EPAM SystemsRemote
Lead DevOps Engineer (AWS)
United States of America
Full Time
3 days ago
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
Amazon Web ServicesCI/CDJenkinsGitHub ActionsGitLab CIAzure DevOpsInfrastructure as CodeTerraformCloudFormationARM/BicepPulumiDockerKubernetesMonitoringLoggingAlertingBashPythonPowerShellSecurityCloud ArchitectureAWSAzureServerlessHelmGitHubGitLabGitOpsLeadershipCommunicationCloud Security
About this role
EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer with expertise in architecting, automating, and operating cloud-based infrastructure on AWS. The ideal candidate will guide engineering teams, set technical direction, and drive improvements in deployment workflows, infrastructure resilience, and operational maturity.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture, implementation and evolution of cloud infrastructure on AWS
- Drive the design and continuous enhancement of CI/CD pipelines for application delivery
- Establish automation standards for infrastructure provisioning and configuration through Infrastructure as Code
- Oversee containerized workloads and cloud-native solutions across environments
- Partner with development, QA, security and operations teams to align technical strategy
- Elevate system resilience, scalability, performance and security across the platform
- Guide production monitoring, incident response and root cause analysis efforts
- Mentor engineers and champion DevOps best practices throughout the organization
Requirements:
- Extensive background (5+ years) as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer, including leadership experience (1+ years)
- Deep hands-on expertise with AWS
- Proven work with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or similar
- Advanced command of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep or Pulumi
- Solid expertise in Docker and containerized environments
- Strong grasp of Kubernetes or managed cloud container services
- Practical experience with monitoring, logging and alerting platforms
- Advanced scripting abilities in Bash, Python, PowerShell or similar
- Solid command of networking, security and cloud architecture principles
- Capability to lead initiatives independently and own production environments
- Proficient communication skills in English (B2 level or higher)
- Hands-on background in Kubernetes administration
- Familiarity with Helm, Argo CD or GitOps practices
- Knowledge of cloud security and compliance
- Exposure to serverless architectures
- Practical skills in cost optimization for cloud environments