Azure DevOps Architect & Terraform Lead (CI/CD)

EPAM Systems Inc; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

HSA

401(k) plan

PTO

Holidays

Life insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. is seeking a DevOps Technical Lead and Architect in New York to lead platform engineering and modernize a .NET insurance platform. You will shape CI/CD, IaC, and release practices to move a monolith toward scalable, service-oriented architecture with greater stability.

You will manage deployments, build reusable IaC modules, and strengthen security and runbooks while mentoring teams across global projects. A strong Azure/DevOps background is essential.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building Azure environments from scratch with Terraform, including modules, state management, and CI/CD-driven deployments.
• Hands-on expertise with Azure services such as App Services, Key Vault, Cosmos DB, networking, and Identity.
• Strong experience with Azure DevOps and Azure Pipelines for build, release, and deployment automation.
• Practical knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for containerized workloads.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and Application Insights.
• Demonstrated ability to migrate manually built infrastructure to IaC without a production outage, and to lead as a technical lead or architect.

Responsibilities

• Lead the platform engineering team and partner with client technology leadership to define and deliver long-term improvement initiatives alongside ongoing development requests.
• Design shared, versioned CI/CD pipeline templates with embedded quality and security gates, and run build-once release promotion through Test, Staging, PreProd and Production with approvals and rollback.
• Execute weekly and off-cycle production deployments, including database releases, post-deployment checks, and coordination with release management on readiness and go/no-go decisions.
• Build reusable infrastructure as code modules, automate templated environment provisioning, remediate drift, and decommission legacy environments.
• Strengthen identity, access and security through secrets and key management, access request handling, and hardening of cloud resources.
• Drive root-cause analysis and remediation of platform incidents, and maintain operational runbooks, knowledge transfer, and a managed intake process for unplanned work.

Skills

Azure

CI/CD

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Monitoring

Cloud architecture

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

App Services

Key Vault

Cosmos DB

Grafana

Application Insights

Job description

EPAM Systems Inc. is seeking a DevOps Technical Lead and Architect in New York to lead platform engineering and modernize a .NET insurance platform. You will shape CI/CD, IaC, and release practices to move a monolith toward scalable, service-oriented architecture with greater stability.

You will manage deployments, build reusable IaC modules, and strengthen security and runbooks while mentoring teams across global projects. A strong Azure/DevOps background is essential.