Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

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

Benefits

• International projects with top brands
• Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
• Healthcare benefits
• Employee financial programs
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
• Global career opportunities
• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
• EPAM Employee Groups
• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn