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Lead System Engineer

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on implementing and advancing DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering practices at the company. You will collaborate with application and product teams to enhance operational excellence and ensure high availability and performance.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience working within DevOps or SRE teams.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields and/or equivalent work experience.
  • Professional experience in supporting Production Infrastructure.
  • Strong knowledge of CI/CD.
  • Experience with Dynatrace & Splunk.

Responsibilities

  • Help implement DevOps & SRE practices
  • Drive discussions for technology roadmap for SRE team
  • Design, develop and manage monitoring, alerting, operability and observability for applications using Dynatrace, Splunk & Grafana
  • Strive for continuous improvement for continuous integration & continuous deployment (CI/CD Pipeline)

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Analytical Thinking
  • Problem Solving
  • Organizational Skills
  • Social Skills

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 dedicated and proactive engineer to join our team, focusing on the implementation and advancement of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. In this role, you will help drive the technology roadmap for our SRE team, champion operational excellence, and partner closely with application and product teams to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability. You will play a key role in building robust monitoring and observability systems, automating workflows, enforcing security standards, and continuously improving our CI/CD pipelines and incident management processes. Req# 1124502909 Responsibilities Help implement DevOps & SRE practices Drive discussions for technology roadmap for SRE team Identify, craft, and maintain SLIs and SLOs for teams, as well as metrics such as MTTR, Lead time for change, Deployment Frequency and Change Failure Rate Design, develop and manage monitoring, alerting, operability and observability for applications using Dynatrace, Splunk & Grafana Assess performance, monitor and recommend performance enhancements Enforce application teams to meet performance and availability SLAs Partner with product owners to manage error budget, prioritize toil backlog and validate against team, application, and incident metrics Be part of an on-call rotation for production events or outages Strive for continuous improvement for continuous integration & continuous deployment (CI/CD Pipeline) Apply troubleshooting techniques, incident management and root cause analysis Encourage and build automated processes wherever possible Implement cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management Manage periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer Work in partnership with application teams to ease their adoption of the platform Coordinate and communicate within the team and with customers Analyze the current system in use and develop plans for enhancements and improvements Requirements 5+ years of experience working within DevOps or SRE teams Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related fields and/or equivalent work experience Professional experience in supporting Production Infrastructure Strong knowledge of CI/CD An understanding of observability (monitoring, logging and tracing) Experience with Dynatrace & Splunk Experience with a leading cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) Experience operating high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed software in production Ability to work independently and as part of a team Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset combined with experience troubleshooting under pressure Strategic thinking, complex problem solving and analytical capabilities Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, with experience developing and instilling a culture of operational maturity Ability to adjust quickly to new technologies English is B2 or higher

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