Lead Site Reliability Engineer

We are seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen critical infrastructure reliability and accelerate DevOps maturity for high-impact services. You will design scalable automation, improve CI/CD and release practices, and lead rapid incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design reliability strategies and SRE practices for business-critical infrastructure
• Build automation and tooling in Python to improve stability, consistency, and operational leverage
• Develop and maintain CI/CD workflows and source control practices using GitLab
• Lead incident response during on-call rotations and restore service for business-critical issues
• Improve release management processes to support enterprise-scale delivery
• Harden cloud infrastructure across networking, compute, security, and IAM controls
• Implement configuration automation to reduce manual work and prevent drift
• Operate and troubleshoot Kubernetes-based workloads and developer-facing platform usage
• Partner with engineering stakeholders to prioritize reliability work and manage change safely
• Assess systemic risks and drive corrective actions to prevent recurring incidents

Requirements

• 5+ years of site reliability engineering or DevOps experience in cloud environments
• Hands-on experience with a leading cloud provider, with practical work across Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
• Leadership ability to guide technical direction and take ownership of critical infrastructure outcomes
• Project delivery experience improving DevOps tools, processes, and engineering maturity at scale
• Deep CI/CD knowledge across pipelines, source control, and release management
• Strong Kubernetes skills with practical usage as a developer
• Advanced Python programming skills for automation and tooling
• Enterprise-scale release management experience supporting complex systems
• Solid infrastructure fundamentals across networking, compute, security, IAM, and configuration automation
• Strong analytical skills to diagnose complex issues and identify high-leverage solutions
• Effective incident response skills, including on-call ownership and rapid restoration of service
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2, Upper-Intermediate)

Nice to have

• Amazon Web Services certification or proven advanced AWS operational experience
• Microsoft Azure certification or proven advanced Azure operational experience
• AI Architecture experience for reliability-focused platform design
• AI Solution Engineering experience integrating AI-enabled capabilities into operations
• Gen AI Solutions Development experience for operational intelligence and automation use cases

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