DevOps & Site Reliability Lead-Retail Devops

Q1 Technologies, Inc

Deerfield, IL

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Application Programming Interface (API), Applications Security, Automation, Bash Scripting, Best Practices, Budgeting, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Coaching, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Corrective Action, Cost Control, DevOps, GCP (Good Clinical Practices), High Availability, Identity Data Management, Incident Response, Leadership, Mentoring, Metrics, Microservices, Microsoft Windows Azure, Operational Improvement, Operational Strategy, Reliability Engineering, Reporting Dashboards, Retail, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Security Architecture, Software Engineering, Windows PowerShell
LOCATION
Deerfield, IL
POSTED
15 days ago
Job Title: DevOps & Site Reliability Lead-Retail Devops
Duration- Fulltime Permanent
Location: Deerfield IL, 60015 (Onsite from Day1)
Job Description:
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
Cloud & Platform Engineering (Expert Level)
  • Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, including:
o Compute (VMs, App Services, Azure Container Apps)
o Containers & Orchestration (AKS, Docker)
o Networking (VNETs, Private Endpoints, Application Gateway, Load Balancers)
o Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics
  • Proven experience designing enterprise-grade, highly available cloud platforms
  • Strong understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud architectures (AWS / GCP exposure preferred)
DevOps & Engineering Excellence
  • Advanced experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipeline architecture
  • Infrastructure automation using Terraform (modules, state management, governance)
  • 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:
o SLIs, SLOs, SLAs
o Error budgets and reliability metrics
  • Advanced observability strategy, designing and implementation:
o 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
Containers, APIs & Integration
  • Leadership-level experience with AKS-based platforms, ingress, and scaling strategies
  • Understanding of microservices, API-led and event-driven architectures
  • Familiarity with Azure Integration Services (Service Bus, Event Hub, API Management)
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

About the Company

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Q1 Technologies, Inc

Q1 consists of experienced and recognized experts providing the capability to respond to market demand in order to provide professional services for our clients including Enterprise software implementations, application integration and technical / functional support.

Q1 has steadily grown into a Quality IT services and solutions organization with the average experience of our team being over 10 years. We have continuously met or exceeded client expectations by delivering professional services and project implementations on time and under budget to help clients truly recognize return on investment.

COMPANY SIZE
500 to 999 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1990
WEBSITE
http://q1tech.com/