Ransomware Recovery & Cyber Vault Administrator
Location: Oakland, CA (Remote)
Duration: 12-month project
Position Summary
The Ransomware Recovery & Cyber Vault Administrator is responsible for designing, administering, monitoring, and maintaining the organization's cyber recovery and ransomware resilience platforms. This role focuses on protecting critical enterprise data through secure backup, vaulting, immutability, and recovery solutions. The administrator ensures cyber recovery readiness by managing Dell Data Domain, CyberSense, vault infrastructure, and data protection technologies while supporting compliance, risk reduction, and business continuity objectives.
This position works closely with cybersecurity, infrastructure, storage, database, and application teams to validate recoverability of critical systems and ensure preparedness for cyber incidents.
Key Responsibilities
Cyber Vault Administration
- Administer and maintain cyber recovery vault environments and cyber recovery 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.
Dell Data Domain Administration
- 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.
CyberSense Administration
- 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.
Data Protection Operations
- 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.
Security & Compliance
- 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.
- Maintain adherence to enterprise security standards and governance requirements.
Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- 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.
Required Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Experience
- 5+ years of experience in enterprise backup, storage, data protection, or cybersecurity administration.
- 3+ years of experience administering Dell Data Domain environments.
- 3+ years of experience supporting cyber recovery vault or isolated recovery environments.
- 3+ years of experience with ransomware recovery testing and disaster recovery exercises.
Required Technical Skills
Cyber Recovery Technologies
- Dell Cyber Recovery Vault
- Dell CyberSense
- Immutable backup technologies
- Air-gapped recovery solutions
- Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC)
Data Protection Technologies
- Enterprise backup and recovery platforms
- Data replication technologies
- Backup retention and lifecycle management
- Restore and recovery validation processes
Storage & Infrastructure
- Dell Data Domain
- Enterprise storage platforms
- SAN/NAS concepts
- Virtualization technologies (VMware preferred)
- Linux and Windows administration
Security Knowledge
- Ransomware attack methodologies
- Cyber recovery strategies
- Security hardening practices
- Access control and privileged access management
- Incident response coordination
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.
Core Competencies
- Cyber Recovery & Ransomware Resilience
- Data Protection Architecture
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Risk Management
- Problem Solving & Root Cause Analysis
- Security Operations
Metasys Technologies/NVISH is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, veteran or disability status.
