DevOps Technical Lead / Architect - Azure & Terraform

EPAM Systems • New York, NY

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About The Position

Lead EPAM's platform engineering team and partner with client technology leadership to modernize a .NET insurance platform. The role shapes CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and release practices to help move a monolith toward a scalable, service-oriented architecture and improve stability. The position combines long-term platform improvement initiatives with ongoing development requests, production deployment and operational work, and technical leadership.

Requirements

• Proven experience building Azure environments from scratch with Terraform, including modules, state management, and CI/CD-driven deployments.
• Hands-on expertise with Azure services such as App Services, Key Vault, Cosmos DB, networking, and Identity.
• Strong experience with Azure DevOps and Azure Pipelines for build, release, and deployment automation.
• Practical knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes for containerized workloads.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and Application Insights.
• Demonstrated ability to migrate manually built infrastructure to infrastructure as code without a production outage.
• Demonstrated ability to lead as a technical lead or architect.

Responsibilities

• Lead the platform engineering team and partner with client technology leadership to define and deliver long-term improvement initiatives alongside ongoing development requests.
• Design shared, versioned CI/CD pipeline templates with embedded quality and security gates, and run build-once release promotion through Test, Staging, PreProd, and Production with approvals and rollback.
• Execute weekly and off-cycle production deployments, including database releases and post-deployment checks, and coordinate with release management on readiness and go/no-go decisions.
• Build reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, automate templated environment provisioning, remediate drift, and decommission legacy environments.
• Strengthen identity, access, and security through secrets and key management, access request handling, and cloud-resource hardening.
• Drive root-cause analysis and remediation of platform incidents, and maintain operational runbooks, knowledge transfer, and a managed intake process for unplanned work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed