Lead AWS DevOps Engineer - CDK & TypeScript

We are seeking a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer - CDK & TypeScript to design, build, and maintain robust infrastructure and CI/CD platforms, driving deployment safety, automation, and scalability across cloud environments.

Req# 1080520892

Responsibilities

• Pipeline Engineering: Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, TypeScript, and Python
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Management: Read, analyze, debug, and contribute to Terraform and AWS CDK infrastructure definitions
• Platform & Runner Administration: Engineer and scale GitHub Actions platform components, including reusable workflows, merge queues, self-hosted ARC (Actions Runner Controller) runners on Amazon EKS, and OIDC cloud authentication
• Deployment Safety & Resilience: Implement and manage automated and emergency rollback mechanisms for AWS CDK and CloudFormation (including stack teardown, fix-forward vs rollback strategies), progressive-rollout pipelines, and bake-time gating
• Artifact Management & Deployment Tooling: Build and operate CDK/CloudFormation deploy tooling (such as wave-ordered deploy-runners) and manage Artifactory image promotion and digital signing processes

Requirements

• AWS CDK & TypeScript: Strong, production-level proficiency in TypeScript and hands-on experience with AWS CDK for cloud infrastructure
• GitHub Actions Platform Engineering: Expertise in setting up and maintaining reusable workflows, merge queues, self-hosted ARC runners on EKS, and secure OIDC cloud authentication
• Deployment Safety Controls: Proven experience implementing automated/emergency rollbacks for CDK/CloudFormation and configuring progressive rollouts with bake-time gates
• Deployment Tooling & Artifacts: Familiarity with wave-ordered deploy-runners, Artifactory image promotion, and artifact signing
• Terraform: Solid, working knowledge of Terraform for infrastructure reading and debugging

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)
• Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Paid Time Off – the employee will be eligible to accrue 15-25 paid days, depending on specific level and tenure with EPAM (accrual eligibility may change over time)
• Paid Holidays - nine (9) total per year
• Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection
• Accident Insurance
• Employee Discounts
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• If otherwise eligible, participation in the discretionary annual bonus program
• If otherwise eligible and hired into a qualifying level, participation in the discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program