Cyber Recovery Engineer/Disaster Recovery Engineer

Cyber Recovery Engineer / Disaster Recovery Engineer Hybrid – Downtown Chicago Long-Term Opportunity | Financial Services Environment/ Resilience & Disaster Recovery Focus (Do not apply if you are not local to Chicago) We’re looking for a Cyber Recovery Engineer with strong infrastructure/DevOps experience to support enterprise resilience, disaster recovery, and clean room recovery operations within a highly regulated enterprise environment. This role is ideal for someone with experience in backup/recovery platforms, DR testing, infrastructure operations, and automation who wants to grow deeper into cyber resilience engineering. Responsibilities • Support cyber recovery and disaster recovery exercises • Maintain and monitor backup/recovery platforms • Execute restore procedures and recovery runbooks • Assist with clean room and isolated recovery environment (IRE) operations • Support recovery automation using PowerShell, Python, or Bash • Maintain audit, compliance, and recovery documentation • Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, and security teams Required Experience • 8+ years in infrastructure engineering, IT operations, or backup/recovery engineering • Experience in financial services or another regulated environment • Hands-on experience with DR testing, backups, and restore operations • Experience with Cohesity, Rubrik, Veeam, Zerto, Commvault, or NetBackup • Basic scripting experience (PowerShell, Python, or Bash) • Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, VLANs, firewall rules) • Familiarity with FFIEC, NIST, or similar regulatory frameworks Nice to Have • Clean room or isolated recovery environment (IRE) exposure • Terraform or Ansible experience • ServiceNow or ITSM workflows • Cyber recovery / ransomware exercise participation • Security or cloud certifications Please apply ASAP Vendors: if you have candidates, have hem apply here, do not reach out directly.