Senior Azure Cloud Engineer – AKS, IaC & DevOps

EPAM Systems Inc; Turkey; On-site; TRY 4,414,000 - 5,885,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Continuous upskilling & development

English language courses

Competitive USD compensation

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc in Turkey is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure solutions. You will work hands-on with Azure infrastructure, containers, IaC, observability, and security controls to support enterprise-grade workloads.

You will collaborate with Cloud Architects, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Product teams to deliver robust Azure platforms, AI-enabled capabilities, and modern app delivery in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating Azure cloud solutions in enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of Azure networking, identity, governance, security, monitoring, and platform services.
• Experience with Terraform or other IaC tools, including module development and multi-environment delivery.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI/CD.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and automated testing and security scanning.
• Experience collaborating with architects, engineers, security teams, and product stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Azure cloud infrastructure including subscriptions, resource groups, networking, identity, governance, security, and platform services.
• Build reusable Azure deployment patterns for applications, APIs, front-end workloads, microservices, containers, serverless services, data integrations, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Implement and operate Azure Kubernetes Service environments, including node pools, ingress, workload identity, secrets management, autoscaling, networking, monitoring, container registry integration, and security controls.
• Build, maintain, and improve Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including reusable modules, multi-environment deployments, automated validation, and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, or similar tools.
• Support DevOps practices such as automated builds, testing, security scanning, artifact management, environment promotion, deployment approvals, rollback strategies, and release automation.
• Use GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity across scripting, IaC development, CI/CD pipeline creation, code review, troubleshooting, documentation, and automation.
• Implement 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.
• Support the implementation of AI-enabled solutions using Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Machine Learning, and related Azure AI services.

Skills

Azure Cloud Architecture

Terraform

CI/CD Automation

AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)

GitHub Actions

Security & Compliance

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Azure Kubernetes Service

Job description

EPAM Systems Inc in Turkey is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure solutions. You will work hands-on with Azure infrastructure, containers, IaC, observability, and security controls to support enterprise-grade workloads.

You will collaborate with Cloud Architects, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Product teams to deliver robust Azure platforms, AI-enabled capabilities, and modern app delivery in a fast-paced environment.