Information Technology - DevOps Engineer (Cloud Engineer)

• Design, engineer, and maintain highly available enterprise backup and recovery platforms using SRE principles.
• Define and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets for backup and recovery services.
• Develop automation to reduce operational toil and improve platform reliability.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, availability, and recoverability.
• Build proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability for backup and cyber recovery platforms.
• Participate in incident response, major incident management, and recovery operations.
• Design and administer enterprise backup solutions across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, virtual machines, physical servers, databases, Kubernetes/OpenShift, NAS, object storage, and enterprise applications.
• Engineer immutable backup architectures supporting ransomware resilience.
• Optimize backup performance, retention, replication, encryption, and recovery objectives.
• Implement policy-based backup automation and lifecycle management.
• Ensure backup and recovery environments meet defined RPO and RTO requirements.
• Design and implement air-gapped recovery vaults, Clean Rooms, IRE environments, and immutable storage architectures.
• Develop secure recovery workflows for cyberattack and ransomware scenarios.
• Automate malware scanning, recovery-point validation, and recovery readiness checks.
• Design and test recovery orchestration for severe cyber disruption scenarios.
• Work closely with Cyber Security teams to develop ransomware resilience strategies.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code and Recovery as Code solutions.
• Create automated recovery runbooks using Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, and GitHub Actions.
• Automate recovery validation, compliance reporting, and evidence generation.
• Implement monitoring for backup success rates, replication health, cyber vault health, recovery readiness, storage utilization, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Build dashboards for operational teams and executive leadership.
• Integrate backup and recovery platforms with Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, and other enterprise monitoring tools.
• Plan and execute cyber recovery exercises, Clean Room validation, air-gap recovery testing, isolated recovery exercises, BMR testing, and Disaster Recovery testing.
• Validate application recoverability against defined business RTO/RPO requirements.
• Prepare executive-level reporting on cyber recovery readiness, resilience testing, risks, and remediation activities.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience., * 7+ years of experience in Backup Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related infrastructure roles.
• 5+ years designing and supporting enterprise backup and recovery solutions.
• 3+ years supporting cyber recovery, cyber resiliency, or ransomware recovery architectures.
• Hands-on experience implementing SRE principles, automation, reliability engineering, monitoring, and operational resilience.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, high availability, disaster recovery, RPO/RTO, and enterprise infrastructure architecture.

Backup & Recovery Technologies

Hands-on experience with one or more of the following:

• Cohesity
• Dell PowerProtect Data Manager
• Dell Data Domain
• Dell Cyber Recovery
• Rubrik
• Commvault
• Veritas NetBackup
• Veeam

Cyber Recovery & Resiliency

Strong experience with:

• Air-gapped cyber recovery vaults
• Immutable backups and immutable storage
• Clean Rooms
• Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE)
• Recovery orchestration
• Cyber resilience testing
• Ransomware recovery
• Recovery validation
• Bare Metal Recovery (BMR)
• Secure recovery workflows
• Disaster Recovery testing
• RPO/RTO validation

Cloud & Infrastructure

Experience supporting:

• Microsoft Azure
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
• Cloud-native backup and recovery
• Cross-region recovery
• Hybrid-cloud resiliency
• VMware
• Hyper-V
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• Linux
• Windows Server
• Active Directory
• Enterprise storage platforms

Automation / Infrastructure as Code

Strong hands-on experience with:

• Ansible
• Terraform
• Python
• PowerShell
• Bash
• GitHub
• GitHub Actions
• CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Recovery as Code

Observability & Monitoring

Experience with:

• Dynatrace
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Splunk
• ELK Stack
• ServiceNow

Security & Compliance

Strong understanding of:

• Zero Trust architecture
• NIST Cybersecurity Framework
• CIS Controls
• Encryption and key management
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
• Secure recovery processes, * Experience working within financial services, banking, insurance, or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience supporting GSIB cyber resiliency programs.
• Understanding of regulatory expectations from organizations such as the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FFIEC.
• Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing.
• Strong understanding of SRE reliability metrics and operational excellence practices.
• Experience implementing AIOps, intelligent monitoring, or predictive analytics.
• Excellent troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Ability to lead cross-functional technical recovery initiatives.
• Strong communication and executive presentation skills.
• Proven ability to influence engineering standards and improve operational reliability.
• Strong commitment to automation, continuous improvement, and resilience engineering.