Lead DevOps Engineer
EPAM Systems
1 day ago
Remote
Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil
Web Development
We're currently seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to become part of our team. Your focus will be on sustaining dependable, scalable infrastructure along with existing CI/CD pipelines built on Azure, helping strengthen system reliability and operational effectiveness
Responsibilities
- Keep watch over and preserve the reliability, uptime, and performance levels of production environments
- Sustain and enhance infrastructure-as-code configurations running on Azure
- Oversee container orchestration through Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Provide support, diagnose issues, and update existing CI/CD pipelines built in GitHub Actions, expanding them as project demands shift
- Provide ongoing support and upkeep for Azure Functions handling serverless workloads
- Provide ongoing support and upkeep for Azure Search (Azure AI Search) implementations
- Handle identity and access governance leveraging Managed Identity and Azure RBAC
- Sustain observability infrastructure spanning monitoring, logging, and alerting via Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights
- Implement security best practices while overseeing secrets management and access permissions across environments
- Produce documentation covering systems and operational runbooks while working in close partnership with engineering teams
Requirements
- Five-plus years of practical, relevant experience within SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering positions
- No less than one year spent guiding and managing engineering teams
- Applied experience working across Azure services, including VMs, networking, storage, and identity/RBAC setup
- Background using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Bicep/ARM templates
- Direct experience with AKS and Docker for managing and orchestrating containers
- Experience constructing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines through Azure DevOps Pipelines or GitHub Actions
- Capable scripting skills in PowerShell, Python, Go, or Bash to support automation efforts
- Background working with observability tooling such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights
- Solid grasp of Linux/Windows system fundamentals and core networking concepts
- Strong English communication ability, with working fluency at B2 level or above, supporting clear understanding of business needs and their translation into technical solutions