Job Description
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)
o Containers & Orchestration (AKS, Docker)
o Networking (VNETs, Private Endpoints, Application Gateway, Load Balancers)
o Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics
o Error budgets and reliability metrics
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 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)
- 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 Error budgets and reliability metrics
- Advanced observability strategy, designing and implementation:
- Incident response leadership, RCA facilitation, and long-term remediation planning Experience operating 99.9% 99.99% availability systems
- 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)
- Secure cloud design using Key Vault, managed identities, RBAC
- Cost optimization (FinOps mindset) across cloud infrastructure
- 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
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Deerfield, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1990 |
| Website | http://q1tech.com/ |
About Company
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.
Skills
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
- Applications Securityunmatched
- Automationunmatched
- Bash Scriptingunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Cloud Architectureunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Coachingunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- DevOpsunmatched
- GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
- High Availabilityunmatched
- Identity Data Managementunmatched
- Incident Responseunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Microservicesunmatched
- Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
- Operational Improvementunmatched
- Operational Strategyunmatched
- Reliability Engineeringunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Retailunmatched
- Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
- Security Architectureunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Windows PowerShellunmatched
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