Cyber Recovery & Resilience Engineer (DR/Backups)

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

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