DevOps Practice Lead

Epam Systems; Pune District, Gurugram District, Coimbatore District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Epam Systems is seeking a DevOps Practice Lead to architect and roll out scalable DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering solutions. You will lead enterprise-wide cloud transformation efforts and establish engineering standards for teams.

The role requires deep hands-on architecture and leadership across CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, observability, and security. You will guide RFP/RFI responses and drive large-scale automation initiatives with clients.

Qualifications

• 20-25 years of IT experience with DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering expertise.
• Hands-on architecture and technical leadership background required.
• Strong CI/CD, IaC, GitOps experience with modern tooling.
• Proven ability to design enterprise DevOps/SRE transformations and reference architectures.

Responsibilities

• Head the architecture and rollout of DevOps/SRE/platform engineering solutions across cloud/hybrid environments.
• Establish DevOps strategy, reference architectures, and engineering standards including CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, observability, and DevSecOps.
• Drive automation across infrastructure provisioning, deployment, configuration, monitoring, and operations.
• Coach architects and teams; run architecture/design reviews and improve capabilities.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture & Technical Leadership

Solutioning & RFP/RFI

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Terraform/OpenTofu

Ansible

ArgoCD or Flux

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS/AKS/GKE

Helm

Job description

We're looking for a DevOps Practice Lead to spearhead the design and rollout of scalable DevOps, SRE and platform engineering solutions, while leading enterprise-wide cloud transformation efforts and establishing technical standards for engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Head the architecture and rollout of scalable DevOps, SRE and platform engineering solutions across cloud and hybrid environments
• Establish DevOps strategy, reference architectures, engineering standards and golden paths covering CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, observability and DevSecOps
• Push automation forward across infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, configuration management, monitoring and operational processes
• Build and refine SRE practices, covering SLI/SLO definition, error budgets, incident management, reliability engineering and post-incident improvement
• Offer technical governance and architectural leadership for complex cloud transformation efforts and large-scale DevOps initiatives
• Guide technical solutioning for RFPs/RFIs, proposals, estimations and client presentations, converting business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Coach architects and engineering teams, run architecture/design reviews and strengthen capabilities across DevOps, SRE and cloud technologies
• Work closely with customers, engineering teams and leadership to boost delivery speed, platform reliability, security, operational efficiency and cloud cost optimization

Requirements

• 20-25 years of overall IT experience, with deep expertise in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Engineering, including demonstrated hands-on architecture and technical leadership background
• Skilled in CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and GitOps, working with tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI and GitHub Actions
• Hands-on knowledge of Azure DevOps, Terraform/OpenTofu and Ansible, as well as ArgoCD or Flux
• Solid background with Docker, Kubernetes and managed Kubernetes platforms like EKS, AKS or GKE, including Helm, service mesh and platform engineering concepts
• Working knowledge of AWS, Azure and/or GCP architecture, covering landing zones, networking, security, governance and enterprise-scale cloud environments
• Deep expertise in SRE and observability, covering SLI/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, monitoring, logging, tracing, capacity and performance engineering
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps, cloud security, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, policy-as-code and security integration throughout CI/CD pipelines
• Demonstrated capability to design enterprise DevOps/SRE transformation solutions, build reference architectures, engineering standards and reusable automation frameworks
• Solid client-facing and solutioning background, including RFP/RFI responses, estimations, technical proposals, architecture discussions and stakeholder management

Nice to have

• Familiarity with AIOps, GenAI-assisted operations/SDLC, automated RCA and intelligent remediation
• Background with Internal Developer Platforms like Backstage, plus FinOps and cloud cost optimization practices
• Relevant professional certifications in AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes or Terraform