Senior Cyber Recovery Engineer (Level 2)

Senior Cyber Recovery Engineer


Location: Chicago, Illinois (Onsite)

Employment Type: Contract

Duration : 12 months w/extension


Role Overview

The Senior Cyber Recovery Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously validating the ability to recover critical systems and data following a cyber event. This role involves infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance within a financial services environment. The successful candidate will have direct experience with financial institution recovery programs, regulatory engagement, and executing recovery exercises within isolated recovery environments (IRE) and clean room configurations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE) and clean room infrastructure for cyber recovery exercises.
• Execute end-to-end recovery testing cycles, validating RTOs and RPOs for critical applications.
• Develop and maintain recovery runbooks, playbooks, and automation scripts for system restoration.
• Serve as a subject matter expert during regulatory examinations and audits related to cyber recovery.
• Translate regulatory guidance into actionable recovery engineering requirements.
• Architect and operate air-gapped or logically isolated backup and replication pipelines.
• Engineer network segmentation and identity isolation controls within the IRE.
• Own the cyber recovery exercise calendar, designing various threat scenarios.
• Lead post-exercise reviews and drive measurable improvements in recovery capability.
• Mentor junior engineers on recovery engineering practices and clean room protocols.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of infrastructure, platform, or resilience engineering experience, with at least 4 years in a regulated financial institution.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience implementing and testing cyber recovery in an Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE) or clean room.
• Direct experience engaging with financial regulators (e.g., OCC, FDIC, Federal Reserve) in the context of technology examinations.
• Proficiency with enterprise backup and replication platforms such as Cohesity, Rubrik, Zerto, Veeam, Commvault, or NetBackup.
• Working knowledge of IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible) and scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Understanding of network segmentation, identity isolation, and zero-trust concepts in clean room environments.
• Familiarity with ransomware TTPs, destructive malware incident response, and forensic triage.
• Experience with FFIEC guidance, NIST CSF, and/or DORA requirements for operational resilience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a GSIB, SIFI, or Category I-III bank.
• Certifications such as CISSP, CISA, AWS/Azure Disaster Recovery specialty, or vendor-specific backup platform certifications.
• Exposure to DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) implementation.
• Familiarity with SWIFT, FedWire, or CHIPS recovery considerations.
• Experience with cyber recovery in hybrid cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Background in incident response or cyber threat intelligence with a recovery engineering focus.

Compensation & Benefits

The pay rate for this position is between $95.00 and $110.00 per hour. Specific compensation will be determined based on experience and qualifications. Benefits may be available to eligible employees.

This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click here for more details.


Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.