Senior DevOps Engineer, AI Platform

EPAM Systems; Colombia; Remote; COP 120,000,000 - 240,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off

Learning & development

Global career opportunities

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the platform transition, decommission legacy apps, and strengthen MCP Hosting Infra and AI Marketplace. You will set technical direction, guide automation, and mentor engineers across global teams.

You will drive end-to-end migrations, enhance observability, and design authentication systems at scale. This role involves collaboration with product teams and managing on-call processes within a growing, international environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Experience leading technical work end to end, including migrations or decommissions.
• Expertise in AWS, Terraform, and EKS/Kubernetes, with strong Kubernetes experience.
• Background in monitoring and observability practices.
• Experience designing authentication or credential-management systems using OAuth2 at scale.
• Experience designing on-call and support processes, not just participating in them.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and to make pragmatic trade-offs.
• Proficiency in English at a B2+ level.

Responsibilities

• Lead the spin-down of applications with migration plans and stakeholder communication.
• Influence MCP Hosting Infra reliability (Kubernetes on AWS) and credential handling architecture.
• Guide the evolution of AI Marketplace and define the support automation strategy.
• Set standards for Terraform, observability, runbooks, and on-call practices.
• Review bot escalations and translate patterns into automation work.
• Mentor mid-level engineers through code and design reviews and pairing.
• Act as escalation point for complex incidents and cross-team requests.
• Partner with product and other teams to prioritize work and set expectations.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

AWS

Kubernetes

Observability

OAuth2

On-call

Mentoring

Python

TypeScript

English

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to serve as technical lead for our platform's transition, retiring legacy applications cleanly while strengthening MCP Hosting Infra and AI Marketplace. In this role, you will set technical direction, shape how the support bot grows, and raise the bar for the engineers around you.ResponsibilitiesLead the spin-down of two applications, including migration plans, stakeholder communication, and decommissioningInfluence the architecture and reliability of MCP Hosting Infra (Kubernetes on AWS), including the gateway and per-user credential handling, by recommending changes that improve the current designGuide the evolution of AI MarketplaceDefine the support automation strategy, including which requests the bot resolves, which tools and permissions it gets, and how resolution rate is measuredSet standards for Terraform, observability, runbooks, and on-call practicesReview bot escalations for patterns and turn them into prioritized automation workMentor mid-level engineers through code review, design review, and pairingAct as the escalation point for complex incidents and cross-team requestsPartner with product and other teams to prioritize work and set expectationsRequirements3+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability EngineeringTrack record of leading technical work end to end, including migrations or decommissionsExpertise in AWS, Terraform, and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, with strong Kubernetes experience strongly preferredBackground in monitoring and observability practicesExperience designing authentication or credential-management systems using OAuth2, or operating them at scaleExperience designing on-call and support processes, not just participating in themDemonstrated ability to mentor and to make pragmatic trade-offsProficiency in English at a B2+ levelNice to haveFamiliarity with Model Context ProtocolSkills in Python and TypeScriptWe offerInternational projects with top brandsWork with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peersHealthcare benefitsEmployee financial programsPaid time off and sick leaveUpskilling, reskilling and certification coursesUnlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ coursesGlobal career opportunitiesVolunteer and community involvement opportunitiesEPAM Employee GroupsAward-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedInEPAM is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.