Job Description
Job Description
For more than three decades, Strategic Data Systems (SDS) has been a software consultancy firm specializing in strategy, technology, and business transformation for Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized firms, and startups. At SDS, we empower our development teams to address our clients’ critical business challenges by leveraging cutting edge technologies. If you seek a workplace where your contributions are truly appreciated, then SDS is the company for you. Join us today to work alongside fellow development specialists and become a crucial part of our dynamic and cohesive community.
Job Title: NGPOS Ops Onsite Support Engineer
Location: Blue Ash, OH (Cincinnati) - onsite 5x a week
- Local travel (Cincy and Louisville) but as new sites go live, travel will expand
- Potential to be traveling every 4 weeks or so
- Travel and on call is split between 6 people - and expecting team to grow
Years of Experience: 3+
TOP SKILLS:
Major Incident Management experience — has actually run or driven a bridge/war-room for a P1/P2 outage, not just "participated." This is the core of the role; everything else is supporting it. Ask for a specific incident they led end-to-end.
RCA/Problem Management rigor — can articulate a structured RCA methodology (5-whys, fishbone, timeline reconstruction) and, more importantly, examples where they drove a corrective action to closure (not just wrote a doc that nobody actioned).
Production troubleshooting under pressure across a mixed stack — comfortable reading logs/dashboards (Dynatrace-type tooling) and reasoning about cloud + on-prem + store/POS systems simultaneously, since a real incident here will span all three.
Additional Information
- Site Reliability Engineers will be successful but must understand this is a support role
- Still lots of engineering involved, will be working in the code every day
Are there any automatic disqualifiers?
- No on-call/off-hours availability
- Pure DevOps/CI-CD background with zero incident-response exposure
What You’ll Do
Specialize in ensuring the reliability, resilience, and recoverability of enterprise services and systems across cloud, on-prem, and store environments. Serve as the SRE voice within incident and problem management, leading major incident response, driving root cause analysis, and partnering with Software Engineers and platform teams to reduce recurrence and improve system health in production.
Minimum Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, incident management, or production support for enterprise systems
- Experience leading or participating in major incident management (incident commander, bridge/war-room facilitation, executive communication during outages)
- Experience with problem management and root cause analysis (RCA), including driving corrective/preventive actions to closure
- Solid understanding of observability and monitoring concepts and tooling (e.g., Dynatrace, Azure Monitor) to detect, triage, and diagnose production issues
- Working knowledge of Linux and scripting (e.g., BASH, Python) for troubleshooting and diagnostic automation
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms (Azure, GCP) sufficient to troubleshoot and reason about system behavior in production
- Experience working in an Agile environment, tracking work and metrics via a platform such as Jira
- Strong communication skills — able to translate technical incident details for both engineering teams and business stakeholders under time pressure
- In office, Blue Ash, OH 5 days a week
- Willingness to travel and provide onsite support for new go-lives and pilots
- Familiarity with Point of Sale Systems in Enterprise environments
Key Responsibilities
Role Functions:
- Act as the SRE lead/participant in Major Incident Management: joining bridges, driving triage, coordinating cross-team response, and communicating status to stakeholders during active incidents
- Own or contribute to Problem Management: conducting RCAs, identifying systemic issues, and tracking corrective actions to completion in partnership with engineering and the platform SRE team
- Collaborate with business partners and engineering teams to define and monitor key SLOs/SLIs, and use them to prioritize reliability work
- Improve traceability, observability, and retrievability of system behavior in production using tools such as Dynatrace and Azure
- Build/tune monitoring and alerting to reduce noise, catch issues earlier, and speed up diagnosis across cloud, on-prem, and store environments
- Partner with the dedicated platform SRE team to escalate systemic/longer-term reliability gaps uncovered during incident and problem work
- Author clear playbooks, runbooks, and postmortem documentation for use by the broader engineering organization
- Participate in an off-hours on-call rotation and periodic off-hours work during major incidents or maintenance windows
- Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety
What You’ll Get
SDS, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
- Competitive base salary
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
- Optional life and disability insurance provided
- 401(k) with a company match and optional profit sharing
- Paid vacation time
- Paid Bench time
- Training allowance offering
- You’ll be eligible to earn referral bonuses!