Senior Cloud Architect: Migrations & Container Strategy

EPAM Systems; Chile; On-site; CLP 35,000,000 - 70,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off and sick leave

Upskilling, reskilling and certificate

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a hands-on Cloud Architect to lead large-scale migrations of legacy and third-party applications into modern cloud and container platforms. You will shape target-state architecture, guide delivery teams, and align stakeholders on the best path forward.

You will collaborate with security and solution architecture to ensure compliant designs, oversee migration delivery, drive containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and mentor engineers across global teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cloud and systems development experience with large-scale migrations.
• 5+ years of Terraform production experience.
• 5+ years of Ansible configuration management and automation.
• 5+ years of containerization and platform selection for Kubernetes or EKS.
• Strong technical leadership to guide architects and engineering teams.
• Strong client communication to facilitate workshops and align on approach.
• Advanced English skills (C1).

Responsibilities

• Lead application and infrastructure discovery to assess legacy and third-party workloads.
• Define target-state architecture across AWS, Kubernetes, and private cloud options.
• Facilitate workshops with clients and architecture stakeholders to gather requirements.
• Create migration plans and test plans aligned with business needs and risk constraints.
• Decide platform approach and landing zone integration based on workload requirements.
• Oversee engineering execution and unblock teams during migration delivery.
• Provide hands-on expertise for DevOps and cloud tasks when needed.
• Guide containerization strategy and ensure workloads are packaged for modern platforms.
• Design CI/CD pipeline approach to support repeatable and controlled releases.
• Coordinate with security and solution architecture to ensure compliant designs.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Client communication

Advanced English

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes / EKS

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking a hands-on Cloud Architect to lead large-scale migrations of legacy and third-party applications into modern cloud and container platforms. You will shape target-state architecture, guide delivery teams, and align stakeholders on the best path forward.

You will collaborate with security and solution architecture to ensure compliant designs, oversee migration delivery, drive containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and mentor engineers across global teams.