DevOps Engineer - AI Platform & MLOps

About the role

IFS is hiring a DevOps Engineer for its AI platform and MLOps function in Colombo. You will design, implement and manage the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and operational practices that support AI and machine learning solutions, working closely with AI engineers, data scientists, solution architects and platform engineers.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure for AI workloads, across development, test, UAT and production, using IaC with Terraform and Bicep
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automate model deployment, validation, testing, rollback, retraining and governance
• Apply security best practices, manage identities, secrets and certificates, and carry out vulnerability remediation and hardening
• Set up monitoring, alerting, logging and observability, troubleshoot incidents and define SLAs, SLOs and operational metrics
• Support production releases, contribute reusable templates and mentor teams on DevOps and AI operational best practices

Required profile

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering or a similar role
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, data science, mathematics, statistics or a related field; a Master's is an added advantage
• Experience in regulated or enterprise environments

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
• Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Terraform and/or Bicep, Docker, Kubernetes (AKS preferred)
• CI/CD pipeline implementation and monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Grafana or Prometheus
• Strong scripting in PowerShell, Python or Bash

What we offer

• Opportunity to build enterprise-scale AI solutions and exposure to the latest generative AI technologies
• Career growth within a global technology organization
• Flexible and hybrid work arrangements