Information Technology - DevOps Engineer (Cloud Engineer)

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Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong expertise in enterprise backup engineering, cyber recovery, infrastructure resiliency, automation, and observability .

The ideal candidate will design and operate secure, highly available recovery platforms across on-premises, cloud, virtualized, and containerized environments , with a strong focus on ransomware resilience, immutable backups, cyber recovery vaults, recovery automation, and SRE best practices .

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering , or equivalent professional experience.

Required Experience

• 7+ years of experience in Backup Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related infrastructure roles.

• 5+ years designing and supporting enterprise backup and recovery solutions.

• 3+ years supporting cyber recovery, cyber resiliency, or ransomware recovery architectures.

• Hands-on experience implementing SRE principles , automation, reliability engineering, monitoring, and operational resilience.

• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, high availability, disaster recovery, RPO/RTO, and enterprise infrastructure architecture .

Backup & Recovery Technologies

Hands-on experience with one or more of the following:

• Cohesity

• Dell PowerProtect Data Manager

• Dell Data Domain

• Dell Cyber Recovery

• Rubrik

• Commvault

• Veritas NetBackup

• Veeam

Cyber Recovery & Resiliency

Strong experience with:

• Air-gapped cyber recovery vaults

• Immutable backups and immutable storage

• Clean Rooms

• Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE)

• Recovery orchestration

• Cyber resilience testing

• Ransomware recovery

• Recovery validation

• Bare Metal Recovery (BMR)

• Secure recovery workflows

• Disaster Recovery testing

• RPO/RTO validation

Cloud & Infrastructure

Experience supporting:

• Microsoft Azure

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Cloud-native backup and recovery

• Cross-region recovery

• Hybrid-cloud resiliency

• VMware

• Hyper-V

• Kubernetes

• OpenShift

• Linux

• Windows Server

• Active Directory

• Enterprise storage platforms

Automation / Infrastructure as Code

Strong hands-on experience with:

• Ansible

• Terraform

• Python

• PowerShell

• Bash

• GitHub

• GitHub Actions

• CI/CD pipelines

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Recovery as Code

Observability & Monitoring

Experience with:

• Dynatrace

• Grafana

• Prometheus

• Splunk

• ELK Stack

• ServiceNow

Security & Compliance

Strong understanding of:

• Zero Trust architecture

• NIST Cybersecurity Framework

• CIS Controls

• Encryption and key management

• Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

• Secure recovery processes

Key Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and maintain highly available enterprise backup and recovery platforms using SRE principles .

• Define and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets for backup and recovery services.

• Develop automation to reduce operational toil and improve platform reliability.

• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement permanent corrective actions.

• Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, availability, and recoverability.

• Build proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability for backup and cyber recovery platforms.

• Participate in incident response, major incident management, and recovery operations.

• Design and administer enterprise backup solutions across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, virtual machines, physical servers, databases, Kubernetes/OpenShift, NAS, object storage, and enterprise applications .

• Engineer immutable backup architectures supporting ransomware resilience.

• Optimize backup performance, retention, replication, encryption, and recovery objectives.

• Implement policy-based backup automation and lifecycle management.

• Ensure backup and recovery environments meet defined RPO and RTO requirements .

• Design and implement air-gapped recovery vaults, Clean Rooms, IRE environments, and immutable storage architectures .

• Develop secure recovery workflows for cyberattack and ransomware scenarios.

• Automate malware scanning, recovery-point validation, and recovery readiness checks.

• Design and test recovery orchestration for severe cyber disruption scenarios.

• Work closely with Cyber Security teams to develop ransomware resilience strategies.

• Develop Infrastructure as Code and Recovery as Code solutions.

• Create automated recovery runbooks using Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, and GitHub Actions .

• Automate recovery validation, compliance reporting, and evidence generation.

• Implement monitoring for backup success rates, replication health, cyber vault health, recovery readiness, storage utilization, and infrastructure dependencies.

• Build dashboards for operational teams and executive leadership.

• Integrate backup and recovery platforms with Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, and other enterprise monitoring tools .

• Plan and execute cyber recovery exercises, Clean Room validation, air-gap recovery testing, isolated recovery exercises, BMR testing, and Disaster Recovery testing.

• Validate application recoverability against defined business RTO/RPO requirements.

• Prepare executive-level reporting on cyber recovery readiness, resilience testing, risks, and remediation activities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within financial services, banking, insurance, or another highly regulated industry .

• Experience supporting GSIB cyber resiliency programs .

• Understanding of regulatory expectations from organizations such as the Federal Reserve, OCC, and FFIEC .

• Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing.

• Strong understanding of SRE reliability metrics and operational excellence practices.

• Experience implementing AIOps, intelligent monitoring, or predictive analytics .

• Excellent troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.

• Ability to lead cross-functional technical recovery initiatives.

• Strong communication and executive presentation skills.

• Proven ability to influence engineering standards and improve operational reliability.

• Strong commitment to automation, continuous improvement, and resilience engineering.

Key Skills

SRE | Backup Engineering | Cyber Recovery | Cohesity | Dell PowerProtect | Data Domain | Dell Cyber Recovery | Rubrik | Commvault | NetBackup | Veeam | Immutable Backup | Air-Gapped Vault | Clean Room | IRE | Ransomware Recovery | RPO/RTO | AWS | Azure | GCP | VMware | Kubernetes | OpenShift | Ansible | Terraform | Python | PowerShell | GitHub Actions | Dynatrace | Grafana | Prometheus | Splunk | ServiceNow | Zero Trust | NIST | Disaster Recovery