Job Title:

Senior Backup Engineer -

Cyber Resiliency & Cloud Automation Duration:

9+ months, (Potential Contract-to-Hire)

Location:

Chicago, IL - onsite 3 days per week| open to Tempe, AZ or other NT locations where a candidate could go into a local NT office Position Summary We are seeking a highly technical Senior Backup Engineer to assist with designing, implementing, automating, and continuously improve enterprise backup, cyber recovery, and data protection platforms across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments along with a DTE (Dedicated Testing Environment). This role will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for modernizing backup infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, immutable air-gapped architectures, and recovery testing. The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in enterprise backup technologies, cyber resiliency, cloud infrastructure, Terraform development, scripting, and large-scale recovery validation. They should be comfortable architecting secure solutions while driving automation and operational excellence within a highly regulated enterprise.

Experience Level:

3 -

Senior Required 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. Required Technical Skills Backup Technologies Experience with one or more:
• Cohesity
• Dell PowerProtect Data Domain
• Dell PowerProtect Data Manager
• Dell Cyber Recovery Vault
• Rubrik
• Veeam
• Commvault
• Veritas NetBackup Air-Gap & Immutable Backup Deep experience implementing:
• Immutable backup repositories
• Air-gapped backup solutions
• Cyber recovery vaults
• Secure recovery environments
• Clean room recovery concepts
• Ransomware recovery strategies Cloud Platforms Experience with:
• AWS
• Microsoft Azure
• Azure Local
• VMware Cloud
• Kubernetes/OpenShift Infrastructure as Code Strong expertise in:
• Terraform
• Terraform Modules
• GitHub
• Git-based workflows
• CI/CD pipelines Scripting Advanced scripting experience with:
• PowerShell
• Python
• Bash
• REST APIs

JSON/YAML

Operating Systems Experience with:

• Windows Server
• Linux (RHEL preferred)
• VMware ESXi Preferred Qualifications
• Experience designing enterprise cyber recovery architectures.
• Knowledge of NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-209, and ransomware recovery best practices.
• Experience integrating backup platforms with SIEM, monitoring, and automation tools.
• Familiarity with enterprise observability platforms such as Dynatrace or Splunk.
• Experience with storage technologies including Dell PowerStore, PowerScale, NetApp, or Pure Storage.
• Experience supporting financial services or other highly regulated industries.
• Relevant certifications (AWS, Azure, VMware, HashiCorp Terraform, Cohesity, Dell Technologies, Veeam, or similar). Leadership Competencies
• Exceptional troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Strong automation-first mindset.
• Ability to simplify complex technical problems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Collaborative leader capable of influencing cross-functional engineering teams.
• Passion for continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Ability to mentor engineers while driving engineering standards and best practices.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

Enterprise Backup & Recovery

• 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. Air-Gapped Cyber Recovery
• 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. Automation & Infrastructure as Code
• 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: o PowerShell o Python o Bash o REST APIs
• Build self-service depl