Lead DevOps Engineer - GitHub Actions

EPAM Systems; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in GitHub Actions and CI/CD processes. This role involves designing automation solutions, migrating critical tooling platforms to SaaS, and implementing security practices across workflows. Ideal candidates will have 8-14 years of software development experience, strong scripting skills, and familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker. Join us to drive our CI/CD transformation initiatives and lead advanced automation efforts.

Qualifications

• 8-14 years of experience in software development.
• 4+ years of deep CI/CD engineering expertise with GitHub Actions.
• Background in migrating major dev tooling platforms from on-prem to SaaS.

Responsibilities

• Design advanced GitHub Actions workflows using YAML.
• Containerize automation processes into Docker containers.
• Lead tool migration and integration efforts.

Skills

CI/CD engineering expertise with GitHub Actions

GitHub and GitHub Actions runner management

Python, Go, PowerShell or Bash scripting

Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Ansible

Containerization technologies like Podman and Docker

Incident response and root cause analysis

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

Ansible

Artifactory

Azure Container Registry

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer – GitHub Actions to drive our CI/CD transformation initiatives and lead the migration of critical development tooling platforms. In this role, you will architect scalable automation solutions, manage enterprise-grade GitHub infrastructure, and champion DevOps best practices across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design and author advanced GitHub Actions workflows using YAML, contexts, expressions, matrix strategies, caching and artifacts
• Develop reusable workflows, composite actions and manage action versioning and publishing
• Oversee enterprise runner management, including self-hosted runners, runner groups and network/proxy constraints
• Implement CI/CD security practices such as least privilege tokens, environment protection rules, CODEOWNERS-required reviews and signed actions/pinning
• Containerize automation processes into portable Podman or Docker containers and deploy them to repositories like Artifactory, Azure Container Registry or GitHub Packages
• Leverage containers from serverless/ephemeral virtual environments such as Azure Container Apps or GitHub Runners
• Schedule, monitor and troubleshoot container workloads
• Lead tool migration and integration efforts, including migrating major dev tooling platforms from on-prem to SaaS through planning, stakeholder management and phased rollout
• Manage Artifactory repositories (maven/npm/pypi/nuget/docker), permissions, retention, replication and build-info
• Drive Sonar adoption through quality gates, quality profiles, project onboarding and branch/PR analysis
• Configure Dependabot at scale across ecosystems, including scheduling, grouping, ignore policies and security update handling
• Apply AI-powered capabilities for GitHub Actions troubleshooting prompts and infrastructure/configuration prompts

Requirements

• 8-14 years of experience in software development
• 4+ years of deep CI/CD engineering expertise with GitHub Actions (or equivalent, with strong GitHub Actions delivery evidence)
• Proficiency in GitHub and GitHub Actions runner management
• Background in migrating at least one major dev tooling platform from on-prem to SaaS
• Knowledge of Linux fundamentals, networking basics (TLS, proxies, DNS) and automation/scripting using Python, Go, PowerShell or Bash
• Skills in Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible
• Expertise in reliability and operations, including monitoring/alerting, incident response and root cause analysis
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Podman and Docker
• Understanding of container repositories such as Artifactory, Azure Container Registry and GitHub Packages
• Capability to grasp AI-powered skills for GitHub Actions troubleshooting and infrastructure/configuration prompts