DevOps & Site Reliability Lead-Retail Devops

Location: Bannockburn, IL Salary: $150,000.00 USD Annually - $160,000.00 USD Annually Description:
Devops & Site Reliability Lead-retail Devops

Deerfield, IL (3 days onsite)

Fulltime

Technology and Programming (Expert Level)

• Strong proficiency in Java full stack developer

• Object-Oriented programming principles and concepts

• Hands-on experience with Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security)

• Knowledge if RESTful API development

• Experience with database like Oracle, DB2, MySQL

• Proficiency in Payment Switch BASE24 EPS, C++, AS400 and Python is also added advantage

Domain, Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Must have domain experience on Retail Point of Sale/Payment Systems/Merchandising/Inventory/Logistics area

• Expertise in Microsoft Azure, including:

• Compute (VMs, App Services, Azure Container Apps)

• Containers & Orchestration (AKS, Docker)

• Networking (VNETs, Private Endpoints, Application Gateway, Load Balancers)

• Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics

• Proven experience designing enterprise-grade, highly available cloud platforms

DevOps & Engineering Excellence

• Advanced experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipeline architecture

• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash)

• GitOps concepts, branching strategies, release orchestration

Site Reliability Engineering (Leadership Level)

• Ownership of platform reliability, resiliency, and performance

• Definition and governance of:

• SLIs, SLOs, SLAs

• Error budgets and reliability metrics

• Advanced observability strategy, designing and implementation:

• Metrics, logs, traces, alerts, dashboards using Dynatrace

• Incident response leadership, RCA facilitation, and long-term remediation planning

• Experience operating 99.9%-99.99% availability systems

Security, Compliance & Cost

• Secure cloud design using Key Vault, managed identities, RBAC

• Cost optimization (FinOps mindset) across cloud infrastructure

Roles & Responsibilities

• Act as Lead SRE for client's Retail platforms, owning reliability and stability outcomes

• Define and enforce SRE standards, best practices, and operating models

• Architect and govern highly available, scalable cloud platforms

• Lead the design and implementation of CI/CD and IaC strategies

• Establish proactive monitoring, alerting, and incident prevention mechanisms

• Own major incident leadership, RCA execution, and corrective action tracking

• Partner with application, security, and architecture teams to build reliability by design

• Drive automation to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency

• Mentor and coach SRE and DevOps engineers across teams

• Influence roadmap decisions with a reliability, scalability, and cost lens

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