Technical Lead – DevOps - Sysco LABS Colombo

Technical Lead – DevOps - Sysco LABS

The Opportunity

We are currently on the lookout for a Technical Lead – DevOps to join our team.

Responsibilities:

• Architecting scalable DevOps solutions for CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and more
• Defining and enforcing DevOps best practices, such as GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and Immutable Infrastructure
• Driving initiatives for infrastructure cost optimization and performance tuning
• Leading the adoption of DevSecOps by integrating security into CI/CD pipelines
• Identifying areas for investment in tooling, skills, and automation, and justifying these through impact and ROI
• Providing technical mentorship to junior DevOps engineers
• Collaborating with developers, QA, platform, and SRE teams to support the full SDLC
• Enforcing governance across environments, including access controls, secrets management, and logging standards
• Facilitating cross-team alignment regarding environment readiness, release orchestration, and rollback strategies
• Participating in designing on-call rotations, managing escalations, and conducting incident retrospectives
• Promoting a Kaizen mindset — regularly auditing pipelines, systems, and processes for optimization
• Staying updated on industry trends (e.g., GitOps, Platform Engineering, FinOps) and evaluating adoption

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and for STL: 8 years of experience in DevOps. For TL: 6+ years of experience in DevOps
• A strong knowledge of AWS cloud computing and AWS DevOps tools
• Strong knowledge in fundamental DevOps tools such as AWS DevOps tools, Terraform, Jenkins, GoCD, GitHub, Nagios and Chef etc.
• Strong knowledge of containerization of software packages using solutions such as Dockerization, Kubernetes, AWS ECS and AWS Fargate, etc.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, testing and troubleshooting DevOps tools in production systems
• Adherence to engineering standards, best practices - be process oriented
• Strong communication skills – reading & comprehending documents/specifications, producing clear and thorough documentation, ability to discuss and explain technical issues during meetings
• 1+ years of experience with one of the dynamic object-oriented programing languages like Groovy, Ruby or Python; experience with a programming language like Java, C#, Node.js JavaScript and related web frameworks will be an added advantage

Benefits:

• US dollar-linked compensation
• Performance-based annual bonus
• Performance rewards and recognition
• Agile Benefits - special allowances for Health, Wellness & Academic purposes
• Paid birthday leave
• Team engagement allowance
• Comprehensive Health & Life Insurance Cover - extendable to parents and in-laws
• Overseas travel opportunities and exposure to client environments
• Hybrid work arrangement

Sysco LABS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.