Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer – Lead (Azure AWS Terraform Kubernetes)
About the role
This role is for a Senior or Lead DevOps/Cloud Engineer, primarily focused on Azure but also involving AWS and GCP. The position involves building and running cloud infrastructure as code using Terraform, designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, operating containerized workloads on Kubernetes, and setting up monitoring and alerting systems. The engineer will also lead incident response, integrate DevSecOps practices, and mentor other DevOps engineers. The company is a large technology delivery center in Colombo, backed by an international group, and supports enterprise products and client accounts across several regions.
Must have
- 6+ years in DevOps, cloud or infrastructure engineering (5+ for senior IC roles; 7+ for lead/architect)
- Strong Terraform (or similar IaC)
- Hands-on with Azure (IaaS/PaaS, AKS) and/or AWS (EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC)
- Docker and Kubernetes in production
- CI/CD tooling plus scripting in Bash, PowerShell and/or Python
- Linux and Windows server administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, VPN, TLS)
Nice to have
- Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate, HashiCorp Terraform Associate, AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional
- Ansible, SonarQube, Dynatrace, New Relic, OpenTelemetry
- .NET/Node.js pipelines; SOC 2 / ISO 27001 compliance work
Technologies
- AKS
- Ansible
- AWS
- Azure
- Azure DevOps
- Bash
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- DevSecOps
- DNS
- Docker
- .NET
- Dynatrace
- EC2
- EKS
- GCP
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab
- GKE
- Grafana
- Helm
- IAM
- Infrastructure as Code
- ISO 27001
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- New Relic
- Node.js
- OpenTelemetry
- PowerShell
- Prometheus
- Python
- SOC 2
- SonarQube
- Terraform
- TLS
- VPC
- VPN
- Windows
- Windows Server
- YAML
Highlights
Both permanent and contract (6–12 month) options are available. Some roles offer hybrid work and may require working UK operational hours. Application is via CV submission, followed by a short AI interview by Talvin, which can be completed flexibly from your phone.