Cyber Recovery Managing Engineer

Employment Type:

Contract

Status:

Accepting Candidates

Description:

Cyber Recovery Managing Engineer

Location:

Chicago, IL (Onsite)
Length: 6-12 months
Start: ASAP
interview :

Video
Rate: 75-80/HR C2C
Visa: any but USC or GC only

New clean room/Cyber Room/Isolated Recovery build and will consist of hiring and managing 3-5 recovery engineers. Their responsibilities include constructing, maintaining, and establishing processes for moving workloads in and out, conducting regular tests on restores, recovery, and forensics on data, and managing the data center. Collaborating with other organizations on network, security, authorization, and firewall computing engineering. The managing engineer will oversee the entire process, requiring exposure to all areas, and assist in hiring recovery engineers specializing in data protection, storage, and compute.

The clean room will be built on-premises, as well as in Azure and AWS, with a contract-to-hire arrangement. The role is remote, with 4-5 site recovery engineers needed, and requires infrastructure management experience rather than cybersecurity expertise. The position is remote full-time, with candidates able to work EST or CST. The role demands a sense of urgency, self-starter attitude, collaborative approach, and the ability to communicate effectively with directors, senior leadership, and VPs.

Technologies involved include virtualization (Nutanix AHV), storage (Hitachi Sands VSP model, Net App), Cisco network shop, Infoblox DNS, Palo Alto firewall team, data protection (Rubrik/Oracle CDL), authentication, (Active Directory), Azure and AWS (SharePoint/Outlook), HP servers, databases (Oracle, SQL, possible Mongo), Red Hat Linux, F5 , Rancher/Kubernetes engineer (Rancher on Nutanix).

The Infrastructure Cyber Recovery Managing Engineer contributes to and directs and drives the engineering resources involved in the management of network computing, and storage infrastructure which supports Clean Room recovery capabilities. The Clean Room consists of the hardware and software platforms required to support the most critical business functions needed when normal production systems are not accessible or available. This role encompasses managing detailed system design as well as implementation, testing and coordination of operational maintenance of all related systems and technologies associated with the Clean Room.

The Managing Engineer leads, counsels, motivates, sets expectations and evaluates the team responsible for maintaining the Clean Room. The Managing Engineer impacts the team and business results by working with the Clean Room Digital Product Manager to manage the prioritization and implementation of maintenance procedures and best practices for the Clean Room.

Managing Responsibilities:

• Manage team of up to 3-5 direct reports
• Manage budget for the Clean Room and its operations
• Supporting contract management for vendors associated with the Clean Room.

Preferred Experience and Qualifications:

• Experience in the delivery and support of Cyber Resiliency and Recovery Clean Room concepts and constructs
• Exposure to data protection technologies with capabilities to store immutable copies of data and that have data anomaly detection, such as Rubrik and Oracle's Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance.
• Understanding of core network switching and routing constructs
• Understanding of network security infrastructure management, such as firewall administration
• Exposure to virtual compute infrastructure management. Exposure to Nutanix AHV is a plus.
• Understanding of compute, storage and network infrastructure delivery through automation (IaaS).

Accountabilities:

• Build long-term relationships within team and amongst peers by creating an environment of safety, innovation, integrity, and honest open communication.
• Model and create an environment of accountability for direct reports and peers
• Establish vision, direction and specific objectives for team efforts allowing individual freedom of action to accomplish objectives.
• Execute HR-related processes including setting goals, collecting performance data and developing and mentoring team based on open, timely and honest feedback.
• Set and execute platform strategy, including objectives, plans and policies to develop and deliver innovative solutions and systems in support of Enterprise goals.
• Manage day to day work of direct reports by working with the Clean Room product manager to review work backlogs and prioritization of work tasks.
• Coordinate with decision makers in other departments to identify, recommend, develop, implement and support cost-effective technology solutions for all aspects of the organization.
• Drive decisions that have an impact on quality, availability and effectiveness of business activities beyond immediate teams.
• Initiate and implement continuous improvements in the Clean Room; including automation of complex tasks and delivery of cyber-attack recovery related services
• Influence direct reports, clients, service providers and peers to successfully…