Cloud & Hosting Lead | Hybrid Infra, FinOps & Security

EPAM Systems; Aarau; Hybrid; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks of vacation

ESPP

Enhanced parental leave

Pension plan

Sickness allowance insurance

Employee assistance program

Travel medical and accident insurance

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Cloud and Hosting Lead to join the team in Lausanne or Aarau, Switzerland, in a hybrid mode. You will be the primary infrastructure authority in Switzerland, co-locating with the client’s Head of Cloud, and owning the hybrid Cloud & Hosting domain across on‑prem VMware/Hyper‑V, AWS and AVD/VDI environments.

You will drive transition activities, governance of offshore teams, cloud optimization, and compliance with security and data residency requirements in a

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of infrastructure and cloud engineering experience.
• Solid experience with cloud modernization initiatives.
• Experience in Managed Service Provider or outsourcing environments.
• Knowledge of hybrid deployments including on-prem virtualization and public cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Own the Cloud & Hosting domain across a hybrid estate including VMware/Hyper-V, AWS environments and AVD/VDI setups.
• Lead transition-in activities such as infrastructure discovery, dependency mapping, runbook creation and tooling onboarding.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor offshore engineering teams handling BAU operations, patching, monitoring, backup, capacity management and incident resolution.
• Drive cloud optimization through FinOps practices, workload right-sizing and AVD capacity tuning.
• Serve as on-call escalation point for P1/P2 incidents.
• Ensure NIS2 compliance and adherence to Swiss data residency requirements in cloud operations.
• Collaborate with client leadership during strategic and operational decision-making.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Leadership

Mentoring offshore teams

FinOps

Security & compliance

Education

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking a Cloud and Hosting Lead to join the team in Lausanne or Aarau, Switzerland, in a hybrid mode. You will be the primary infrastructure authority in Switzerland, co-locating with the client’s Head of Cloud, and owning the hybrid Cloud & Hosting domain across on‑prem VMware/Hyper‑V, AWS and AVD/VDI environments.

You will drive transition activities, governance of offshore teams, cloud optimization, and compliance with security and data residency requirements in a