Staff Cyber Resilience Engineer

We’re looking for a Staff Cyber Resilience Engineer to lead our defense against the attacks that matter most: ransomware, destructive wipes, and data loss at scale. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will own the design and engineering of our Isolated Recovery Environment, set the standard for Infrastructure as Code across the organization, and ensure that if our AWS environment is ever compromised, we can restore operations with certainty and speed. You will work with a high-caliber engineering team, have direct influence on our security architecture, and lead recovery exercises that test the organization end-to-end.

Responsibilities

Own design and engineering of Isolated Recovery Environment; Hardened AWS account with immutable vaults; Threat model environment with cloud-native attack patterns: IAM privilege escalation, backup deletion, ransomware persistence, lateral movement across accounts; Validate and continuously improve backup configurations; Lead transition to 100% Infrastructure as Code using Terraform; Build automated recovery workflows to tear down compromised environment and bootstrap fresh hardened one; Write and maintain executable recovery playbooks; Develop automated scripts (Python or Go) to smoke test recovered data; Lead regular hands-on recovery drills; Own after-action process and drive improvements; Act as resilience authority for engineering organization; Partner with Site Reliability Engineering team on multi-region deployments and high-availability design; Champion IaC and immutable infrastructure practices

Requirements

8+ years of experience in complex cloud environments (any of AWS/GCP/Azure), including at least 3 years in AWS; Strong Terraform skills, able to modularize complex environments so they are environment-agnostic; Hands-on familiarity with the Secure Vault pattern: protecting data in a separate, highly restricted AWS account with tight network controls; Advanced shell scripting and proficiency in either Python or Go to automate restoration tasks that native AWS tooling doesn’t cover; Experience with CI/CD tooling (Scalr, GitHub Actions, or equivalent) to enable broad adoption of recovery pipelines across the organization; Proven ability to engineer and automate end-to-end restoration workflows

Nice to have

EKS/Kubernetes experience; Hands-on experience leading technical recovery efforts from an actual cyber attack or destructive incident; Experience with chaos engineering tooling to stress-test recovery assumptions; Familiarity with NIST SP 800-34 (Contingency Planning) or similar frameworks; AWS Security Specialty certification or equivalent demonstrated expertise

Benefits

Bonus; 401(k) match; 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; EAP and other wellbeing resources