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Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 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

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

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
  • 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'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

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