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Lead Cloud Engineer

EPAM Systems
📍 Anywhere in the World 💰 🕑 Any timezone
Full-time Senior Engineering Design

Job Description

Headquarters: Belarus

URL: http://epam.com

We are looking for a Lead Cloud Engineer to join our innovative team.

We are delivering a Unified Automation Platform (Internal Developer Platform) to standardize secure, repeatable infrastructure delivery across Azure and on-premises VMware using templates and golden paths. You will lead Azure automation and AKS operations and strengthen IaC/CaC engineering practices. Apply to help teams ship faster with consistent, compliant deployments.

Responsibilities

- Implement and maintain Terraform/OpenTofu modules for Azure App Services, Container Apps, Function Apps, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Postgres, following designs defined by the Azure Architect

- Build and operate the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) platform day-to-day: cluster/node-pool provisioning, add-on configuration (ingress, cert-manager, external-dns, monitoring, policy), and namespace/tenant onboarding

- Implement identity wiring (managed identities, SPN/app registrations) and secrets integration (Azure Key Vault, OpenBao) for Azure workloads

- Build and maintain Image Factory pipelines for VM and container golden images (Linux and Windows/cloudbase-init baselines, CIS hardening, image scanning)

- Execute Configuration as Code (Ansible) playbooks for VM post-provisioning and golden-image handoff

- Support Backstage golden-path template integration for Azure provisioning, testing generated infrastructure end-to-end

- Troubleshoot and remediate production issues across Azure automation modules during Implementation and Adoption

- Contribute to module testing, drift detection, and documentation per the platform's Infrastructure as Code Engine standards

Requirements

- 5+ years of hands-on experience building and operating Azure infrastructure via Terraform/OpenTofu, including CI/CD-driven deployment (Azure DevOps)

- At least 1 year of relevant leadership experience

- Experience operating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters in production, including...