Senior AWS DevOps Lead: CDK, TypeScript & CI/CD

EPAM Systems Inc; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 135,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Life and AD&D Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

LinkedIn learning access

Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Employee Discounts

Pet Insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Discretionary annual bonus program

Discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer - CDK & TypeScript to design, build, and maintain robust infrastructure and CI/CD platforms across cloud environments, driving deployment safety, automation, and scalability.

The role emphasizes pipeline engineering, IaC management with Terraform and AWS CDK, platform and runner administration on EKS, automated rollbacks, and artifact tooling, with a comprehensive benefits package and remote-friendly options.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Pipeline Engineering: Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, TypeScript, and Python
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Management: Read, analyze, debug, and contribute to Terraform and AWS CDK infrastructure definitions
• Platform & Runner Administration: Engineer and scale GitHub Actions platform components, including reusable workflows, merge queues, self-hosted ARC runners on Amazon EKS, and OIDC cloud authentication
• Deployment Safety & Resilience: Implement and manage automated and emergency rollback mechanisms for AWS CDK and CloudFormation (including stack teardown, fix-forward vs rollback strategies), progressive-rollout pipelines, and bake-time gating
• Artifact Management & Deployment Tooling: Build and operate CDK/CloudFormation deploy tooling (such as wave-ordered deploy-runners) and manage Artifactory image promotion and digital signing processes

Skills

AWS CDK

TypeScript

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Artifactory

OIDC authentication

EKS

Tools

Terraform tooling

Artifactory

OIDC

Amazon EKS

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer - CDK & TypeScript to design, build, and maintain robust infrastructure and CI/CD platforms across cloud environments, driving deployment safety, automation, and scalability.

The role emphasizes pipeline engineering, IaC management with Terraform and AWS CDK, platform and runner administration on EKS, automated rollbacks, and artifact tooling, with a comprehensive benefits package and remote-friendly options.