Remote Platform Engineer: HPC & Kubernetes Architect

EPAM Systems; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 145,000 - 170,000; 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)

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Legal Plan

Pet Insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Bonus program

Long-Term Incentive Program

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to operate and scale Kubernetes platforms across multiple cloud providers. You will design HPC infrastructure, implement GPU-resource scheduling, and contribute to incident response and monitoring in a fast-growing environment.

The role requires expert Kubernetes capability, strong Python (and Go/Rust/C++) skills, and Terraform proficiency, with preference for CKA/CKS. Remote work is available with location considerations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud platforms, or high-performance computing environments.
• Expert-level Kubernetes experience at meaningful scale, including node pool sizing, scheduler debugging, CNI troubleshooting, and rolling upgrades across large fleets.
• Advanced Python skills with a track record of building production-grade tools; experience with Go, Rust, or C++ is a strong plus.
• Daily proficiency in Terraform for writing and reviewing infrastructure as code.
• Working knowledge of core AWS services including EC2, S3, EFS, and FSx for Lustre.
• Strong site reliability engineering background with experience building monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices.
• CKA, CKS certificates are highly preferred

Responsibilities

• Operate and scale Kubernetes platforms (EKS, GKE, and other distributions) including cluster lifecycle management, node pool optimization, and networking policies during periods of rapid growth.
• Provision and manage HPC infrastructure through CI/CD pipelines spanning AWS, CoreWeave, GCP, OCI, and additional cloud providers.
• Design and maintain job scheduling systems that efficiently allocate GPU compute resources across training and inference workloads.
• Define SLIs/SLOs, build robust monitoring and alerting systems, and actively participate in incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Develop production-quality tooling and automation to support multi-cloud infrastructure operations at scale.
• Collaborate daily with Networking, Storage, Security, and AI/ML platform teams to ensure seamless cross-functional infrastructure delivery.

Skills

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Rust

C++

Terraform

AWS

SRE

CKA/CKS

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to operate and scale Kubernetes platforms across multiple cloud providers. You will design HPC infrastructure, implement GPU-resource scheduling, and contribute to incident response and monitoring in a fast-growing environment.

The role requires expert Kubernetes capability, strong Python (and Go/Rust/C++) skills, and Terraform proficiency, with preference for CKA/CKS. Remote work is available with location considerations.