Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer – Lead (Azure AWS Terraform Kubernetes)

Own the pipelines and the platform. Colombo.

Terraform in your sleep, Kubernetes in production, CI/CD you designed yourself? Let's talk.

Talvin (www.talvin.ai) is a recruitment partner helping leading tech and offshore companies in Sri Lanka hire top talent. We're hiring on behalf of our client.

About the company

Our client is a large technology delivery centre in Colombo, backed by an international group. It runs cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines for enterprise products and client accounts across several regions.

About the role

Senior or lead level, mostly Azure-first with some AWS/GCP; build and run.

What you'll do

• Build and run cloud infrastructure as code with Terraform across Dev, Test and Prod
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps YAML, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or GitLab CI)
• Operate containerised workloads on Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE) with Docker and Helm
• Set up monitoring, logging and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana and similar) and define SLOs
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis to SLA, with on-call where required
• Build DevSecOps into delivery: code/SCA scanning, secrets, IAM, network policy
• Lead and mentor DevOps engineers

What you need

• 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

What's on offer

• Competitive salary
• Permanent and contract options (some 6–12-month contracts)
• Hybrid options with some employers; some roles work UK operational hours

How to apply

Apply through this listing with your CV. Shortlisted applicants get an invite to Talvin's short AI interview. Quick, flexible and done from your phone whenever suits you. If you are a strong fit, we introduce you to our client (with your consent).