Senior Cyber Resiliency & Cloud Backup Architect

Spectraforce Technologies; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior Backup Engineer to design, implement, and automate enterprise backup, cyber recovery, and data protection across hybrid cloud and on‑prem environments. The role emphasizes IaC, immutable air‑gapped architectures, and rigorous recovery testing.

The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in enterprise backup technologies, cloud infrastructure, Terraform development, scripting, and large‑scale recovery validation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of enterprise backup engineering experience.
• 5+ years designing enterprise backup architectures.
• Experience supporting Fortune 500 or highly regulated environments.
• Extensive experience with hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of cyber resiliency principles.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and optimize enterprise backup and recovery platforms across physical, virtual, cloud, and containerized workloads.
• Lead the architecture and operational management of immutable and air-gapped backup environments to defend against ransomware and destructive cyber events.
• Develop enterprise backup standards, engineering patterns, and operational procedures.
• Perform capacity planning, lifecycle management, performance tuning, and storage optimization.
• Ensure backup solutions consistently meet enterprise RTO, RPO, security, and compliance requirements.
• Design and engineer logically and physically isolated cyber recovery environments.
• Implement immutable backup strategies utilizing modern cyber vault technologies.
• Validate secure backup replication into isolated environments.
• Build automated processes for backup validation and malware-free recovery verification.
• Partner with Cyber Security teams to support ransomware recovery strategies and cyber resilience initiatives.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules for deploying backup infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Automate backup deployments using Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Create automation utilizing PowerShell, Python, Bash, REST APIs, JSON/YAML.
• Build self-service deployment capabilities and standardized backup patterns.
• Integrate automation into enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and maintain dedicated backup testing and validation environments.
• Design automated recovery validation frameworks.
• Lead enterprise recovery exercises including backup restore validation, bare metal, database, file, VM, cloud workload recoveries.
• Continuously improve testing automation to increase confidence in recoverability.
• Engineer backup solutions supporting AWS, Microsoft Azure, Private Cloud, VMware, Hyper‑V, Kubernetes/OpenShift, traditional on‑prem infrastructure.
• Support cloud-native backup strategies including immutable object storage and cloud disaster recovery.
• Build engineering standards and reusable automation frameworks.
• Evaluate emerging backup and cyber recovery technologies.
• Optimize backup performance and reduce operational complexity.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership.
• Participate in architecture reviews and enterprise resiliency initiatives.

Skills

Technical leadership

Enterprise backup expertise

Regulatory compliance understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Cohesity

Dell PowerProtect Data Domain

Dell PowerProtect Data Manager

Dell Cyber Recovery Vault

Rubrik

Veeam

Commvault

Veritas NetBackup

Job description

Spectraforce Technologies in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior Backup Engineer to design, implement, and automate enterprise backup, cyber recovery, and data protection across hybrid cloud and on‑prem environments. The role emphasizes IaC, immutable air‑gapped architectures, and rigorous recovery testing.

The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in enterprise backup technologies, cloud infrastructure, Terraform development, scripting, and large‑scale recovery validation.