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DevOps Engineer

Zyentara Solutions    Colombo • Full-time

Our client, a leading and well-established organization with a strong market presence, is seeking an experienced and technically proficient DevOps Engineer to manage and optimize cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, monitoring, and release governance. The role will play a critical part in ensuring high platform availability, secure and reliable deployments, operational excellence, and continuous cloud infrastructure optimization across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure Management

  • Administer and maintain Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud environments
  • Manage cloud resources, networks, security storage, and backups.
  • Implement performance tuning and support disaster recovery

Kubernetes Administration (AKS & GKE)

  • Manage AKS and GKE cksters, upgrades and Recycle management.
  • Configure ingress, load balancing and autoscaling
  • Implement Kubernetes security best praction

DevOps & CI/CD Management

  • Administer Azure DevOps repositories and YAML pipelines.
  • Manage branching, build validations and release automation
  • Support self-hosted build and deployment agents

Release Governance & Deployment Assurance

  • Establish release governance standards and approval workflows.
  • Coordinate production and non-productions
  • Maintain audit trails and conduct post-release validation

DevSecOps & Security

  • Implement secure DevOps practices across the SDLC
  • Manage SonarQube, SAST, container and dependency scanning
  • Conduct vulnerability assessments and enforce security gates

Monitoring & Incident Management

  • Configure Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application insights.
  • Develop dashboards and alerting mechanisms.
  • Manage incident investigation RCA and resolution of critical outages.

FinOps & Cost Optimization

  • Monitor cloud expenditure across Azure and Google Cloud
  • Identify rightsizing and optimization opportunities.
  • Recommend Reserved instances and produce cost reports.

Documentation & Governance

  • Maintain architecture documentation, runbooks and SOPs.
  • Ensure DR documentation is current and support audits.

Recovery & Business Continuity

  • Coordinate DR exercises and validate RTC/RPO
  • Manage backup restoration testing
  • Produce DR reports and improvement recommendations

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • 99% platform availability maintained
  • SLA compliance of 95% or above
  • Critical incident response within 30 minutes
  • Successful deployment rate above 98%
  • Zero critical security vulnerabilities unresolved
  • Quarterly disaster recovery test completion
  • Monthly cloud cost optimization targets achieved 100% release governance compliance
  • Timely completion of operational and governance reports

Qualifications & Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Operations. or Site Reliablity Engineering.
  • Hands-on experience managing production Microsoft Azure environments.
  • Experience with Kubernetes-based platforms (AKS and/or GKE)
  • Proven experience with CVCD and DevOps platforms.
  • Experience implementing DevSecOps frameworks.
  • Strong understanding of cloud security, monitoring, DR and FinOps

Certifications (Preferred)

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-305)
  • Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500)
  • Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
  • Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect 
  • Kubernetes Certifications (CKA/CKAD