Chief AWS DevOps Engineer

EPAM Systems Inc; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. seeks a Chief AWS DevOps Engineer to design and evolve a shared AWS cloud platform, treated as a product with reusable building blocks and a consistent developer experience aligned with CCoE standards.

You will shape paved roads, improve reliability, security-by-design guardrails, and collaborate with product, security, and operations to codify platform interfaces in Terraform and pipelines, driving scalable, secure cloud outcomes for the enterprise.

Qualifications

• 7+ years hands-on cloud engineering with a product/platform mindset.
• Deep AWS compute, storage, networking, and managed services experience.
• Strong shared-services architecture for logging, monitoring, secrets, and identity.
• Security-by-design practices knowledge including IAM roles and policy-as-code.
• Platform interface and API definition experience for internal developer consumption.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills with a client-centric mindset.
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2).
• Nice to have AWS IAM expertise for role design and federation patterns.
• AWS Networking and Content Delivery knowledge for scalable, secure traffic patterns.
• AWS Storage Gateway experience for hybrid storage integrations.
• AWS Compute depth across EC2, ECS, EKS, and Lambda.
• Security by Design Principles applied to cloud platform guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Design shared cloud platform services that application teams consume as reusable building blocks.
• Build standard compute patterns and golden baselines to accelerate safe workload onboarding.
• Evolve paved roads and golden paths with product teams, security, and operations.
• Maintain centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities across the platform.
• Implement secrets management, identity, and key management integrations as platform primitives.
• Partner with DevOps and IaC teams to codify platform interfaces in Terraform and pipelines.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, resilience, and developer experience continuously.
• Align platform capabilities with security, compliance, and enterprise architecture guardrails.
• Represent internal developer teams to prioritize platform roadmap and lifecycle investments.
• Support centralized integrations such as file transfers and federation where required.

Skills

AWS

DevOps

Platform engineering

Stakeholder communication

Security by design

IAM

English proficiency

Tools

Terraform

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.

Responsibilities

• Design shared cloud platform services that application teams consume as reusable building blocks
• Build standard compute patterns and golden baselines to accelerate safe workload onboarding
• Evolve paved roads and golden paths with product teams, security, and operations
• Maintain centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting capabilities across the platform
• Implement secrets management, identity, and key management integrations as platform primitives
• Partner with DevOps and IaC teams to codify platform interfaces in Terraform and pipelines
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, resilience, and developer experience continuously
• Align platform capabilities with security, compliance, and enterprise architecture guardrails
• Represent internal developer teams to prioritize platform roadmap and lifecycle investments
• Support centralized integrations such as file transfers and federation where required

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience with a product/platform mindset
• Deep AWS compute, storage, networking, and managed services experience
• Strong shared-services architecture background for logging, monitoring, secrets, and identity
• Proven security-by-design practices knowledge including IAM roles and policy-as-code
• Platform interface and API definition experience for internal developer consumption
• Strong stakeholder communication skills with a client-centric mindset
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2)
• Nice to have AWS IAM expertise for role design and federation patterns
• AWS Networking and Content Delivery knowledge for scalable, secure traffic patterns
• AWS Storage Gateway experience for hybrid storage integrations
• AWS Compute depth across EC2, ECS, EKS, and Lambda
• Security by Design Principles applied to cloud platform guardrails