Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

EPAM Systems; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. is seeking a hands-on Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to strengthen Kubernetes platform operations and CI/CD ecosystems. The role focuses on scaling cloud-native infra, improving pipelines, and enforcing IaC standards in AWS.

You will support onboarding, implement automated workflows, and advance observability across services. Ideal candidates have 3+ years in production Kubernetes and CI/CD with GitHub Actions, plus Terraform and AWS experience.

Qualifications

• 3+ years running Kubernetes in production.
• 3+ years building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
• Strong Terraform for IaC, including state management and governance.
• Solid AWS experience (VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS).
• Secrets management and secure configuration practices.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, and optimize Kubernetes clusters that support production workloads
• Improve cluster scalability, reliability, and performance
• Apply best practices for resource management, autoscaling, and workload isolation
• Strengthen observability through metrics, logging, and tracing for improved operational visibility
• Help onboard multiple teams and support platform enablement efforts
• Design, refactor, and scale GitHub Actions pipelines
• Build reusable workflows and establish standards across repositories
• Minimize deployment risk through automation, validation, and testing enhancements
• Maintain and improve Terraform-based infrastructure, including state management and modular design
• Assist with environment provisioning and lifecycle management
• Manage and optimize AWS services such as networking, IAM, compute, and storage
• Take part in incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement efforts

Skills

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Terraform

AWS (VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS)

Observability (Prometheus Grafana)

DevOps/SRE principles

Automation

Cloud cost optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

English communication (B2+)

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

GitHub Actions

AWS IAM

Job description

We're looking for a hands-on Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to help strengthen our Kubernetes platform operations and CI/CD ecosystem. In this role, the engineer will play an active part in scaling cloud-native infrastructure, improving deployment pipelines, enforcing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards, and boosting operational resilience. This production-facing position demands strong troubleshooting skills, a sense of ownership, and hands-on experience managing mission-critical workloads in AWS.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, and optimize Kubernetes clusters that support production workloads
• Improve cluster scalability, reliability, and overall performance
• Apply best practices for resource management, autoscaling, and workload isolation
• Strengthen observability through better metrics, logging, and tracing for improved operational visibility
• Help onboard multiple teams and support platform enablement efforts
• Design, refactor, and scale GitHub Actions pipelines
• Build reusable workflows and establish standards across repositories
• Minimize deployment risk through automation, validation, and testing enhancements
• Maintain and improve Terraform-based infrastructure, including state management and modular design
• Assist with environment provisioning and lifecycle management
• Manage and optimize AWS services such as networking, IAM, compute, and storage
• Take part in incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement efforts

Requirements

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience running and optimizing Kubernetes clusters in production
• At least 3 years of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions
• Strong expertise in Terraform for infrastructure as code, including state management and governance practices
• Solid proficiency in AWS services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, and EKS
• Familiarity with secrets management and secure configuration practices
• Hands-on background applying DevOps and SRE principles to production and high-availability systems
• Good understanding of cost optimization strategies in cloud environments
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with application teams and drive automation improvements
• English proficiency at a B2+ level or higher
• Nice to have Experience working in regulated or healthcare environments
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Skills in AWS cost optimization practices
• Knowledge of platform engineering best practices and internal developer platforms