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DevOps & Site Reliability Lead-Retail Devops

INUIX ConsultingDeerfield, IL🇺🇸United StatesPosted 13 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills 
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 

Skills

Docker
MySQL
Oracle
Spring
Spring Boot
Azure
Bash
C++
Java
PowerShell
Python
Vault

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