Cyber Recovery Engineer / Disaster Recovery Engineer

Prairie Consulting Services; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 119,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Prairie Consulting Services in Chicago is seeking a Cyber Recovery Engineer with strong infrastructure/DevOps experience to support enterprise resilience, disaster recovery, and clean room recovery operations within a highly regulated environment.

This role is ideal for someone with backup/recovery platforms experience and a drive to deepen cyber resilience engineering, including automation and audits across IT, networking, and security teams.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Familiar with backup/recovery platforms and automation.
• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash) and basic networking knowledge.
• Familiarity with FFIEC, NIST, or similar regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Infra engineering

Backup recovery

PowerShell scripting

Python scripting

Networking basics

Regulatory frameworks

Tools

Cohesity

Rubrik

Veeam

Zerto

Commvault

NetBackup

Job description

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/DevOps 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 PowerShell, Python, or Bash


• Maintain audit, compliance, and recovery documentation


• Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, and security teams

Required Experience

• 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 NetBackup


• Basic scripting experience (PowerShell, Python, or Bash)


• Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, VLANs, firewall rules)


• Familiarity with FFIEC, NIST, or similar regulatory frameworks

Nice to Have

• Clean room or isolated recovery environment (IRE) exposure


• ServiceNow or ITSM workflows


• Cyber recovery / ransomware exercise participation


• Security or cloud certifications