Cloud & Virtualization Team Lead: Azure, VMware, AI/ML

EPAM Systems; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking an experienced Virtualization and Cloud Team Lead to guide a team of virtualization and cloud specialists. You will manage on‑premises VMware/Hyper‑V environments and Azure infrastructure, driving security, availability, and compliance across platforms.

The role requires strong Linux administration, CI/CD, and IaC experience, with a focus on containerized workloads and GPU‑accelerated AI/ML deployments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in virtualization and cloud environments.
• Experience with VMware vSphere/ESXi and Hyper‑V.
• Strong Azure cloud skills across networking, compute, storage.
• Azure security and DevOps tooling knowledge.
• Linux system administration experience.
• CI/CD pipelines and IaC practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor virtualization and cloud specialists team.
• Manage on‑premises VMware/Hyper‑V environments and Azure infra.
• Apply best practices for security, availability, and compliance.
• Support AI/ML deployments using GPUs and containerized workloads.
• Ensure DR, BC, and high availability across platforms.
• Oversee infrastructure as code with Terraform, ARM/Bicep templates.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Hyper-V

Azure

Azure security

DevOps

CI/CD

Linux admin

Docker/Kubernetes

IaC

Terraform

ARM/Bicep

MLOps

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

ARM templates

Bicep

Azure DevOps

VMware

Hyper-V

Azure ML

AWS SageMaker

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking an experienced Virtualization and Cloud Team Lead to guide a team of virtualization and cloud specialists. You will manage on‑premises VMware/Hyper‑V environments and Azure infrastructure, driving security, availability, and compliance across platforms.

The role requires strong Linux administration, CI/CD, and IaC experience, with a focus on containerized workloads and GPU‑accelerated AI/ML deployments.