Senior DevOps Engineer — Azure, AKS & IaC Lead

EPAM Systems, Inc.; Turkey; On-site; TRY 2,948,000 - 4,668,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continuous upskilling

Private health insurance

Career development programs

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to drive Azure infrastructure initiatives, focusing on Terraform/OpenTofu, AKS, and Configuration as Code.

You will implement modules for Azure services, manage AKS clusters, and integrate identity and secret management with Key Vault. The role emphasizes building scalable cloud environments, maintaining image pipelines, and contributing to infrastructure testing and documentation.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience building and operating Azure infrastructure via Terraform/OpenTofu, including CI/CD-driven deployment with Azure DevOps.
• Experience operating AKS clusters in production, including networking, policy, and namespace management.
• Experience with Azure identity constructs (managed identities, SPN/app registrations) and secrets integration (Key Vault).
• Experience with Configuration as Code (Ansible) for VM post-provisioning and golden-image pipelines.
• Familiarity with Azure networking constructs (VNets, private endpoints, NSGs).

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain Terraform/OpenTofu modules for Azure App Services, Container Apps, Function Apps, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Postgres.
• Build and operate the AKS platform day-to-day, including cluster provisioning and add-on configuration.
• Implement identity wiring and secrets integration for Azure workloads.
• Create and maintain Image Factory pipelines for VM and container baselines, CIS hardening, and image scanning.
• Execute Ansible playbooks for VM post-provisioning and golden-image handoff.
• Support Backstage templates integration for Azure provisioning and end-to-end testing.
• Troubleshoot production issues across Azure automation modules during implementation and adoption.
• Contribute to module testing, drift detection, and documentation per IaC Engine standards.

Skills

Azure IaC

AKS management

CI/CD with Azure DevOps

GitHub Copilot usage

Azure Networking basics

Tools

Ansible

Azure Key Vault

Image Factory pipelines

OpenTofu

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to drive Azure infrastructure initiatives, focusing on Terraform/OpenTofu, AKS, and Configuration as Code.

You will implement modules for Azure services, manage AKS clusters, and integrate identity and secret management with Key Vault. The role emphasizes building scalable cloud environments, maintaining image pipelines, and contributing to infrastructure testing and documentation.