Cyber Recovery Administrator

Pivot Point Solutions•Oakland, CA

9d•$64 - $85•Hybrid

About The Position

Pivot Point Solutions is seeking a senior-level Cyber Recovery Administrator to support enterprise ransomware resilience, secure data protection, and cyber recovery operations. The position administers Dell Data Domain environments, maintains isolated cyber recovery vault infrastructure, and helps ensure critical enterprise data remains protected, recoverable, and available after cybersecurity incidents. The administrator works with cybersecurity, infrastructure, storage, database, and application teams to maintain cyber recovery readiness, investigate potential threats, and validate recovery of business-critical systems. The role includes administering cyber recovery vaults and Dell Data Domain appliances; managing secure backup replication, storage, retention, and immutable backup policies; monitoring system health and recovery readiness; and performing recovery tests, restore validation, and ransomware exercises. It also supports Dell CyberSense administration and analytics, incident response, disaster recovery and business continuity initiatives, compliance and audits, operational reporting, and the development of recovery procedures and runbooks. The position is hybrid in Oakland, California, and has a six-month contract length.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
5+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise backup, storage, data protection, or cybersecurity infrastructure administration.
3+ years of direct Dell Data Domain administration experience.
3+ years supporting or administering cyber recovery vaults or isolated recovery environments.
3+ years participating in ransomware recovery testing and disaster recovery exercises.
Strong experience installing, configuring, maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting Dell Data Domain environments.
Experience managing enterprise backup storage, replication, retention policies, and recovery configurations.
Experience working with Dell Cyber Recovery Vault or comparable isolated cyber recovery solutions.
Understanding of Dell CyberSense capabilities, including ransomware analytics, anomaly detection, and recovery validation.
Strong knowledge of immutable backup technologies, isolated recovery environments, and air-gapped recovery strategies.
Experience validating backup integrity, performing restore testing, and confirming recoverability of critical systems.
Strong understanding of enterprise backup and recovery platforms and data protection architecture.
Experience troubleshooting backup failures, replication issues, storage performance problems, and recovery incidents.
Working knowledge of enterprise storage technologies, including SAN/NAS concepts.
Experience supporting virtualized infrastructure, preferably VMware.
Working knowledge of Linux and Windows server administration.
Understanding of ransomware attack methods, cyber recovery strategies, and security hardening practices.
Familiarity with access control, privileged access management, and secure infrastructure administration.
Experience coordinating with cybersecurity, infrastructure, storage, and application teams.
Strong troubleshooting, root cause analysis, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work independently within complex enterprise infrastructure environments.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Extensive hands-on experience administering Dell Cyber Recovery Vault environments.
Direct experience configuring and managing Dell CyberSense analytics, scans, policies, and ransomware detection monitoring.
Experience integrating Dell Data Domain with enterprise backup and recovery platforms.
Experience designing, implementing, or improving isolated cyber recovery architectures.
Strong experience with immutable backups, secure replication, and vault isolation.
Experience recovering enterprise applications and infrastructure following ransomware simulations or cyber incidents.
Experience supporting large-scale recovery testing across multiple business-critical applications.
Dell Proven Professional certifications or other relevant Dell data protection credentials.
Experience supporting highly regulated utility, energy, financial services, healthcare, or critical infrastructure environments.
Experience with cloud-based backup, recovery, or data protection solutions.
Experience developing cyber recovery runbooks, recovery readiness dashboards, and operational performance metrics.
Strong knowledge of Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and enterprise cyber resilience practices.

Responsibilities

Administer, monitor, and maintain enterprise cyber recovery vault environments and supporting infrastructure.
Manage secure backup replication into isolated cyber recovery vaults.
Monitor vault health, replication status, storage capacity, system performance, and recovery readiness.
Configure and maintain vault security controls, access permissions, and isolation procedures.
Perform cyber recovery testing, restore validation, and ransomware recovery exercises.
Install, configure, administer, maintain, and upgrade Dell Data Domain appliances.
Manage Data Domain backup storage, retention policies, replication configurations, and disaster recovery capabilities.
Monitor deduplication efficiency, capacity utilization, system health, and performance trends.
Troubleshoot backup failures, replication issues, storage capacity concerns, and recovery-related incidents.
Implement and maintain security hardening standards across Data Domain and related recovery infrastructure.
Support Dell CyberSense administration, including scan configurations, monitoring policies, and analytics.
Review CyberSense reports for anomalies, potential data corruption, and indicators of ransomware activity.
Coordinate with cybersecurity teams to investigate suspicious findings and determine appropriate recovery actions.
Maintain enterprise backup and recovery platforms supporting critical business applications and infrastructure.
Configure and validate immutable backup storage and secure data retention policies.
Perform backup verification, restore testing, and recovery readiness assessments.
Develop and maintain operational procedures, recovery runbooks, system documentation, and troubleshooting guides.
Coordinate recovery testing with infrastructure, storage, database, application, and cybersecurity teams.
Participate in cyber incident response and ransomware recovery activities.
Support Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery initiatives by validating recovery procedures and technical capabilities.
Ensure recovery environments meet applicable cybersecurity, audit, compliance, and data protection requirements.
Support risk assessments, security reviews, and operational audits.
Develop dashboards and reports covering vault health, backup success, replication status, recovery testing, and operational risks.
Establish and monitor recovery readiness metrics and key performance indicators.
Identify opportunities to improve ransomware resilience, recovery processes, automation, and infrastructure reliability.