Lead AWS DevOps Engineer

EPAM Systems; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer to evolve our shared cloud platform as a product, enabling application teams to onboard workloads safely and rapidly while aligning with CCoE standards.

You will design reusable platform capabilities, manage security-by-design IAM/SSO integrations, and drive reliability, scalability, and developer experience across the platform through IaC and pipelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience with a product/platform mindset.
• Strong leadership skills to influence standards and align stakeholders across teams.
• Proven project delivery skills for shared platform services and reusable building blocks.
• Deep AWS services knowledge across compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
• Strong Terraform experience to collaborate with IaC teams and codify platform interfaces.
• Solid architecture skills for logging, monitoring, secrets, identity, and centralized integrations.
• Security-by-design expertise including IAM roles, SSO/OAuth integrations, SIEM feeds, and policy-as-code.
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills with a client‑centric mindset.
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2)

Responsibilities

• Design reusable platform capabilities that enable safe, rapid workload onboarding
• Build standard compute patterns and golden baselines aligned with CCoE standards
• Evolve centralized services for logging, monitoring, secrets, identity, file transfers, and key management
• Define platform APIs and interfaces that product and application teams can adopt consistently
• Coordinate with Cloud DevOps and automation engineers to implement platform interfaces via IaC and pipelines
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, resilience, and developer experience through continuous iteration
• Ensure platform capabilities align with security, compliance, and enterprise architecture guardrails
• Prioritize platform features and lifecycle investments by representing internal developer teams

Skills

Cloud engineering

Leadership

Project delivery

AWS services

Terraform

Architecture design

Security-by-design

Stakeholder communication

English proficiency

Platform mindset

Tools

Terraform

Job description

We are looking for a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer to evolve shared AWS cloud platform services that 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, strengthen security-by-design, and raise reliability across the platform.

Responsibilities

• Design reusable platform capabilities that enable safe, rapid workload onboarding
• Build standard compute patterns and golden baselines aligned with CCoE standards
• Evolve centralized services for logging, monitoring, secrets, identity, file transfers, and key management
• Define platform APIs and interfaces that product and application teams can adopt consistently
• Coordinate with Cloud DevOps and automation engineers to implement platform interfaces via IaC and pipelines
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, resilience, and developer experience through continuous iteration
• Ensure platform capabilities align with security, compliance, and enterprise architecture guardrails
• Prioritize platform features and lifecycle investments by representing internal developer teams

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience with a product/platform mindset
• Strong leadership skills to influence standards and align stakeholders across teams
• Proven project delivery skills for shared platform services and reusable building blocks
• Deep AWS services knowledge across compute, storage, networking, and managed services
• Strong Terraform experience to collaborate with IaC teams and codify platform interfaces
• Solid architecture skills for logging, monitoring, secrets, identity, and centralized integrations
• Security-by-design expertise including IAM roles, SSO/OAuth integrations, SIEM feeds, and policy-as-code
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills with a client‑centric mindset
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2)

Nice to have

• Skills in AWS IAM, AWS Networking and Content Delivery, AWS Storage Gateway, AWS.Compute Knowledge of Security by Design Principles