Senior Backup Engineer / SRE

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Job Description:

Information Technology - Dev Ops Engineer

Location: Chicago, Illinois (Onsite)

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly technical Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with expertise in enterprise backup engineering, cyber recovery, and platform resiliency. This role is responsible for engineering highly available, secure, and automated recovery capabilities. The ideal candidate will combine SRE principles with experience in designing and operating enterprise backup platforms, immutable storage, air-gapped cyber vaults, and recovery orchestration to protect the organization against operational failures and cyber threats.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer and maintain highly available, resilient enterprise platforms using SRE principles.
• Design, implement, and administer enterprise backup and recovery solutions across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS platforms.
• Design and implement enterprise cyber recovery solutions including air-gapped recovery vaults and isolated recovery environments.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Recovery as Code automation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Python.
• Define and measure Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for backup and recovery services.
• Implement monitoring for backup success rates, replication health, and recovery readiness.
• Plan and execute cyber recovery exercises, including clean room validation and air-gap recovery testing.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Cloud Engineering, and Application Development teams.

Required Qualifications

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.
• A strong understanding of distributed systems and high availability architectures.

Education:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Technical Skills:

• Backup Technologies: Experience with one or more: Cohesity, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Data Domain, Dell Cyber Recovery, Rubrik, Commvault, Veritas NetBackup, or Veeam.
• Cyber Recovery: Experience designing and operating air-gapped vaults, immutable backups, Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE), and recovery orchestration.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience with Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform, including cloud-native backup and cross-region recovery.
• Infrastructure: VMware, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Windows Server, Active Directory, and enterprise storage platforms.
• Automation: Experience with Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, Bash, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Observability: Experience with tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, or ELK Stack.
• Security: Knowledge of Zero Trust architecture, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Controls, encryption, and Identity and Access Management (IAM).

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.

Leadership Competenci s

• 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.

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 ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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