The integration of Secure DevOps strategies within retail cloud environments has become a pivotal axis for ensuring compliance, resilience, and sustained organizational agility. In contemporary digital ecosystems, retail enterprises increasingly leverage cloud computing paradigms to optimize operational costs, enhance scalability, and support advanced analytics for customer insights. However, these cloud‑enabled benefits are accompanied by heightened security concerns, regulatory obligations, and complex resilience challenges. Drawing on foundational theory and empirical frameworks from cloud computing, security engineering, organizational sustainability modeling, and business process integration, this study synthesizes a holistic research narrative that elucidates how Secure DevOps methodologies can align with cloud governance, security assurance, and resilience practices in retail. We map theoretical constructs from cloud adoption frameworks, privacy and security discourse in cloud environments, and resilient architectural models to demonstrate how Secure DevOps catalyzes compliance readiness and operational resilience. Additionally, we explore organizational sustainability dimensions, risk mitigation strategies, and compliance frameworks essential for modern retail cloud ecosystems. Our analysis reveals nuanced insights into the interplay between secure cloud architectures, DevOps cultural shifts, process governance, and emergent compliance models that inform future research and practitioner adoption strategies.

Secure DevOps, cloud compliance, retail resilience

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