DevOps / Platform Engineer

EPAM Systems; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. is seeking a hands-on DevOps/Platform Engineer to strengthen our Kubernetes platform operations and CI/CD ecosystem.

You will scale cloud-native infrastructure, improve deployment pipelines, enforce IaC standards, and enhance resilience in production AWS workloads. You will operate Kubernetes clusters, design scalable architectures, and drive automation across GitHub Actions, Terraform, and observability tooling.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of production Kubernetes experience.
• 2+ years of GitHub Actions CI/CD experience.
• Terraform IaC experience with state management and governance.
• Proficient in AWS (VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS).
• Strong DevOps/SRE practices for high availability.
• English at B2+ level.
• Experience with cloud cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Operate and optimize production Kubernetes clusters.
• Improve cluster scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Implement resource management, autoscaling, and isolation.
• Enhance observability with metrics, logging, tracing.
• Support multi-team onboarding and platform enablement.
• Refine GitHub Actions pipelines and reusable workflows.
• Enforce standards across repositories and automate deployments.
• Manage Terraform-based infrastructure including state management.
• Assist in environment provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with AWS services including networking, IAM, EC2, and EKS.
• Participate in incident troubleshooting and RCA for reliability.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

SRE principles

Observability

Cost optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

English (B2+)

Tools

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Job description

We are seeking a hands-on DevOps / Platform Engineer to strengthen our Kubernetes platform operations and CI/CD ecosystem. The engineer will actively contribute to scaling cloud-native infrastructure, improving deployment pipelines, enforcing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards, and enhancing operational resilience. This is a production-facing role requiring strong troubleshooting capability, an ownership mindset, and practical experience operating mission-critical workloads in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, and optimize Kubernetes clusters supporting production workloads
• Improve cluster scalability, reliability, and performance
• Implement best practices for resource management, autoscaling, and workload isolation
• Enhance observability, including metrics, logging, and tracing, to improve operational visibility
• Support multi-team onboarding and platform enablement
• Design, refactor, and scale GitHub Actions pipelines
• Implement reusable workflows and enforce standards across repositories
• Reduce deployment risk through automation, validation, and testing improvements
• Maintain and strengthen Terraform-based infrastructure, including state management and modularity
• Support environment provisioning and lifecycle management
• Manage and optimize AWS services, including networking, IAM, compute, and storage
• Participate in incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement initiatives

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience operating and optimizing Kubernetes clusters in production environments
• 2+ years of experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Expertise in Terraform for infrastructure as code, including state management and governance practices
• Proficiency in AWS services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, and EKS
• Knowledge of secrets management and secure configuration practices
• Background in applying DevOps and SRE principles to production and high-availability systems
• Understanding of cost optimization strategies within cloud environments
• Capability to collaborate cross-functionally with application teams and drive automation improvements
• Proficiency in English at a B2+ level
• Nice to have Background in regulated or healthcare environments
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Skills in AWS cost optimization practices
• Understanding of platform engineering best practices and internal developer platforms