Security & Business Continuity Specialist

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

On behalf of Tesco IMS, AMS are now looking for a Security & Business Continuity Specialist for a 6 Month contract based in the bank's Newcastle Upon Tyne office on a hybrid working model.

This role plays a pivotal part in ensuring operational resilience, maintaining robust disaster recovery processes, and supporting the organisation's business continuity framework.

You'll work closely with senior stakeholders across technology, governance, and business operations to ensure our continuity and recovery plans are effective, well-documented, and aligned with business impact assessments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the review and enhancement of disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) processes across on-premise and cloud environments (primarily AWS).
• Conduct detailed business impact assessments (BIA) and align technical continuity plans to business priorities and regulatory expectations.
• Support and guide the Information Technology Steering Committee (ITSC) in ensuring IT investments, controls, and risk mitigations are aligned with strategic objectives.
• Collaborate with application owners to understand system configurations, security controls, backup frequencies, and restoration capabilities.
• Oversee backup and recovery testing, ensuring processes are fully documented, repeatable, and auditable.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to educate, train, and embed business continuity principles within teams, ensuring ownership and accountability.
• Update and maintain scenario libraries, playbooks, and post-incident action plans, ensuring readiness for both technical and business disruptions.
• Produce comprehensive reports, risk assessments, and governance documentation to support audit, assurance, and regulatory requirements.
• Work closely with the IMS function to identify and remediate resilience gaps across systems and processes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of the organisation's business continuity maturity, including testing cycles, communications, and stakeholder engagement.

What We Require from the Candidate:

• Proven experience in IT Security, Infrastructure, or Audit, ideally within financial services or another highly regulated sector.
• Strong knowledge of disaster recovery, data backup, and cloud-based resilience, particularly AWS
• Hands-on experience performing business impact assessments, continuity testing, and recovery planning.
• Solid understanding of risk mitigation, incident response, and IT governance
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and report-writing abilities comfortable engaging with senior leaders and technical specialists alike.
• High attention to detail, with the ability to document complex technical environments clearly and accurately.
• Confident user of Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and Word; PowerPoint used occasionally for stakeholder presentations.

Desirable:

• Experience working within or supporting a banking or financial services
• Familiarity with ISO 22301 (Business Continuity Management), COBIT, or ITIL
• Professional certifications such as CBCI, CISA, or CISSP.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements around operational resilience and continuity.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal - from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you've worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

Next Steps:

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

Our client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

Please note that for the duration of this assignment you will be working as an external resource engaged by AMS.