Information Technology - DevOps Engineer; Cloud Engineer Job Chicago area,Illinois USA,IT/Tech

Position: Information Technology - DevOps Engineer (Cloud Engineer)

Job Title:

Information Technology - Dev Ops 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 Power Protect Data Manager
Dell Data Domain
Dell Cyber Recovery
Rubrik
Commvault
Veritas Net Backup
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
Open Shift
Linux
Windows Server
Active Directory
Enterprise storage platforms
Ansible
Terraform
Python
Power Shell
Bash
Git Hub
Git Hub Actions
CI/CD pipelines
Dynatrace
Grafana
Prometheus
Splunk
ELK Stack
Service Now
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/Open Shift, 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…