Lead Azure DevOps Architect & Platform Automation

EPAM Systems; Turkey; On-site; TRY 4,373,000 - 8,746,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continuous upskilling

Private health insurance

English courses

Mentoring programs

Diversity of tasks

Certification support

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive Azure platform automation across Azure infrastructure, AKS, identity, and image pipelines in our engineering group. You will lead CI/CD-based delivery to ensure reliability for our IaC engine and collaborate with architects to scale standards.

You will guide Terraform/OpenTofu modules, operate AKS clusters, implement secure identity and secrets workflows, and support golden-image pipelines across Windows and Linux.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating Microsoft Azure infrastructure via Terraform/OpenTofu with CI/CD using Azure DevOps.
• Proven experience operating AKS clusters in production, including networking, policy, and namespace management.
• Leadership experience guiding Infrastructure as Code standards, reviews, and delivery across teams.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain Terraform/OpenTofu modules for Azure services based on design
• Build and operate the AKS platform day-to-day, including cluster provisioning
• Configure AKS add-ons (ingress, cert-manager, external-dns, monitoring, policy)
• Implement identity wiring for Azure workloads using managed identities and registrations
• Integrate secrets management with Azure Key Vault and OpenBao
• Build and maintain Image Factory pipelines for VM and container images
• Execute Ansible playbooks for VM post-provisioning and image handoff
• Support Backstage golden-path templates for Azure provisioning and validation
• Troubleshoot production issues across Azure automation modules
• Contribute to module testing, drift detection, and IaC documentation

Skills

Azure DevOps

Terraform/OpenTofu

AKS

CI/CD pipelines

Ansible

Azure networking

Azure identity & Key Vault

Leadership

English proficiency

Tools

OpenTofu

OpenBao

Backstage

Azure Shared Image Gallery

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to drive Azure platform automation across Azure infrastructure, AKS, identity, and image pipelines in our engineering group. You will lead CI/CD-based delivery to ensure reliability for our IaC engine and collaborate with architects to scale standards.

You will guide Terraform/OpenTofu modules, operate AKS clusters, implement secure identity and secrets workflows, and support golden-image pipelines across Windows and Linux.