Staff Cyber Resilience Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of our Recovery Architecture.

• Design and construct our Isolated Recovery Environment.

• Conduct threat modeling of our environment with a comprehensive understanding of cloud-native attack patterns.

• Validate and continuously enhance backup configurations.

• Standardize and automate infrastructure processes.

• Lead the transition to fully adopting Infrastructure as Code.

• Develop automated recovery workflows.

• Create and maintain executable recovery playbooks.

• Validate, test, and oversee recovery exercises.

• Create automated scripts to perform smoke tests on recovered data.

• Conduct regular hands-on recovery drills.

• Uphold engineering standards.

• Serve as the resilience authority within the engineering organization.

• Collaborate with the Site Reliability Engineering team to design for high availability.

• Advocate for Infrastructure as Code and immutable infrastructure practices across teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in complex cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including at least 3 years in AWS.

• Experience with EKS/Kubernetes is a significant advantage.

• Proficient in Terraform.

• Hands-on experience with the Secure Vault pattern.

• Advanced shell scripting skills and proficiency in either Python or Go for automating restoration tasks.

• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (such as Scalr, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).

• Proven track record in engineering and automating end-to-end restoration workflows.

• Preferably has hands-on experience leading technical recovery efforts following a cyber attack or destructive incident.

• Experience with chaos engineering tools for stress-testing recovery assumptions is preferred.

• Knowledge of NIST SP 800-34 (Contingency Planning) or similar frameworks is preferred.

• AWS Security Specialty certification or equivalent demonstrated expertise is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• 401(k) matching.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Generous paid time off including vacation, sick leave, floating and fixed holidays, maternity and bonding leave.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and other wellbeing resources.

• And much more.