Remote Lead AWS DevOps Engineer: CDK & TypeScript

EPAM Systems Inc; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 135,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Life and AD&D Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

LinkedIn learning access

401(k) retirement plan with matching

Paid time off (15–25 days)

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain robust infrastructure and CI/CD platforms for scalable deployments across cloud environments.

The role focuses on AWS CDK, TypeScript, Terraform, and GitHub Actions, with emphasis on secure, automated, and resilient release processes. You will work on platform engineering, including self-hosted runners on EKS, OIDC authentication, and bake-time gating, while driving deployment safety and automation

Qualifications

• Strong, production-level proficiency in TypeScript and hands-on experience with AWS CDK for cloud infrastructure.
• Expertise in setting up and maintaining reusable workflows, merge queues, self-hosted ARC runners on EKS, and secure OIDC cloud authentication.
• Proven experience implementing automated/emergency rollbacks for CDK/CloudFormation and configuring progressive rollouts with bake-time gates.
• Familiarity with wave-ordered deploy-runners, Artifactory image promotion, and artifact signing.
• Solid working knowledge of Terraform for infrastructure reading and debugging

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, TypeScript, and Python
• Read, analyze, debug, and contribute to Terraform and AWS CDK infrastructure definitions
• Engineer and scale GitHub Actions platform components, including reusable workflows, merge queues, self-hosted ARC runners on EKS, and OIDC cloud authentication
• Implement and manage automated and emergency rollback mechanisms for AWS CDK and CloudFormation and progressive-rollout pipelines
• Build and operate CDK/CloudFormation deploy tooling and manage Artifactory image promotion and digital signing processes

Skills

AWS CDK

TypeScript

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Deployment safety

Tools

ARC runners

EKS

Artifactory

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain robust infrastructure and CI/CD platforms for scalable deployments across cloud environments.

The role focuses on AWS CDK, TypeScript, Terraform, and GitHub Actions, with emphasis on secure, automated, and resilient release processes. You will work on platform engineering, including self-hosted runners on EKS, OIDC authentication, and bake-time gating, while driving deployment safety and automation