Senior Tech Lead - DevOps

About the role

ADL is looking for a Senior Tech Lead for DevOps, posted through Bridge Talent. The role is hybrid and based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and calls for 7+ years of experience in DevOps, networking, IT or telecommunication. The lead takes ownership of DevOps activities across assigned projects and guides teams through the SDLC.

Key responsibilities

• Adapt to ADL's DevOps culture and take ownership of DevOps work in assigned projects
• Lead DevOps teams and estimate effort, review team tasks for quality and track sprints while mitigating risks
• Design CI/CD automation pipelines and deployment architectures, and lead implementation and integration
• Contribute to optimizing DevOps practices through process improvements and new technologies
• Take part in SDLC stages, system integration testing and system performance monitoring
• Mentor junior DevOps engineers and conduct DevSecOps practices
• Help support teams meet their SLAs

Required profile

• Engineering degree in Telecommunications, Computer Science, IT or Systems/Networking
• Demonstrated experience leading DevOps teams
• Solid understanding of systems, networking and software fundamentals
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, teamwork and communication skills
• One or more DevOps-related professional certifications

Required skills

• UNIX-based operating systems
• Scripting with Bash, Ansible, Python and Terraform
• CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, SonarQube, Kubernetes, Docker and SCM tools
• Monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Cloud platforms, database management and system/network security (DevSecOps)
• Scrum and Agile practices