The ideal candidate will design and operate secure, highly available recovery platforms across on-premises, cloud, virtualized, and containerized environments, with a strong focus on ransomware resilience, immutable backups, cyber recovery vaults, recovery automation, and SRE best practices.
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Design, engineer, and maintain highly available enterprise backup and recovery platforms using SRE principles.
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Define and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets for backup and recovery services.
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Develop automation to reduce operational toil and improve platform reliability.
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Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement permanent corrective actions.
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Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, availability, and recoverability.
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Build proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability for backup and cyber recovery platforms.
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Participate in incident response, major incident management, and recovery operations.
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Design and administer enterprise backup solutions across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, virtual machines, physical servers, databases, Kubernetes/OpenShift, NAS, object storage, and enterprise applications.
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Engineer immutable backup architectures supporting ransomware resilience.
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Optimize backup performance, retention, replication, encryption, and recovery objectives.
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Implement policy-based backup automation and lifecycle management.
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Ensure backup and recovery environments meet defined RPO and RTO requirements.
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Design and implement air-gapped recovery vaults, Clean Rooms, IRE environments, and immutable storage architectures.
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Develop secure recovery workflows for cyberattack and ransomware scenarios.
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Automate malware scanning, recovery-point validation, and recovery readiness checks.
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Design and test recovery orchestration for severe cyber disruption scenarios.
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Work closely with Cyber Security teams to develop ransomware resilience strategies.
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Develop Infrastructure as Code and Recovery as Code solutions.
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Create automated recovery runbooks using Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, and GitHub Actions.
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Automate recovery validation, compliance reporting, and evidence generation.
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Implement monitoring for backup success rates, replication health, cyber vault health, recovery readiness, storage utilization, and infrastructure dependencies.
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Build dashboards for operational teams and executive leadership.
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Integrate backup and recovery platforms with Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, and other enterprise monitoring tools.
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Plan and execute cyber recovery exercises, Clean Room validation, air-gap recovery testing, isolated recovery exercises, BMR testing, and Disaster Recovery testing.
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Validate application recoverability against defined business RTO/RPO requirements.
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Prepare executive-level reporting on cyber recovery readiness, resilience testing, risks, and remediation activities.
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Experience working within financial services, banking, insurance, or another highly regulated industry.
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Experience supporting GSIB cyber resiliency programs.
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Understanding of regulatory expectations from organizations such as the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FFIEC.
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Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing.
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Strong understanding of SRE reliability metrics and operational excellence practices.
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Experience implementing AIOps, intelligent monitoring, or predictive analytics.
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Excellent troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
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Ability to lead cross-functional technical recovery initiatives.
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Strong communication and executive presentation skills.
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Proven ability to influence engineering standards and improve operational reliability.
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Strong commitment to automation, continuous improvement, and resilience engineering.
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