Senior Technical Architect - Cyber Resilience - 100% onsite
Job Description
Job DescriptionWe are hiring Senior Technical Architect - Cyber Resilience - 100% onsite for a Contract To Hire position in New York City, NY
Position Summary
We are seeking a Senior Technical Architect to lead our Cyber Resilience program across a large, complex academic medical center with more than 50,000 employees, multiple hospitals, and two premier medical schools.
This role is responsible for strengthening the organization s ability to anticipate, withstand, and recover from cyber incidents and disruptive events, with a focus on ransomware and destructive attacks impacting critical clinical and business systems.
The Senior Technical Architect will develop and enhance the organization s cyber resilience capabilities, including the design, build, and implementation of an Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE) and supporting recovery architectures across on-premises and cloud environments. The role drives the use of automation to enhance cyber recovery workflows and improve the speed, consistency, and reliability of recovery operations.
Required Qualifications
Cyber Resilience & Ransomware Recovery
• 8+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, recovery architecture, or cyber resilience roles within large, complex environments
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing cyber resilience strategies with a focus on ransomware and destructive cyber events
• Deep understanding of assume-breach scenarios, including loss of production trust, and large-scale system encryption
• Experience supporting ransomware recovery efforts, including incident response, recovery execution, or formal cyber recovery simulations
Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE)
• Proven experience designing, building, and operating an Isolated Recovery Environment (IRE) or clean-room cyber recovery platform across on-premises and cloud environments
• Strong knowledge of isolation strategies, privileged access separation, and secure recovery workflows
• Experience validating system and data integrity prior to restoration and managing staged reintroduction of recovered systems Healthcare Environment
• Experience working in or supporting healthcare provider environments, such as academic medical centers or large hospital systems
• Understanding of clinical system dependencies and impacts to patient care during cyber incidents
• Ability to align recovery sequencing to clinical criticality and operational safety
Infrastructure & Recovery Architecture
• Senior-level technical expertise across enterprise infrastructure, including:
oServer virtualization and bare-metal compute platforms (VMware VCF, Horizon VDI, Cisco UCS)
oEnterprise database platforms (SQL Server and Oracle)
oEnterprise storage systems, including immutable and ransomware-resistant technologies (EverPure SAN, Dell PowerScale NAS)
oData protection and recovery platforms (Rubrik Enterprise Edition)
oNetwork segmentation and secure enclave design
oExperience architecting hybrid and cloud-based recovery solutions (Azure)
oIdentity and access recovery considerations in cloud environments
• Ability to document recovery architectures, dependencies, and restoration runbooks
Automation & Workflow Enablement
• Experience using automation to enhance cyber recovery workflows across on-premises and cloud environments
• Ability to apply scripting, orchestration, or infrastructure-as-code concepts to improve recovery speed, consistency, and reliability
• Focus on automation as an enabler of operational resilience during cyber events
Incident Leadership & Communication
• Ability to serve as the senior technical authority during cyber incident activation and recovery
• Experience operating within incident command or emergency operations structures
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level technical briefings
Estimated Pay Range: 70-85/hr