Senior Cyber Recovery Engineer (Level 3)

Job#: 3034534

Job Description:
Senior Cyber Recovery Engineer (Level 3)

Location: Chicago, Illinois (Hybrid)

Role Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Cyber Recovery Engineer to serve as a technical leader in designing, implementing, and validating our organization's cyber recovery capabilities. This role is central to a critical initiative to build an Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE), including an air-gapped data vault and a clean room. The objective is to ensure the ability to restore systems and maintain a "minimal viable bank" in response to a cyber event like a ransomware attack. This is a practical, not theoretical, role for an architect who has direct experience building and testing recovery solutions in a regulated financial services context.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE) and clean room infrastructure from the ground up, defining best practices and testing scenarios.
• Architect and operate air-gapped or logically isolated backup and replication pipelines using immutable storage technologies such as Cohesity, Rubrik, Zerto, Veeam, Commvault, or NetBackup.
• Execute end-to-end recovery testing cycles, including tabletop, simulation, and full-failover scenarios, to validate RTOs and RPOs for critical applications.
• Develop and maintain recovery runbooks, playbooks, and automation scripts for the restoration of core systems.
• Integrate recovery automation into IaC pipelines using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell) to ensure reproducible and auditable recovery environments.
• Serve as a subject matter expert during regulatory examinations and audits, translating guidance from entities like the FFIEC and NIST into actionable engineering requirements.
• Lead technical forensic validation procedures within the IRE to confirm system integrity before re-entry into production.
• Collaborate with application owners, DBAs, and platform teams to validate application-layer recovery sequencing and dependencies.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of infrastructure, platform, or resilience engineering experience, with at least 4 years in a regulated financial institution.
• Demonstrated, hands-on experience designing, building, implementing, and testing cyber recovery solutions in an Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE) or clean room.
• Direct experience with technology examinations or regulatory responses involving financial regulators (e.g., OCC, FDIC, Federal Reserve).
• Proficiency with enterprise backup and replication platforms (e.g., Cohesity, Rubrik, Zerto, Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup).
• Working knowledge of IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible) and scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for recovery automation.
• Strong understanding of network segmentation, identity isolation, and zero-trust concepts within clean room environments.
• Familiarity with ransomware TTPs, destructive malware, and incident response in a recovery context.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a GSIB, SIFI, or Category I-III bank.
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISA, or disaster recovery specializations.
• Experience with cyber recovery in hybrid cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Familiarity with payment system continuity considerations (e.g., SWIFT, FedWire, CHIPS).
• Exposure to Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) requirements.
• A background in incident response or cyber threat intelligence.

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