IT Resilience Architect & Disaster Recovery

University of Chicago; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

The Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Specialist at the University of Chicago’s ITS supports the university’s resiliency program, helping ensure critical systems and data can be recovered after disruptions such as cyberattacks, outages, or vendor issues.

Working with campus partners, the role develops strategy, coordinates testing, reports recovery risk to the CISO and leadership, and maintains the annual recovery testing program across systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, information security, or related field.
• 5–7 years of experience in disaster recovery, IT resiliency, or business continuity.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise backup platforms (Commvault, NetBackup, Rubrik, Cohesity).
• Immutable or isolated backup storage and replication/recovery orchestration tools.
• Planning and running recovery tests or tabletop exercises.
• Familiar with recovery of identity systems (Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the IT resiliency strategy and multi-year roadmap.
• Maintain the backup and recovery standard, including immutability, isolation, encryption, retention, and testing frequency.
• Maintain RTOs/RPOs and coordinate with system owners on business impact analysis.
• Serve as ISO’s point of contact for resiliency architecture and review recoverability of new systems.
• Plan and report on technical recovery tests and tabletop exercises.
• Coordinate recovery activities during major incidents with incident response and leadership.

Skills

Incident response

Identity and access management

Ransomware patterns

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, information security, or related field

Tools

Commvault

NetBackup

Rubrik

Cohesity

VMware Site Recovery Manager

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

AWS Backup

Azure Site Recovery

Job description

The Disaster Recovery and Resiliency Specialist at the University of Chicago’s ITS supports the university’s resiliency program, helping ensure critical systems and data can be recovered after disruptions such as cyberattacks, outages, or vendor issues.

Working with campus partners, the role develops strategy, coordinates testing, reports recovery risk to the CISO and leadership, and maintains the annual recovery testing program across systems.