Senior SRE: Enterprise Backup & Cyber Recovery

KellyMitchell Group; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

Employee-Owned Profit Sharing (ESOP)

401K offered

Job summary

KellyMitchell Group seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer to support enterprise backup, cyber recovery, and platform resiliency initiatives in a hybrid Chicago setting. This role emphasizes automation, SRE practices, and scalable recovery architectures across multi-cloud and on-prem environments.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in backup/infrastructure/SRE, expertise in major backup tools, cloud platforms, IaC, and observability tooling, and a strong security-first mindset

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience in Backup Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience designing and supporting enterprise backup solutions.
• 3+ years of experience supporting cyber recovery architectures.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and highly available infrastructure.
• Experience implementing SRE methodologies within enterprise environments.
• Experience with backup technologies including Cohesity, Rubrik, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, Dell Data Domain, Dell Cyber Recovery, Commvault, Veritas NetBackup, or Veeam.
• Experience with cyber recovery solutions including air-gapped vaults, immutable backups, clean rooms, IRE, recovery orchestration, and ransomware recovery.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, VMware, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Linux, Windows Server, Active Directory, and enterprise storage platforms.
• Proficiency with Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, Bash, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK Stack, ServiceNow.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and support highly available enterprise platforms using SRE best practices.
• Define and measure SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for backup and recovery services.
• Develop automation to reduce operational overhead and improve reliability.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Improve system scalability, performance, resiliency, and recoverability.
• Support incident response and major recovery efforts.
• Design and administer enterprise backup and recovery solutions.
• Engineer immutable backup architectures for ransomware resilience.
• Develop backup strategies across virtual, physical, cloud-native, and enterprise environments.
• Optimize backup performance, retention, replication, encryption, and recovery objectives.
• Implement policy-based automation and lifecycle management.
• Ensure compliance with RPO and RTO requirements.
• Design and implement cyber recovery solutions including air-gapped vaults and IRE.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to strengthen recovery readiness.
• Develop IaC and Recovery as Code solutions.
• Build automated recovery workflows using Ansible, Terraform, Python, PowerShell, Bash, GitHub Actions.
• Implement enterprise monitoring and observability solutions.
• Create dashboards and reporting for stakeholders.

Skills

Ansible

Terraform

Python

PowerShell

Bash

GitHub Actions

SRE practices

Backup technologies

Azure

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Linux

Windows Server

Active Directory

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Tools

Dynatrace

Grafana

Prometheus

Splunk

ELK Stack

ServiceNow

Job description

KellyMitchell Group seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer to support enterprise backup, cyber recovery, and platform resiliency initiatives in a hybrid Chicago setting. This role emphasizes automation, SRE practices, and scalable recovery architectures across multi-cloud and on-prem environments.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in backup/infrastructure/SRE, expertise in major backup tools, cloud platforms, IaC, and observability tooling, and a strong security-first mindset