Job#: 3049786 Job Description: Senior Backup Engineer
Location: Chicago, Illinois (Partial Remote)
Role Overview
We are seeking a technical Senior Backup Engineer to assist with designing, implementing, and automating enterprise backup, cyber recovery, and data protection platforms. This role will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for modernizing backup infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, and recovery testing. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in enterprise backup technologies, cyber resiliency, and cloud infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and optimize enterprise backup and recovery platforms across various workloads.
- Lead the architecture of immutable and air-gapped backup environments to defend against cyber events.
- Develop enterprise backup standards, engineering patterns, and operational procedures.
- Perform capacity planning, lifecycle management, performance tuning, and storage optimization.
- Design and engineer logically and physically isolated cyber recovery environments.
- Develop reusable Terraform modules for deploying backup infrastructure.
- Automate backup deployments using Infrastructure as Code principles and scripting with PowerShell, Python, and Bash.
- Build and maintain dedicated backup testing and validation environments.
Required Qualifications
Education: A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience is required.
Experience: Candidates must have at least 8 years of enterprise backup engineering experience, with 5 or more years designing enterprise backup architectures. Experience in highly regulated environments and with hybrid cloud infrastructure is also required.
Technical Skills:- Backup Technologies: Experience with one or more: Cohesity, Dell PowerProtect, Rubrik, Veeam, Commvault, or Veritas NetBackup.
- Infrastructure as Code: Strong expertise in Terraform, Terraform Modules, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Scripting: Advanced experience with PowerShell, Python, Bash, and REST APIs.
- Cloud Platforms: Experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, VMware Cloud, and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
- Operating Systems: Proficiency with Windows Server, Linux (RHEL preferred), and VMware ESXi.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing enterprise cyber recovery architectures.
- Knowledge of NIST Cybersecurity Framework and ransomware recovery best practices.
- Familiarity with enterprise observability platforms such as Dynatrace or Splunk.
- Experience with storage technologies including Dell PowerStore, PowerScale, NetApp, or Pure Storage.
- Experience supporting the financial services industry.
- Relevant certifications (AWS, Azure, VMware, HashiCorp Terraform, Cohesity, Dell Technologies, Veeam, or similar).
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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