Lead DevOps Engineer – Azure

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer Azure to join our team in Colombo and help build scalable, secure, automated, and highly reliable cloud platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Build and manage scalable Azure platforms using Terraform, Crossplane, AKS, Azure Container Apps and GitOps.
• Develop reusable automation, libraries and templates using C# and Python.
• Implement DevSecOps practices including SAST/DAST, vulnerability scanning, Azure Policy, Key Vault and container security.
• Establish and improve SRE practices, including SLOs/SLIs, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, incident management and automation.
• Drive cloud cost optimization through tagging, budgets, anomaly detection and automated rightsizing.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to resolve incidents and deliver reliable platform operations.

Required profile

• 2+ years of enterprise Azure experience – mandatory.
• Strong hands‑on experience with AKS, Azure Container Apps, VNets, ACR, Key Vault, Entra ID, Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud and Azure Monitor.

Required skills

• Azure, Terraform, Crossplane, AKS, Azure Container Apps.
• Kubernetes, Helm, RBAC, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps YAML pipelines.
• C#, Python, Azure CLI, PowerShell, Bash, Docker.
• SAST, DAST, Snyk, SonarQube, container image security.
• Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB.