Job Title: DevOps & Site Reliability Lead
Location: Deerfield IL, 60015 - Hybrid Role 3 days
Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: 10 years
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
- Cloud & Platform Engineering (Expert Level)
- Deep 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
- 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:
- SLIs, SLOs, SLAs
- Error budgets and reliability metrics
- Advanced observability strategy:
- 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 Digital 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