At M&G, our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.
Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.
Through telling it like it is, owning it now and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.
We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and offer workplace adjustments to ensure you have the support you need to succeed in your role.
This role sits within the Chief Technology Office (CTO) and is accountable for leading the coordination and execution of Cyber Recovery and Disaster Recovery (DR) testing across critical cloud platforms and services. The position ensures the organisation can respond effectively to major outages, cyber incidents, and data integrity events through robust, repeatable, and validated recovery capabilities.
Acting as a subject matter expert, the role works across technology, security, risk, and business teams to align recovery testing with strategic priorities, regulatory expectations, and evolving cyber threats. It plays a key role in strengthening organisational resilience by validating recovery objectives and driving continuous improvement across cloud-hosted services.
Main Responsibilities
•Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of enterprise-wide Cyber Recovery and Disaster Recovery testing.
•Support delivery of enhanced cyber recovery capabilities, including isolated recovery environments and immutable backups.
•Validate recovery processes to ensure they meet defined recovery objectives and business requirements.
•Act as a subject matter expert on Cyber Recovery and Disaster Recovery, particularly across cloud environments.
•Collaborate with technology, security, risk, and business teams to ensure alignment with organisational strategy and regulatory expectations.
•Enforce standards, frameworks, and controls for Cyber Recovery and Disaster Recovery testing.
•Design and deliver realistic incident simulations, including cyber and ransomware scenarios, to test recovery preparedness.
•Promote consistent and repeatable testing practices across all critical cloud services.
•Analyse test outcomes, identify gaps, and drive remediation activities to improve recovery posture.
•Provide clear insight and assurance to stakeholders on recovery readiness and resilience posture.
•Leverage AI and automation to enable predictive risk identification, and automated recovery orchestration to improve response effectiveness and minimise operational disruption.
•Stay current with emerging threats, technologies, and best practices in cyber recovery and cloud resilience.
Key Knowledge, Skills and Experience
•Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
•Good knowledge of cloud platforms (preferably Microsoft Azure), including high availability and recovery architectures.
•Experience executing structured DR exercises for Availability Zones, IaaS, PaaS, and data platforms.
•Strong understanding of backup, replication, and recovery technologies (e.g. Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Vaulting, Immutable Storage).
•Experience with Cyber Recovery concepts, including ransomware recovery, data isolation, and clean room environments.
•Knowledge of resilience metrics including RTO, RPO, RTA, and service recovery prioritisation.
•Familiarity with regulatory expectations related to operational resilience and business continuity (e.g., FCA/PRA, DORA, ISO 22301).
•Experience coordinating large-scale test events involving multiple technical and business teams.
•Strong understanding of incident management and integration with cyber recovery processes.
•Experience with automation and scripting to support recovery testing.
•Experience working across cross-functional teams in complex technology environments.
•Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries.
•Familiarity with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud recovery strategies.
Soft Skills
•Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including engagement with senior leadership and risk committees.
•Ability to lead high-pressure test scenarios and drive outcomes across distributed teams.
•Strong analytical mindset with a focus on risk identification and mitigation.
•Pragmatic, outcome-focused approach balancing resilience, cost, and operational complexity.
•Self-starter with the ability to work independently and lead initiatives end-to-end.
•Ability to challenge constructively and influence resilience investment decisions.
What we offer:
We’re dedicated to supporting your wellbeing and helping you thrive, both at work and beyond. Our benefits are designed to help you balance your professional and personal life , and financially plan for the future. Our UK benefits include :
•A valuable pension scheme of up to 18% (13% made up of employer contributions and 5% employee contributions).
•Access to our Share Save and Share Incentive Plan, alongside financial wellbeing and support services to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.
•Enjoy 38 days annual leave (including bank holidays), with the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days. Our Time Off When You Need It policy gives you the flexibility - to balance work and personal commitments.
•Our market-leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - because supporting families is an important part of our inclusive culture.
•Health & Protection cover includes Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with additional family options - for peace of mind.
To explore more about life at M&G and our full benefits offering, visit Life at M&G
At M&G we strive to have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture, underpinned by our policies and employee-led networks that offer networking, support and development opportunities for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – across gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation and more – including neurodivergent individuals, career returners and those with military service experience.
M&G is proud to be Level 3: Disability Confident Leader under the UK Government Disability Confident employer scheme, and we welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you would like to participate in the initiative, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application.
We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. All candidates have the opportunity to request reasonable adjustments when applying. If you need any additional support at any stage, please contact us at: careers mandg.com