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Staff Cyber Resilience Engineer

Xometry· IT & Security
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Hybrid (North Bethesda)$205k - $233kfull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior technical leader responsible for designing, building, and validating the organization’s recovery and cyber resilience capabilities, including an Isolated Recovery Environment, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), automated recovery workflows, and regular recovery drills in a multi-cloud/AWS environment.

Responsibilities

  • Own Our Recovery Architecture
  • Design and build our Isolated Recovery Environment — a hardened AWS account with immutable vaults that break the attacker’s kill chain before it reaches our data
  • Threat model our environment with a deep understanding of cloud-native attack patterns: IAM privilege escalation, backup deletion, ransomware persistence, and lateral movement across accounts
  • Validate and continuously improve backup configurations to ensure recoverability, not just existence
  • Standardize and Automate Infrastructure
  • Lead our transition to 100% Infrastructure as Code. Every asset (VPCs, IAM roles, security groups) must be defined in Terraform so we can redeploy the entire stack into a clean account via automated pipeline
  • Build automated recovery workflows that can tear down a compromised environment and bootstrap a fresh, hardened one from verified code and clean data
  • Write and maintain executable recovery playbooks that detail the exact API calls and CLI commands needed to restore the application — tested, versioned, and runnable, not static documents
  • Validate, Test, and Lead Exercises
  • Develop automated scripts (Python or Go) to smoke test recovered data and validate integrity post-restoration
  • Lead regular hands-on recovery drills that simulate total loss of a critical environment and full recovery into a secondary clean account. Own the after-action process and drive improvements
  • Drive Engineering Standards
  • Act as the resilience authority for the engineering organization — shaping high-availability architecture decisions, influencing design reviews, and raising the floor on how we think about recoverability
  • Partner with the Site Reliability Engineering team on multi-region deployments and high-availability design, ensuring cyber resilience is embedded in architecture from the start
  • Champion IaC and immutable infrastructure practices across teams, not just within your own workstream

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in complex cloud environments (any of AWS/GCP/Azure), including at least 3 years in AWS
  • EKS/Kubernetes experience is a strong plus
  • Strong Terraform skills; modularize complex environments to be 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
  • Proven ability to engineer and automate end-to-end restoration workflows
  • Preferred: Hands-on experience leading technical recovery efforts from an actual cyber attack or destructive incident
  • Preferred: Experience with chaos engineering tooling to stress-test recovery assumptions
  • Preferred: Familiarity with NIST SP 800-34 (Contingency Planning) or similar frameworks
  • Preferred: AWS Security Specialty certification or equivalent demonstrated expertise

Skills

Required:Recovery architecture designTerraformPython or GoCI/CD tooling

Benefits

  • 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 wellbeing resources
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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