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# Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Backup Engineer

- **Company:** Icon Clinical Research, Inc
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Active Directory, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Linux, Disaster Recovery, Multi-Factor Authentication, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Hyper-V, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Windows Servers, NetBackup, OpenShift, Windows PowerShell, Ansible, Prometheus, Zero Trust Network Access, Google Cloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Data Management, Veeam, Terraform, Splunk, Dynatrace, Commvault, Servicenow, Vmware
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/ca6d5289-05a2-45e2-bc17-1cf8dd472b8c

## About the Role

* 7+ years of experience in Backup Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or SRE.
 * Strong experience with enterprise backup platforms such as Cohesity, Dell PowerProtect, Data Domain, Dell Cyber Recovery, Rubrik, Commvault, Veritas NetBackup, or Veeam.
 * Hands-on experience with immutable backups, air-gapped vaults, Clean Rooms, Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE), ransomware recovery, and recovery orchestration.
 * Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, including cloud-native backup and hybrid/cross-region recovery.
 * Strong infrastructure knowledge: VMware, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Windows Server, Active Directory, and enterprise storage.
 * Automation experience with Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, Bash, GitHub/GitHub Actions, and CI/CD.
 * Experience with Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, or ServiceNow for monitoring and observability.
 * Knowledge of Zero Trust, IAM, MFA, encryption/key management, NIST, and secure recovery practices.
 * Experience defining SLOs, SLIs, RPO/RTO, conducting RCA, incident response, and reliability improvements.
 * Experience conducting cyber recovery, disaster recovery, clean-room, air-gap, and isolated recovery testing.
 * Strong communication, troubleshooting, cross-functional collaboration, and technical leadership skills.