Azure Cloud Lead Architect: AI, AKS & DevOps

EPAM Systems, Inc.; Turkey; On-site; TRY 1,000,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

English courses

Mentoring programs

Career development

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. seeks a seasoned Lead Azure Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable Azure infrastructure for enterprise workloads, including AI-enabled solutions.

You will work with Cloud Architects, DevOps, Security, and Data teams to implement repeatable deployment patterns, secure networking, and cost-efficient services. Your responsibilities span AKS management, IaC with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and cloud governance.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience architecting and managing Azure cloud solutions in enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in Azure networking, identity, governance, security, monitoring, and platform services.
• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), containers, registries, ingress, autoscaling, and security.
• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools, including multi-environment delivery.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD).
• Solid DevOps and DevSecOps practices including automated testing, scanning, release automation.
• Experience with GitHub Copilot or AI-assisted development tools for infra and automation.
• Background with Azure PaaS and services like App Service, Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Event Grid, Service Bus, Storage, Key Vault, SQL, Cosmos DB.
• Experience with observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Container Insights.
• Familiarity with AI services: Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Machine Learning; RAG patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Azure cloud infrastructure including subscriptions, resource groups, networking, identity, governance, security, and platform services.
• Develop reusable Azure deployment patterns and IaC modules for multi-environment deployments.
• Operate and optimize AKS environments including node pools, ingress, workload identity, secrets management, autoscaling, and monitoring.
• Create and implement CI/CD pipelines and integrate with DevOps tools.
• Support DevOps practices including automated builds, testing, security scanning, artifact management, and release automation.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools to boost productivity in scripting, IaC development, and pipeline creation.
• Implement secure integration patterns using managed identities, RBAC, private endpoints, DNS, NSGs, firewalls, API gateways.
• Set up observability with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and runbooks.
• Provide technical guidance, code reviews, and engineering leadership to team members.
• Collaborate with architects to translate requirements into practical Azure implementations.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Azure Kubernetes Service

DevSecOps

Observability

Networking

Security controls

AI-enabled cloud

IaC

Automation scripting

Education

Azure certifications (Admin/DevOps/Architect)

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

GitLab CI/CD

AKS

Kubernetes

PowerShell

Python

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. seeks a seasoned Lead Azure Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable Azure infrastructure for enterprise workloads, including AI-enabled solutions.

You will work with Cloud Architects, DevOps, Security, and Data teams to implement repeatable deployment patterns, secure networking, and cost-efficient services. Your responsibilities span AKS management, IaC with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and cloud governance.