Information Technology - DevOps Engineer (Cloud Engineer)

Job Title:Information Technology - DevOps Engineer (Cloud Engineer)

Location: Chicago, IL

Type: W2 Contract

Required Education

Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent work experience

Required Experience 7+ years in Backup Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering

5+ years designing enterprise backup solutions

3+ years supporting cyber recovery architectures

Experience implementing SRE principles within enterprise infrastructure environments

Strong understanding of distributed systems and high availability architectures

Cohesity

Dell PowerProtect Data Manager

Dell Data Domain

Dell Cyber Recovery

Rubrik

Commvault

Veritas NetBackup

Veeam

Air-gapped vaults

Immutable backups

Clean Rooms

Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE)

Recovery orchestration

Cyber resilience testing

Ransomware recovery

Recovery validation

Microsoft Azure

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Cloud-native backup

Cross-region recovery

Hybrid cloud resiliency

VMware

Hyper-V

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Linux

Windows Server

Active Directory

Enterprise storage platforms

Ansible

Terraform

Python

PowerShell

Bash

GitHub

GitHub Actions

CI/CD pipelines

Dynatrace

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

ELK Stack

ServiceNow

Zero Trust architecture

NIST Cybersecurity Framework

CIS Controls

Encryption and key management

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Multi-factor authentication (MFA)

Secure recovery processes

Preferred Qualifications Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry

Experience supporting GSIB cyber resiliency programs

Knowledge of regulatory expectations from agencies such as the Federal Reserve, OCC, or FFIEC

Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing

Familiarity with SRE tooling and reliability metrics

Experience implementing AI-assisted operations (AIOps) and predictive analytics

Strong systems thinking and engineering mindset

Excellent troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills

Ability to lead cross-functional technical recovery efforts

Strong communication and executive presentation skills

Proven ability to influence engineering standards and drive operational excellence

Commitment to continuous improvement through automation and reliability engineering

Description Job Description Project Overview

Seeking a highly technical Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with deep expertise in enterprise backup engineering, cyber recovery, and platform resiliency

Responsible for engineering highly available, secure, and automated recovery capabilities that protect against operational failures, ransomware, and other cyber threats

Combines traditional SRE principles (automation, observability, reliability engineering, and resilience) with experience designing and operating enterprise backup platforms, immutable storage, air-gapped cyber vaults, isolated recovery environments (IREs), and recovery orchestration

Partners closely with Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Cloud Engineering, Application Development, and Disaster Recovery teams to ensure critical services remain recoverable, resilient, and continuously validated

Engineer and maintain highly available, resilient enterprise platforms using SRE principles

Define and measure Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets for backup and recovery services

Develop automation to reduce operational toil and improve reliability

Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent corrective actions

Continuously improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, and recoverability

Establish proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability for backup and cyber recovery platforms

Participate in incident response and major incident recovery activities

Design, implement, and administer enterprise backup and recovery solutions across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS platforms

Engineer immutable backup architectures that support ransomware resilience

Design backup strategies for virtual environments, physical servers, databases, Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud-native workloads, NAS/Object Storage, and enterprise applications

Optimize backup performance, retention, replication, encryption, and recovery objectives

Implement policy-based backup automation and lifecycle management

Ensure compliance with enterprise RPO and RTO requirements

Design and implement enterprise cyber recovery solutions including air-gapped recovery vaults, clean rooms, Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE), and immutable storage architectures

Develop secure recovery workflows following cyberattack scenarios

Engineer automated malware scanning and recovery validation processes

Design and test recovery orchestration for severe-but-plausible cyber events

Support recovery point validation and promotion into production recovery environments

Collaborate with Cyber Security teams on ransomware resilience strategies

Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Recovery as Code automation

Build automated recovery runbooks using Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Python, and GitHub Actions

Automate recovery validation, reporting, and compliance evidence generation

Eliminate manual recovery processes wherever possible

Implement monitoring for backup success rates, replication health, recovery readiness, storage utilization, cyber vault health, and infrastructure dependencies

Build dashboards for executive and operational visibility

Integrate with enterprise observability platforms (Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus)

Plan and execute cyber recovery exercises, clean room validation, air-gap recovery testing, full isolated recovery environment exercises, Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) testing, and Disaster Recovery testing

Validate application recoverability against defined RTO/RPO objectives

Produce executive reporting on recovery readiness and testing outcomes