Senior DevOps Architecture
We're looking for a Senior DevOps Architect to spearhead the design and rollout of scalable DevOps, SRE and platform engineering solutions, while leading enterprise-wide cloud transformation efforts and establishing technical standards for engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Head the architecture and rollout of scalable DevOps, SRE and platform engineering solutions across cloud and hybrid environments
- Establish DevOps strategy, reference architectures, engineering standards and golden paths covering CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes, observability and DevSecOps
- Push automation forward across infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, configuration management, monitoring and operational processes
- Build and refine SRE practices, covering SLI/SLO definition, error budgets, incident management, reliability engineering and post-incident improvement
- Offer technical governance and architectural leadership for complex cloud transformation efforts and large-scale DevOps initiatives
- Guide technical solutioning for RFPs/RFIs, proposals, estimations and client presentations, converting business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Coach architects and engineering teams, run architecture/design reviews and strengthen capabilities across DevOps, SRE and cloud technologies
- Work closely with customers, engineering teams and leadership to boost delivery speed, platform reliability, security, operational efficiency and cloud cost optimization
Requirements
- 18-25 years of overall IT experience, with deep expertise in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Engineering, including demonstrated hands-on architecture and technical leadership background
- Skilled in CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and GitOps, working with tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI and GitHub Actions
- Hands-on knowledge of Azure DevOps, Terraform/OpenTofu and Ansible, as well as ArgoCD or Flux
- Solid background with Docker, Kubernetes and managed Kubernetes platforms like EKS, AKS or GKE, including Helm, service mesh and platform engineering concepts
- Working knowledge of AWS, Azure and/or GCP architecture, covering landing zones, networking, security, governance and enterprise-scale cloud environments
- Deep expertise in SRE and observability, covering SLI/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, monitoring, logging, tracing, capacity and performance engineering
- Hands-on experience with DevSecOps, cloud security, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, policy-as-code and security integration throughout CI/CD pipelines
- Demonstrated capability to design enterprise DevOps/SRE transformation solutions, build reference architectures, engineering standards and reusable automation frameworks
- Solid client-facing and solutioning background, including RFP/RFI responses, estimations, technical proposals, architecture discussions and stakeholder management
Nice to have
- Familiarity with AIOps, GenAI-assisted operations/SDLC, automated RCA and intelligent remediation
- Background with Internal Developer Platforms like Backstage, plus FinOps and cloud cost optimization practices
- Relevant professional certifications in AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes or Terraform
Benefits
Opportunity to work on technical challenges that may impact across geographies
Vast opportunities for self-development: online university, knowledge sharing opportunities globally, learning opportunities through external certifications
Opportunity to share your ideas on international platforms
Sponsored Tech Talks & Hackathons
Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
Possibility to relocate to any EPAM office for short and long-term projects
Focused individual development
Benefit package:
- Health benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Paid time off
- Flexible benefits
Forums to explore beyond work passion (CSR, photography, painting, sports, etc.)
Skills
- AKS
- Ansible
- Argo CD
- Automation
- AWS
- Azure
- Azure DevOps
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Cloud Security
- DevOps
- DevSecOps
- Docker
- EKS
- FinOps
- Flux
- GCP
- Generative AI
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab
- GitOps
- GKE
- Helm
- Infrastructure as Code
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Networking
- Observability
- OpenTofu
- SDLC
- Secrets Management
- SRE
- Stakeholder Management
- Terraform
- Vulnerability Scanning