Cyber Recovery Engineer

Prairie Consulting Services; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Prairie Consulting Services in Chicago, IL is seeking a Cyber Recovery Engineer to support design, operation and testing of a cyber recovery and resilience program in a regulated financial services environment. This is a hybrid role covering Jersey City, Chicago, and Tempe locations.

Ideal candidates have 7–10 years in infrastructure, IT operations, or security‑adjacent roles with hands‑on DR/backups experience and familiarity with enterprise platforms and regulatory frameworks such as FFIEC and

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of infrastructure engineering, IT operations, or security‑adjacent experience.
• Experience within a financial institution or highly regulated environment.
• Hands‑on exposure to disaster recovery, backups, or restore operations.
• Experience with at least one enterprise platform such as Cohesity, Rubrik, Veeam, Zerto, Commvault, or NetBackup.
• Basic scripting experience with Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Understanding of VLANs, firewalls, DNS, routing, and network isolation.
• Strong technical documentation and procedure‑writing skills.
• Familiarity with FFIEC, NIST CSF, NYDFS, or similar regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Support Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE) and clean room operations.
• Execute recovery runbooks during DR tests, tabletop exercises, and recovery simulations.
• Monitor and troubleshoot enterprise backup and replication platforms.
• Support backup policies, retention, replication, and restore testing.
• Document recovery procedures, test results, deviations, and remediation activities.
• Assist with regulatory documentation, audit evidence, and control narratives.
• Support recovery automation using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Work with Terraform, Ansible, or other IaC tools.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and database teams on recovery dependencies.
• Participate in after‑action reviews and help drive recovery findings to closure.

Job description

Cyber Recovery Engineer – Financial Services

Hybrid role, Location: Jersey City, NJ/Chicago, IL/Tempe, AZ

We’re looking for a Cyber Recovery Engineer to join a regulated financial services environment and help support the design, operation, and testing of a growing cyber recovery and resilience program.

This is a hands‑on opportunity for an infrastructure, IT operations, or security‑focused engineer who has experience with disaster recovery, backups, or enterprise infrastructure and wants to grow deeper into cyber resilience and recovery engineering.

What You’ll Do

• Support Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE) and clean room operations
• Execute recovery runbooks during DR tests, tabletop exercises, and recovery simulations
• Monitor and troubleshoot enterprise backup and replication platforms
• Support backup policies, retention, replication, and restore testing
• Document recovery procedures, test results, deviations, and remediation activities
• Assist with regulatory documentation, audit evidence, and control narratives
• Support recovery automation using Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Work with Terraform, Ansible, or other IaC tools
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, and database teams on recovery dependencies
• Participate in after‑action reviews and help drive recovery findings to closure

What We’re Looking For

• 7–10 years of infrastructure engineering, IT operations, or security‑adjacent experience
• Experience within a financial institution or highly regulated environment
• Hands‑on exposure to disaster recovery, backups, or restore operations
• Experience with at least one enterprise platform such as:
• Cohesity, Rubrik, Veeam, Zerto, Commvault, or NetBackup
• Basic scripting experience with Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Understanding of VLANs, firewalls, DNS, routing, and network isolation
• Strong technical documentation and procedure‑writing skills
• Familiarity with FFIEC, NIST CSF, NYDFS, or similar regulatory frameworks

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting an IRE or clean room recovery exercise
• Regulatory audit/examination or technology controls experience
• Terraform or Ansible
• ServiceNow / ITSM and change‑management experience
• Ransomware response or cyber incident response tabletop experience
• Security+, CySA+, AWS/Azure fundamentals, or backup‑platform certifications

This is a great opportunity for an engineer who wants to build expertise at the intersection of infrastructure, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and regulatory resilience.

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