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Lead DevOps Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience
  • At least one year of experience leading and managing teams
  • Solid, hands-on experience in DevOps or platform engineering roles

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with application engineers to transform recurring operational tasks into automated, observable, and repeatable processes
  • Enhance CI/CD pipelines with a focus on improving stability and reliability across all environments
  • Build and refine monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logging, and health checks to reduce dependence on manual daily system reviews
  • Take part in the team's operational and on-call rotation, conducting health reviews and coordinating with application engineers

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Microsoft Windows
  • Collaboration
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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EPAM Systems

  • IT Services & Consulting
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM) has used its software engineering expertise to become a leading global provider of digital engineering, cloud and AI-enabled transformation services, and a leading business and experience consulting partner for global enterprises and ambitious startups. We address our clients’ transformation challenges by fusing EPAM Continuum’s integrated strategy, experience and technology consulting with our 30+ years of engineering execution to speed our clients’ time to market and drive greater value from their innovations and digital investments. We make GenAI real with our AI LLM orchestration, testing and engineering solutions, EPAM DIAL, EPAM EliteA™ and EPAM AI/RUN™, respectively. We deliver globally, but engage locally with our expert teams of consultants, architects, designers and engineers, making the future real for our clients, our partners and our people around the world. We believe the right solutions are the ones that improve people’s lives and fuel competitive advantage for our clients across diverse industries. Our thinking comes to life in the experiences, products and platforms we design and bring to market. Added to the S&P 500 and the Forbes Global 2000 in 2021 and recognized by Glassdoor and Newsweek as a Top 100 Best Workplace, our multidisciplinary teams serve customers across six continents. We are proud to be among the top 15 companies in Information Technology Services in the Fortune 1000 and to be recognized as a leader in the IDC MarketScapes for Worldwide Experience Build Services, Worldwide Experience Design Services and Worldwide Software Engineering Services. Learn more at www.epam.com.

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Job description

We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join our team. This role is central to how we build, operate, and continuously improve the systems that keep our products running reliably at scale. You'll work in an environment where automation, observability, and engineering discipline are treated as core priorities rather than afterthoughts. If you're someone who takes pride in reducing operational toil while elevating the overall health and resilience of complex systems, this position offers a meaningful opportunity to make a lasting technical impact Responsibilities Work closely with application engineers to transform recurring operational tasks into automated, observable, and repeatable processes Enhance CI/CD pipelines, including automated quality gates, testing, deployment automation, environment management, and operational tooling, with a focus on improving stability and reliability across all environments Build and refine monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logging, and health checks to reduce dependence on manual daily system reviews Take part in the team's operational and on-call rotation, conducting health reviews, performing initial incident triage, and coordinating with application engineers when application-level fixes are needed Collaborate across teams on vulnerability management initiatives Establish clear visibility into dependencies and technology versions across repositories, including identifying unsupported or end-of-life packages and runtimes Strengthen secrets and service-account management practices, including automated credential rotation, dependency documentation, validation, and ongoing monitoring Work alongside engineers to help define and drive the team's adoption of containerization and Kubernetes Maintain operational documentation and runbooks while improving visibility into cross-system dependencies Identify repetitive operational work and engineer solutions to automate or eliminate unnecessary toil Identify and apply suitable AI-assisted approaches to boost engineering productivity, automate operational tasks, and speed up troubleshooting Requirements Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience At least one year of experience leading and managing teams Solid, hands-on experience in DevOps or platform engineering roles Working knowledge of .NET Framework and C# to support and maintain applications built on these technologies Practical experience with Generative AI-assisted development approaches to streamline and enhance the software delivery process Hands-on familiarity with JetBrains TeamCity for managing build automation and continuous integration pipelines Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and managing scalable application deployments Proficiency in Python for scripting, automation, and building operational tooling Experience applying AI-assisted engineering tools to speed up DevOps workflows and cut down on manual operational effort Nice to have Familiarity with GitHub Copilot to support and accelerate day-to-day coding and automation tasks Working knowledge of Linux for managing and maintaining server environments Experience with Microsoft Windows for supporting and administering Windows-based systems Exposure to MongoDB for working with NoSQL, document-based data storage Experience with PostgreSQL for managing and querying relational databases General knowledge of SQL databases for structuring, managing, and retrieving relational data

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