Lead DevOps AIOps Engineer

Nextjob


Job Location:

Colombo - Sri Lanka

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed
Posted on: 9 hours ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The Role

We are looking for a proactive and experienced DevOps Engineer to lead automation platform enablement and operational excellence initiatives while driving smarter AI-assisted engineering practices across our teams.

What youll be doing

  • Lead DevOps and platform-enablement improvements across CI/CD release workflows deployment automation artifact management and environment provisioning (TeamCity Azure DevOps Artifactory or equivalent).
  • Drive automation across recurring deployment environment and operational activities using IaC scripting and configuration management tools (Terraform Ansible Helm PowerShell Python).
  • Own Kubernetes cluster lifecycle responsibilities: provisioning upgrading and maintaining clusters using tools like Cluster API (CAPI) managing node configurations and ensuring cluster health and standards compliance.
  • Drive GitOps-based deployment practices using ArgoCD or Flux managing application lifecycle across environments including promotion workflows and environment-specific configuration management.
  • Strengthen observability and operational intelligence through monitoring logging dashboards alert refinement and incident analysis and apply AI-assisted tooling to accelerate root-cause investigation log interpretation and operational workflows.
  • Contribute to agentic AIOps capabilities: systems that correlate operational signals generate summaries recommend actions and perform controlled tasks through governed workflows.
  • Work closely with Sri Lankan development teams and Norwegian platform counterparts to improve developer experience (DX) removing blockers in builds deployments access and tooling.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and raise team maturity in automationobservability and operational practices.

What We Expect

  • 6 years in DevOps platform engineering SRE or infrastructure automation.
  • Strong hands-on experience across CI/CD deployment workflows artifact management and environment provisioning.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code containers Kubernetes and cloud services (Azure preferred).
  • Familiarity with observability platforms such as Grafana Prometheus or ELK stack; exposure to OpenTelemetry is a plus.
  • Practical use of AI-assisted engineering tools for troubleshooting configuration review and operational productivity.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across distributed cross-cultural teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to take ownership coordinate across stakeholders and drive complex issues to resolution.

Preferred Experience

  • Exposure to SRE practices DevSecOps FinOps or internal developer platforms.
  • Experience designing or contributing to AIOps agentic automation or AI-enabled operational workflows.
  • Background in healthcare regulated or enterprise software environments.
  • Relevant certifications in cloud Kubernetes DevOps or security.
  • Multi-cluster Kubernetes management including network policies ingress controllers (Traefik NGINX) and service mesh concepts.
  • OpenTelemetry and modern observability practical experience with OTel-based pipelines instrumentation and Prometheus/Grafana dashboards.

Benefits

  • Great Remuneration
  • Flexible Work Arrangement
  • Performance Bonus
  • Private Health Insurance
  • Accelerated Career Growth

Required Experience:

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