analyst is responsible for supporting IT Continuity processes and being an advocate for IT and Business Continuity across Motability Operations.

The scope of the role includes, but not exclusively, protection against:

• Conventional continuity events.
• All existing and future types of cyber and extortion threats.
• Supplier stability and viability scenarios.
• Environmental changes and disasters.

The role is responsible for overseeing and governance in the creation of preventive and recovery systems to deal with these threats to the organisation, ensuring process continuity in the wake of an event. A key goal is delivering achievable and verifiable restoration plans.
Planning for ransomware defence along a preattack, peri-attack, postattack framework focusing on prevention, detection and recovery.
Working with the Security Operations team to continue to Implement a program of ransomware defence using preventative and detective techniques. Integrating cybersecurity into existing Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies.

Day to day objectives in liaison with the Business Risk and Business Continuity teams:

• Scenario Planning
• Support the co-ordination of Disaster Recovery tests
• Supporting programmes and projects with DR expectations
• Continuous Improvement and Reporting
• Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
• Supporting the completion of Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and running IT risk assessments.
• Overseeing continuity solutions implementation.
• Governance of testing and acceptance plans
• Risk analysis and evaluation.