Lead AWS DevOps Engineer

EPAM Systems; Mexico; On-site; MXN 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Global teams

Paid time off and sick leave

Upskilling and certification courses

LinkedIn Learning access

Global career opportunities

Volunteer opportunities

EPAM Employee Groups

Award-winning culture

Job summary

EPAM Systems in Mexico is seeking a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer to shape and evolve shared cloud platform services used across product teams. You will treat the platform as a product by delivering reusable building blocks, paved roads, and a consistent developer experience aligned with CCoE standards.

Responsibilities include designing reusable platform capabilities, operating centralized services, and coordinating with DevOps to codify interfaces in IaC and pipelines, while prioritizing security

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on cloud engineering with a product mindset.
• Deep AWS expertise across compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
• Experience with EKS, ECS, Lambda, EC2, and RDS.
• Strong security-by-design practices, IAM roles, SSO/OAuth.
• Ability to define platform APIs and collaborate with DevOps/IaC teams.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and client focus.
• English at B2+ level or higher.

Responsibilities

• Design reusable platform capabilities to enable onboarding of workloads.
• Operate and improve centralized services like logging, monitoring, and key management.
• Create paved roads and golden paths with product teams and security.
• Coordinate with Cloud DevOps to codify interfaces in IaC and pipelines
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
• Represent client voice to prioritize platform features and investments.
• Verify platform with security, compliance, and enterprise guardrails.

Skills

Cloud engineering

AWS expertise (EKS, ECS, Lambda)

IaC & DevOps automation

Security-by-design

SIEM & policy-as-code

Platform API design

Stakeholder communication

English proficiency (B2+)

Tools

AWS EC2

AWS RDS

KMS

IAM federation

Transfer Family

SSO/OAuth

Job description

EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.

We are looking for a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer to shape and evolve shared cloud platform services used across product and application teams. You will treat the platform as a product by delivering reusable building blocks, paved roads, and a consistent developer experience aligned with CCoE standards.

Responsibilities

• Design reusable platform capabilities, including shared services, standard compute patterns, and golden baselines, to enable safe and fast workload onboarding
• Operate and improve centralized services such as logging, monitoring, secrets, identity, file transfers, and key management
• Create paved roads and golden paths in partnership with product teams, security, and operations
• Coordinate with Cloud DevOps/Automation engineers to codify platform interfaces in IaC and pipelines
• Optimize platform reliability, scalability, resilience, and developer experience through continuous improvements
• Represent the voice of the client to prioritize platform features and lifecycle investments
• Verify platform capabilities align with security, compliance, and enterprise architecture guardrails

Requirements

• Hands-on cloud engineering experience of 5+ years, paired with a product/platform mindset
• Deep expertise in AWS compute, storage, networking, and managed services, including EKS, ECS, and Lambda
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS managed services such as EC2 and RDS
• Strong foundation in designing shared services for logging, monitoring, and secrets management
• Background with centralized integrations including Transfer Family, KMS, and IAM federation
• Familiarity with security-by-design practices, including IAM roles and SSO/OAuth integrations
• Clear understanding of SIEM feeds and policy-as-code approaches
• Experience defining platform APIs/interfaces and partnering with DevOps/IaC teams to automate adoption
• Client-focused mindset with excellent stakeholder communication skills
• English proficiency at B2 (Upper-Intermediate) level or higher

We offer

• International projects with top brands
• Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
• Healthcare benefits
• Employee financial programs
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
• Global career opportunities
• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
• EPAM Employee Groups
• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn

EPAM 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.