Chief AWS DevOps Engineer

EPAM Systems, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off

Upskilling & certifications

LinkedIn Learning access

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. seeks a Chief AWS DevOps Engineer to design and evolve a shared cloud platform used by product and application teams. You will shape paved roads, guardrails, and secure-by-design patterns, aligning with enterprise architecture and security standards.

You will codify platform interfaces in Terraform and pipelines, partner with DevOps teams, and improve platform reliability and developer experience while maintaining centralized logging, monitoring, and identity controls.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cloud engineering with a product/platform mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design shared cloud platform services as reusable building blocks.

Skills

Cloud engineering

AWS expertise

Product mindset

Security by design

Terraform IaC

Platform API design

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

We are looking for a Chief AWS DevOps Engineer to build and evolve shared AWS cloud platform services that product and application teams consume, treating the platform as a product with reusable building blocks and a consistent developer experience aligned with CCoE standards. You will shape paved roads, reliability, and secure-by-design guardrails.ResponsibilitiesDesign shared cloud platform services that application teams consume as reusable building blocksBuild standard compute patterns and golden baselines to accelerate safe workload onboardingEvolve paved roads and golden paths with product teams, security, and operationsMaintain centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities across the platformImplement secrets management, identity, and key management integrations as platform primitivesPartner with DevOps and IaC teams to codify platform interfaces in Terraform and pipelinesImprove platform reliability, scalability, resilience, and developer experience continuouslyAlign platform capabilities with security, compliance, and enterprise architecture guardrailsRepresent internal developer teams to prioritize platform roadmap and lifecycle investmentsSupport centralized integrations such as file transfers and federation where requiredRequirements7+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience with a product/platform mindsetDeep AWS compute, storage, networking, and managed services experienceStrong shared-services architecture background for logging, monitoring, secrets, and identityProven security-by-design practices knowledge including IAM roles and policy-as-codePlatform interface and API definition experience for internal developer consumptionStrong stakeholder communication skills with a client-centric mindsetUpper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2)Nice to haveAWS IAM expertise for role design and federation patternsAWS Networking and Content Delivery knowledge for scalable, secure traffic patternsAWS Storage Gateway experience for hybrid storage integrationsAWS Compute depth across EC2, ECS, EKS, and LambdaSecurity by Design Principles applied to cloud platform guardrailsWe offerInternational projects with top brandsWork with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peersHealthcare benefitsEmployee financial programsPaid time off and sick leaveUpskilling, reskilling and certification coursesUnlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ coursesGlobal career opportunitiesVolunteer and community involvement opportunitiesEPAM Employee GroupsAward-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn