Senior Backup Engineer - Cyber Resiliency & Cloud Automation

Job Title:

Senior Backup Engineer - Cyber Resiliency & Cloud Automation

Duration: 9+ months, (Potential Contract-to-Hire)

Location:

Chicago, IL - onsite 3 days per week| open to Tempe, AZ or other NT locations where a candidate could go into a local NT office

We are seeking a highly technical Senior Backup Engineer to assist with designing, implementing, automating, and continuously improve enterprise backup, cyber recovery, and data protection platforms across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments along with a DTE (Dedicated Testing Environment). This role will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for modernizing backup infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, immutable air-gapped architectures, and recovery testing.

The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in enterprise backup technologies, cyber resiliency, cloud infrastructure, Terraform development, scripting, and large-scale recovery validation. They should be comfortable architecting secure solutions while driving automation and operational excellence within a highly regulated enterprise.

Experience Level: 3 - Senior

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of enterprise backup engineering experience.
• 5+ years designing enterprise backup architectures.
• Experience supporting Fortune 500 or highly regulated environments.
• Extensive experience with hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of cyber resiliency principles.

• Cohesity
• Dell Power Protect Data Domain
• Dell Power Protect Data Manager
• Dell Cyber Recovery Vault
• Rubrik
• Veeam
• Commvault
• Veritas Net Backup

• Immutable backup repositories
• Air-gapped backup solutions
• Cyber recovery vaults
• Secure recovery environments
• Clean room recovery concepts
• Ransomware recovery strategies

• AWS
• Microsoft Azure
• Azure Local
• VMware Cloud
• Kubernetes/Open Shift

• Terraform
• Terraform Modules
• Git Hub
• Git-based workflows
• CI/CD pipelines

• Power Shell
• Python
• Bash
• REST APIs
• JSON/YAML

• Windows Server
• Linux (RHEL preferred)
• VMware ESXi

• Experience designing enterprise cyber recovery architectures.
• Knowledge of NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-209, and ransomware recovery best practices.
• Experience integrating backup platforms with SIEM, monitoring, and automation tools.
• Familiarity with enterprise observability platforms such as Dynatrace or Splunk.
• Experience with storage technologies including Dell Power Store, Power Scale, Net App, or Pure Storage.
• Experience supporting financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Relevant certifications (AWS, Azure, VMware, Hashi Corp Terraform, Cohesity, Dell Technologies, Veeam, or similar).

• Exceptional troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Strong automation-first mindset.
• Ability to simplify complex technical problems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaborative leader capable of influencing cross-functional engineering teams.
• Passion for continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Ability to mentor engineers while driving engineering standards and best practices.

• Design, implement, administer, and optimize enterprise backup and recovery platforms across physical, virtual, cloud, and containerized workloads.
• Lead the architecture and operational management of immutable and air-gapped backup environments to defend against ransomware and destructive cyber events.
• Develop enterprise backup standards, engineering patterns, and operational procedures.
• Perform capacity planning, lifecycle management, performance tuning, and storage optimization.
• Ensure backup solutions consistently meet enterprise RTO, RPO, security, and compliance requirements.

• Design and engineer logically and physically isolated cyber recovery environments.
• Implement immutable backup strategies utilizing modern cyber vault technologies.
• Validate secure backup replication into isolated environments.
• Build automated processes for backup validation and malware-free recovery verification.
• Partner with Cyber Security teams to support ransomware recovery strategies and cyber resilience initiatives.

• Develop reusable Terraform modules for deploying backup infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Automate backup deployments using Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Create automation utilizing:
• Power Shell
• Python
• Bash
• REST APIs
• Build self-service deployment capabilities and standardized backup patterns.
• Integrate automation into enterprise CI/CD pipelines.

• Build and maintain dedicated backup testing and validation environments.
• Design automated recovery validation frameworks.
• Lead enterprise recovery exercises including:
• Backup restore validation
• Bare metal recovery testing
• Database…