Senior Cyber Recovery Architect – Resilience Lead

Nutrien; Deerfield (IL); On-site; USD 122,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent medical, dental and vision

Retirement program with employer match

Tuition assistance and ongoing career-

Employee Assistance Programs

Annual incentive plan and long-term-in

Job summary

Nutrien is seeking a Senior Cyber Recovery Architect in Deerfield, IL to lead hands-on design, deployment, and validation of our cyber resilience framework across infrastructure engineering and cybersecurity. You will drive isolated recovery environments, automated runbooks, and end-to-end recovery testing for critical systems.

The role emphasizes live-fire exercises, data immutability, and coordination with application owners and platform teams.

Qualifications

• A relevant undergraduate degree with 10+ years of progressive engineering experience across infrastructure, platform, or organizational resilience domains; or a relevant technical diploma with 15+ years of progressive engineering experience across the same domains.
• Relevant cybersecurity or recovery certifications would be asset
• Experience implementing and validating cyber recovery strategies in Recovery Environments or clean-room infrastructure
• Active, live-fire scenario testing experience
• Automation and orchestration of recovery pipelines

Responsibilities

• Engineer secure Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE) and clean room infrastructure.
• Maintain infrastructure for cyber recovery exercises and live declared events.
• Execute end-to-end recovery testing cycles for critical systems.
• Validate Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
• Develop recovery runbooks, playbooks, and automated restoration scripts.
• Ensure workloads are sanitized for safe production re-entry.
• Validate air-gapped backup and replication pipelines.
• Enforce data immutability across secondary storage layers.
• Mitigate lateral movement and re-infection risks during restoration.
• Script reproducible IaC environments using Python and Bash.
• Partner with application owners and DBAs on recovery sequencing.
• Manage enterprise cyber recovery exercise calendar and scenarios.
• Report program maturity to CISO and Senior IT Leadership.

Skills

Infrastructure

Cyber Recovery

Disaster Recovery

IaC Automation

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Zero Trust

Ransomware TTPs

Backup Architectures

Education

Undergraduate degree in a relevant field

Relevant technical diploma with 15+ years experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Job description

Nutrien is seeking a Senior Cyber Recovery Architect in Deerfield, IL to lead hands-on design, deployment, and validation of our cyber resilience framework across infrastructure engineering and cybersecurity. You will drive isolated recovery environments, automated runbooks, and end-to-end recovery testing for critical systems.

The role emphasizes live-fire exercises, data immutability, and coordination with application owners and platform teams.