Azure Cloud Architect & Automation Lead

EPAM Systems; Turkey; On-site; TRY 400,000 - 800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Upskilling program

Private health insurance

Mentoring programs

Competitive USD compensation

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a seasoned Lead Azure Cloud Engineer to architect, build, automate, and manage secure, scalable Azure platforms for enterprise workloads. You will drive IaC, CI/CD, observability, and AI-enabled cloud solutions in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

You will design Azure infrastructure, implement reusable deployment patterns, and lead DevOps practices across pipelines, security, and governance while mentoring engineers and delivering production-grade services.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience architecting Azure cloud solutions in enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of Azure networking, identity, governance, security, monitoring and platform services.
• Experience with Terraform IaC and multi-environment deployments.
• Proficient in CI/CD using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or GitLab CI/CD.
• Experience with observability and AI-enabled cloud patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Azure cloud infrastructure, including subscriptions, resource groups, networking, identity, governance, security, and platform services.
• Construct and support reusable Azure deployment patterns for applications, APIs, front-end workloads, microservices, containers, serverless services, data integrations, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Operate and implement AKS environments including node pools, ingress, workload identity, secrets management, autoscaling, monitoring, and security controls.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including reusable modules, multi-environment deployments, automated validation, and CI/CD pipeline integration.
• Create and implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, or comparable tools.
• Support DevOps practices including automated builds, testing, security scanning, artifact management, environment promotion, deployment approvals, rollback strategies, and release automation.
• Leverage GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted engineering tools to boost productivity in scripting, IaC development, CI/CD pipeline creation, code review, troubleshooting, documentation, and automation.
• Deploy cloud-native solutions using Azure services such as App Service, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Event Grid, Service Bus, Storage, Key Vault, API Management, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights.

Skills

Azure expertise

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

DevSecOps

IaC

Tools

AKS

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking a seasoned Lead Azure Cloud Engineer to architect, build, automate, and manage secure, scalable Azure platforms for enterprise workloads. You will drive IaC, CI/CD, observability, and AI-enabled cloud solutions in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

You will design Azure infrastructure, implement reusable deployment patterns, and lead DevOps practices across pipelines, security, and governance while mentoring engineers and delivering production-grade services.