Sr DevOps Engineer
At a glance
Senior DevOps & Release role at Kaleris. Colombo · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Build and maintain highly available applications across AWS and Azure, including multi-region and multi-zone setups
- Create disaster recovery plans for workloads running across both cloud platforms
- Automate deployments, monitoring and recovery actions to limit outages and address problems early
- Connect customer TMS and WMS platforms with the YMS through APIs, messaging and protected data flows
- Tune infrastructure for performance, growth and cost while troubleshooting production reliability issues
What you bring
- At least five years designing cloud architecture with AWS and Azure
- Strong hands-on command of DevOps tooling, including Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience building disaster recovery architectures across AWS and Azure
- Advanced PostgreSQL administration skills covering performance, availability and replication
- Fluent English, with strong scripting skills in Python, Bash or PowerShell and experience in Linux environments
Who this fits
This senior role suits an experienced cloud and DevOps engineer comfortable owning deployment, recovery and production reliability for a yard management system. The listed location is Colombo, Sri Lanka.
From the employer
Job Description:
Sr. DevOps Engineer – Yard Management System
About the Role As a Sr. DevOps Engineer at Kaleris, you will play a critical role in the deployment, scalability, and reliability of our mission-critical Yard Management System (YMS). You will work closely with development, cloud operations, and product teams to design, build, and support robust cloud-native solutions that power some of the world’s largest supply chain operations.
You will own the end-to-end cloud deployment lifecycle across multiple cloud providers, design high-availability architectures, and ensure seamless integrations between our YMS and customer systems (TMS, WMS, ERP, etc.).
Key Responsibilities
Collaborate with engineering and product teams to design, deploy, and maintain highly available, multi-region, multi-AZ applications on AWS and Azure.
Architect and implement robust Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies across cloud platforms
Build automation for deployment, monitoring, and self-healing to minimize downtime and proactively resolve issues.
Ensure security best practices are embedded into all cloud solutions (Network security, encryption, compliance).
Optimize system performance, scalability, and cost efficiency through configuration tuning and infrastructure as code.
Design and implement integrations between customer TMS/WMS platforms and Kaleris YMS using APIs, messaging services, and secure data flows.
Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive continuous improvement in reliability and operational excellence.
Required Qualifications
5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud architecture on AWS and Azure (EKS, AKS, EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Lambda, SNS, SQS, Azure VMs, ).
Strong expertise in DevOps practices and tools — GitHub, Jenkins, Spacelift, ArgoCD, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code.
Deep experience designing and implementing Disaster Recovery architectures in AWS and Azure.
Strong PostgreSQL DBA skills (performance tuning, high availability, replication).
Proficiency in scripting and programming (Python, Bash, PowerShell; Ruby/Ruby on Rails a plus).
Solid experience with Linux (primary) and Windows environments.
In-depth knowledge of web technologies: Unicorn, Nginx, load balancing, caching (Memcached/Redis).
Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and critical thinking skills in high-availability, mission-critical environments.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills; fluent in English.
Nice-to-Haves
Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer, Azure Administrator / Architect, etc.).
Familiarity with monitoring/observability tools (CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
This role offers the opportunity to work on challenging, high-impact systems that power global supply chains while collaborating with talented engineering and operations teams.
Kaleris is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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