Ransomware Recovery & Cyber Vault Administrator

Location: Oakland, CA
Duration: 6 Months

Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain cyber recovery vault environments and infrastructure.
• Manage secure replication of backup data into isolated vault environments.
• Monitor vault health, replication status, capacity utilization, and recovery readiness.
• Validate cyber recovery procedures through regular testing and recovery exercises.
• Coordinate vault access controls, security reviews, and compliance requirements.
• Install, configure, maintain, and upgrade Dell Data Domain appliances.
• Manage backup storage, retention policies, replication, and disaster recovery configurations.
• Monitor system performance, deduplication efficiency, capacity growth, and health metrics.
• Troubleshoot backup and replication failures.
• Implement and maintain Data Domain security and hardening standards.
• Administer Dell CyberSense analytics platform.
• Configure CyberSense policies, scans, and ransomware detection monitoring.
• Analyze CyberSense reports and anomaly findings.
• Investigate potential data corruption indicators and ransomware threats.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to assess and respond to cyber recovery events.
• Support enterprise backup and recovery platforms.
• Develop and maintain recovery procedures and operational documentation.
• Perform backup validation, restore testing, and recovery verification activities.
• Ensure compliance with backup retention, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Support business continuity and disaster recovery initiatives.
• Implement ransomware resilience best practices.
• Ensure immutable and secure backup storage configurations.
• Participate in cyber incident response and recovery activities.
• Support audits, risk assessments, and security reviews.
• Create operational dashboards and status reporting for vault and recovery environments.
• Develop recovery readiness metrics and KPIs.
• Identify opportunities to improve cyber recovery processes, operational efficiency, and platform reliability.
• Evaluate emerging ransomware recovery technologies and industry best practices.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in enterprise backup, storage, data protection, or cybersecurity administration.
• Minimum 3 years of experience administering Dell Data Domain environments.
• Minimum 3 years of experience supporting cyber recovery vault or isolated recovery environments.
• Minimum 3 years of experience with ransomware recovery testing and disaster recovery exercises.
• Proficiency in Dell Cyber Recovery Vault, Dell CyberSense, and immutable backup technologies.
• Knowledge of air-gapped recovery solutions, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Experience with enterprise backup and recovery platforms, data replication technologies, and backup retention management.
• Familiarity with Dell Data Domain, enterprise storage platforms, SAN/NAS concepts, and virtualization technologies (VMware preferred).
• Strong understanding of ransomware attack methodologies, cyber recovery strategies, and security hardening practices.
• Experience with access control and privileged access management, and incident response coordination.

Preferred Skills:

• Dell Proven Professional certifications.
• CyberSense administration experience.
• Experience managing cyber recovery vaults in highly regulated utility, energy, financial, or healthcare environments.
• Experience with cloud-based backup and recovery solutions.