Senior SRE - Cyber Recovery & Backup Engineer

Spectraforce Technologies

Chicago (IL)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

12 days ago

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Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies in Chicago, IL seeks a Senior SRE/Backup Engineer to design and operate enterprise backup platforms, immutable storage, and air-gapped cyber vaults. You will lead recovery orchestration, automate recovery workflows, and partner with Cyber Security and Cloud teams to validate recoverability across on-prem and cloud environments.

The role emphasizes SRE principles, incident response, and resilience testing to ensure critical services remain recoverable during cyber

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent experience.
7+ years in Backup Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.
5+ years designing enterprise backup solutions.
3+ years supporting cyber recovery architectures.
Experience implementing SRE principles within enterprise infrastructure environments.
Strong understanding of distributed systems and high availability architectures.

Responsibilities

Engineer highly available, resilient enterprise platforms using SRE principles.
Define and measure SLOs/SLIs and error budgets for backup and recovery services.
Develop automation to reduce operational toil and improve reliability.
Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent corrective actions.
Continuously improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, and recoverability.
Establish proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability for backup and cyber recovery platforms.
Participate in incident response and major incident recovery activities.