Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Backup Engineer

ICON Technologies; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ICON Technologies in Chicago, IL is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Backup Engineer to design and operate secure, highly available backup and recovery solutions. You will work in a hybrid setup, collaborating across security, cloud, and infrastructure teams to prevent outages and ransomware impact.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience with enterprise backup platforms, cloud-recovery, and automation tools, with strong leadership and cross-functional communication skills.

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in Backup Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or SRE.
• Experience with enterprise backup platforms listed (Cohesity, Dell PowerProtect, Data Domain, etc.).
• Hands-on with immutable backups, air-gapped vaults, and recovery orchestration.
• Cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and cross-region recovery.
• Strong infrastructure knowledge: VMware, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Windows Server, AD.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate secure, highly available backup/recovery solutions.
• Implement automated backup and recovery pipelines with CI/CD tooling.
• Monitor and improve resiliency, SLOs/SLIs, and incident response.
• Lead cross-functional efforts with security, networking, and application teams.

Skills

7 years experience

Strong communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical leadership

Tools

Cohesity

Dell PowerProtect

Data Domain

Dell Cyber Recovery

Rubrik

Commvault

Veritas NetBackup

Veeam

Dynatrace

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

ELK

ServiceNow

Terraform

Ansible

Python

PowerShell

Bash

GitHub Actions

VMware

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Linux

Windows Server

Active Directory

Job description

Senior SRE / Backup Engineer

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Backup Engineer with strong expertise in enterprise backup, cyber recovery, automation, and platform resiliency. The ideal candidate will design and operate secure, highly available, and automated backup/recovery solutions that protect critical systems against operational failures and ransomware.

Key Responsibilities & Skills:

• 7 years of experience in Backup Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or SRE.
• Strong experience with enterprise backup platforms such as Cohesity, Dell PowerProtect, Data Domain, Dell Cyber Recovery, Rubrik, Commvault, Veritas NetBackup, or Veeam.
• Hands-on experience with immutable backups, air-gapped vaults, Clean Rooms, Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE), ransomware recovery, and recovery orchestration.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, including cloud-native backup and hybrid/cross-region recovery.
• Strong infrastructure knowledge: VMware, Hyper-V, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Windows Server, Active Directory, and enterprise storage.
• Automation experience with Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, Bash, GitHub/GitHub Actions, and CI/CD.
• Experience with Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, or ServiceNow for monitoring and observability.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust, IAM, MFA, encryption/key management, NIST, and secure recovery practices.
• Experience defining SLOs, SLIs, RPO/RTO, conducting RCA, incident response, and reliability improvements.
• Experience conducting cyber recovery, disaster recovery, clean-room, air-gap, and isolated recovery testing.
• Strong communication, troubleshooting, cross-functional collaboration, and technical leadership skills.