Role: Cyber Recovery Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL (hybrid)
Duration: 10 Months
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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
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