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DevOps / Platform Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience operating and optimizing Kubernetes clusters in production environments
  • 2+ years of experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
  • Expertise in Terraform for infrastructure as code, including state management and governance practices
  • Proficiency in AWS services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, and EKS

Responsibilities

  • Operate, maintain, and optimize Kubernetes clusters supporting production workloads
  • Improve cluster scalability, reliability, and performance
  • Implement best practices for resource management, autoscaling, and workload isolation
  • Enhance observability, including metrics, logging, and tracing, to improve operational visibility

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
  • Collaboration

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 seeking a hands-on DevOps / Platform Engineer to strengthen our Kubernetes platform operations and CI/CD ecosystem. The engineer will actively contribute to scaling cloud-native infrastructure, improving deployment pipelines, enforcing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards, and enhancing operational resilience. This is a production-facing role requiring strong troubleshooting capability, an ownership mindset, and practical experience operating mission-critical workloads in AWS. Responsibilities Operate, maintain, and optimize Kubernetes clusters supporting production workloads Improve cluster scalability, reliability, and performance Implement best practices for resource management, autoscaling, and workload isolation Enhance observability, including metrics, logging, and tracing, to improve operational visibility Support multi-team onboarding and platform enablement Design, refactor, and scale GitHub Actions pipelines Implement reusable workflows and enforce standards across repositories Reduce deployment risk through automation, validation, and testing improvements Maintain and strengthen Terraform-based infrastructure, including state management and modularity Support environment provisioning and lifecycle management Manage and optimize AWS services, including networking, IAM, compute, and storage Participate in incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement initiatives Requirements 2+ years of experience operating and optimizing Kubernetes clusters in production environments 2+ years of experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions Expertise in Terraform for infrastructure as code, including state management and governance practices Proficiency in AWS services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, and EKS Knowledge of secrets management and secure configuration practices Background in applying DevOps and SRE principles to production and high-availability systems Understanding of cost optimization strategies within cloud environments Capability to collaborate cross-functionally with application teams and drive automation improvements Proficiency in English at a B2+ level Nice to have Background in regulated or healthcare environments Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus and Grafana Skills in AWS cost optimization practices Understanding of platform engineering best practices and internal developer platforms

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