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)

$105.00 w-2

We’re looking for a Cyber Recovery Engineer with strong infrastructure/Dev Ops 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.

• 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 Power Shell, Python, or Bash
• Maintain audit, compliance, and recovery documentation
• Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, and security teams

• 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 Net Backup
• Basic scripting experience (Power Shell, Python, or Bash)
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, VLANs, firewall rules)
• Familiarity with FFIEC, NIST, or similar regulatory frameworks

• Clean room or isolated recovery environment (IRE) exposure
• Service Now or ITSM workflows
• Cyber recovery / ransomware exercise participation
• Security or cloud certifications