Staff Cyber Resilience Engineer

About the role

The Staff Cyber Resilience Engineer leads the defense against critical cyber threats, focusing on ransomware, destructive wipes, and data loss at scale. The role involves designing and engineering the Isolated Recovery Environment, setting standards for Infrastructure as Code, and ensuring rapid and certain recovery in case of AWS environment compromise.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and engineering of the Isolated Recovery Environment, a hardened AWS account with immutable vaults to disrupt attackers' strategies.
• Threat model the environment with a deep understanding of cloud-native attack patterns and validate backup configurations for recoverability.
• Lead the transition to 100% Infrastructure as Code, automating recovery workflows, and writing executable recovery playbooks.
• Develop and lead hands-on recovery drills that simulate total loss of critical environments and full recovery into secondary clean accounts.
• Drive engineering standards, shaping high-availability architecture decisions, and championing IaC and immutable infrastructure practices across teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in complex cloud environments, including at least 3 years in AWS. EKS/Kubernetes experience is a strong plus.
• Strong Terraform skills, capable of modularizing complex environments.
• Hands-on familiarity with the Secure Vault pattern and advanced shell scripting.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and proven ability to engineer and automate end-to-end restoration workflows.

Preferred

• Hands-on experience leading technical recovery efforts from actual cyber attacks or destructive incidents.
• Experience with chaos engineering tooling.
• Familiarity with NIST SP 800-34 or similar frameworks.
• AWS Security Specialty certification or equivalent expertise.

Benefits

The estimated base salary range for new hires into this role is $205,000- $233,000 annually + annual bonus. Additional benefits include 401(k) match, medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and disability insurance; generous paid time off; EAP, and other wellbeing resources.