Principal AIOps Architect - Cloud & Agentic AI

EPAM Systems; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks a Principal AIOps Architect to spearhead large-scale AIOps and Intelligent Operations initiatives, shaping architecture strategy for cloud, automation, and AI-powered platforms across major enterprise programs.

Responsibilities include establishing target-state architecture, governance, and reusable patterns, plus building observability solutions and autonomous remediation capabilities with Human-in-the-Loop safeguards.

Qualifications

• 18-25 years of total IT experience with enterprise/solution architecture background.
• Deep experience in building large-scale AIOps and intelligent operations platforms.
• Strong command of at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Hands-on with Agentic AI ecosystems and AI-assisted remediation strategies.
• Proven ability to lead architecture reviews, governance, and non-functional requirements.

Responsibilities

• Direct enterprise-scale AIOps and automation transformation with target-state architecture.
• Develop observability and operational intelligence solutions across metrics, logs, traces, and events.
• Create Agentic AI solutions leveraging Bedrock/AgentCore, Foundry/Azure OpenAI, or Gemini/Vertex AI Agent Engine.
• Design autonomous remediation with policy controls and Human-in-the-Loop approvals.
• Connect AIOps with ITSM/CMDB, CI/CD, cloud-management, and enterprise APIs; partner across teams.

Skills

AIOps architecture

Cloud platforms

Agentic AI

Python

Observability

ITSM integration

Architectural leadership

RFP/RFI solutioning

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Datadog

Grafana

Prometheus

Elastic

Job description

We're looking for a Principal AIOps Architect to spearhead large-scale AIOps, Intelligent Operations, and Agentic AI transformation efforts, shaping architecture strategy for cloud, automation, and AI-powered operational intelligence platforms across major enterprise programs.

Responsibilities

• Direct enterprise-scale AIOps, Intelligent Operations, Agentic AI, and automation transformation initiatives by establishing target-state architecture, modernization roadmaps, governance frameworks, and reusable solution patterns
• Build observability and operational intelligence solutions spanning metrics, logs, traces, events, topology, service dependencies, incidents, deployments, and configuration changes to support anomaly detection, event correlation, service-impact analysis, and AI-driven RCA
• Create Agentic AI solutions for IT Operations leveraging Amazon Bedrock/AgentCore, Microsoft Foundry/Azure OpenAI, or Gemini/Vertex AI Agent Engine to support reasoning, knowledge retrieval, tool invocation, multi-step investigation, recommendations, and operational decision-making
• Develop autonomous and semi-autonomous remediation solutions incorporating policy controls, identity and access checks, risk assessment, Human-in-the-Loop approvals, rollback, recovery validation, auditability, and feedback loops
• Connect AIOps platforms with ITSM/CMDB, observability, CI/CD, cloud-management, knowledge, security, automation platforms, and enterprise APIs, including ServiceNow or similar tools
• Oversee enterprise architecture reviews, solution assurance, design authority, non-functional requirements, security, resilience, scalability, operational governance, and technical leadership spanning Cloud, SRE, DevOps, Platform, Operations, and AI teams
• Drive RFP/RFI/RFQ and pre-sales solutioning efforts, covering technical discovery, solution architecture, transformation approach, estimations, staffing models, implementation roadmaps, assumptions, risks, dependencies, TCO considerations, and technical proposal development
• Partner with senior customer and executive stakeholders, lead architecture workshops and solution defenses, and work alongside Sales, Pre-Sales, Delivery, Engineering, Practice, and Commercial teams to craft technically sound and competitive solutions

Requirements

• 18-25 years of total IT experience with substantial background in Enterprise/Solution Architecture, Cloud, SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, IT Operations, Automation, or AIOps
• Deep experience building large-scale AIOps and intelligent operations platforms, covering observability, anomaly detection, event correlation, noise reduction, service-impact analysis, AI-assisted RCA, remediation, and operational automation
• Strong command of at least one major cloud platform – AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud – including enterprise cloud architecture, security, identity, networking, governance, resilience, and scalability
• Practical architecture experience with at least one Agentic AI ecosystem such as Amazon Bedrock/AgentCore, Microsoft Foundry/Azure OpenAI, or Gemini/Vertex AI Agent Engine/Google ADK
• Solid grasp of Agentic AI architectures, including reasoning, planning, tool/function calling, RAG/knowledge grounding, context and memory, multi-agent orchestration, agent evaluation, Human-in-the-Loop, guardrails, and policy enforcement
• Background in designing autonomous/self-healing operations, event-driven remediation, workflow orchestration, ITSM integration, operational governance, and secure interactions between AI agents and enterprise systems
• Strong Python skills for Agentic AI solutions, APIs, integrations, automation, telemetry processing, orchestration, rapid prototyping
• Track record in RFP/RFI solutioning, pre-sales architecture, technical proposals, estimations, solution defense, executive stakeholder management, and technical leadership across large enterprise transformation programs
• Nice to have Exposure to multiple major cloud platforms and familiarity with enterprise observability tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or Elastic
• Knowledge of LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Strands Agents, Google ADK, MCP, A2A, RAG, vector databases, or knowledge graphs
• Background in SRE, FinOps, cloud economics, predictive operations, and managed-services solutioning
• Relevant certifications in Cloud Architecture, AI, Enterprise Architecture, SRE, ITIL, or TOGAF