Required Education
• Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
Required Skills
• Infrastructure engineering, IT operations, or security-adjacent technical role
• Experience at a financial institution OR similarly regulated environment (healthcare, utilities, government)
• Disaster recovery or backup operations (DR tests, backup job management, restore procedures)
• Enterprise backup or replication platforms (Cohesity, Rubrik, Veeam, Zerto, Commvault, or NetBackup)
• Scripting (Python, Bash, or PowerShell)
• Networking concepts (VLANs, firewall rules, DNS, routing)
• Strong documentation habits (technical procedures and test records)
• Regulatory framework awareness (FFIEC, NIST CSF, or NYDFS)
Preferred (Nice to Have):
• IRE or clean room recovery exercise participation
• Regulatory examination or audit walkthrough experience
• IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible or equivalent)
• Certifications (CompTIA Security+, CySA+, AWS/Azure fundamentals, or vendor backup training)
• Ticketing/change management/ITSM workflows (ServiceNow or equivalent)
• Ransomware response or cyber incident response tabletop exercises
Job Responsibilities
• Maintain and operate IRE and clean room infrastructure
• Execute recovery runbook steps during drills and full recovery tests
• Document test procedures, results, and deviations
• Support forensic validation tasks (integrity checks, configuration comparisons)
• Apply clean room protocols (network isolation verification, identity access controls)
• Perform daily operational tasks on backup/replication platforms
• Monitor backup job health, investigate failures, escalate with documentation
• Configure and validate backup policies, retention schedules, replication targets
• Test restore procedures for servers, databases, and applications; record RTO/RPO outcomes
• Prepare evidence packages, control narratives, and test results for audits
• Maintain recovery test logs, exercise outcomes, and remediation tracking (FFIEC, NIST CSF, NYDFS)
• Participate in walkthroughs with regulators or internal audit teams
• Map regulatory guidance to recovery engineering controls
• Execute scripted recovery automation tasks (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Maintain IaC-driven recovery environment configurations (Terraform, Ansible)
• Contribute to runbook updates and playbook maintenance
• Participate in after-action reviews; track findings to closure
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and database teams on system dependencies