Lead Azure DevOps Engineer- Azure Networking

EPAM Systems; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks a Lead Azure DevOps Engineer with deep Azure Networking experience to design, implement, and optimize cloud infrastructure. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant Azure environments.

Responsibilities include security/compliance, Terraform IaC development, and validating outputs against corporate standards, while leveraging Azure landing zones and networking patterns in large-scale deployments.

Qualifications

• Expert-level Terraform with pipeline troubleshooting and module design.
• Azure Cloud proficiency including networking and landing zone concepts.
• Ability to lead and validate AI-assisted IaC outputs against standards.

Responsibilities

• Drive design, implementation and optimization of Azure infrastructure.
• Ensure security and regulatory compliance for cloud environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align on architecture.
• Lead Terraform IaC development, state management, and module reuse.

Skills

Azure DevOps

Azure Networking

Terraform expertise

Cloud architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Job description

We are seeking a Lead Azure DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Azure Networking to drive the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud infrastructure solutions, while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant Azure environments. Req# 1084862013

Responsibilities

• Ensure Security and compliance, and conform to best practices for Terraform IaC creation; a generic AI-developed Terraform solution is not enough.
• Ability to set the right context and validate the outputs according to corporate standards and best practices overall is a MUST when developing AI-assisted Terraform solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, providing technical expertise.
• Client-oriented mindset is a must; be capable of leading the work and pushing the conversations with the stakeholders, not just waiting for instructions.

Documentation-as-Code and Knowledge Sharing Requirements

• Hands-on experience with creation/modification of Azure infrastructure using Terraform modules, Terraform state modifications (experience working with Terraform resources alone will not be enough)
• Expert-level Terraform, meaning the ability to troubleshoot pipeline runs and improve or write Terraform modules from the ground up, with validations, optimizations, reusability and backward compatibility in mind and in place
• Expert level in Azure Cloud, Landing Zone concept, Azure networking (Azure Private DNS implementation, Service Endpoint/Private Endpoint hands-on experience with at-scale implementations, Hub-and-Spoke implementation experience)
• Azure Identity (Entra ID, Managed Identities, Federated Credentials, OIDC, App Registrations and Service Principals)