Lead AWS DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer to shape and evolve shared cloud platform services used across product and application teams. You will treat the platform as a product by delivering reusable building blocks, paved roads, and a consistent developer experience aligned with CCoE standards.

Responsibilities

• Design reusable platform capabilities, including shared services, standard compute patterns, and golden baselines, to enable safe and fast workload onboarding
• Operate and improve centralized services such as logging, monitoring, secrets, identity, file transfers, and key management
• Create paved roads and golden paths in partnership with product teams, security, and operations
• Coordinate with Cloud DevOps/Automation engineers to codify platform interfaces in IaC and pipelines
• Optimize platform reliability, scalability, resilience, and developer experience through continuous improvements
• Represent the voice of the client to prioritize platform features and lifecycle investments
• Verify platform capabilities align with security, compliance, and enterprise architecture guardrails

Requirements

• Hands-on cloud engineering experience of 5+ years, paired with a product/platform mindset
• Deep expertise in AWS compute, storage, networking, and managed services, including EKS, ECS, and Lambda
• Expert-level knowledge of AWS managed services such as EC2 and RDS
• Strong foundation in designing shared services for logging, monitoring, and secrets management
• Background with centralized integrations including Transfer Family, KMS, and IAM federation
• Familiarity with security-by-design practices, including IAM roles and SSO/OAuth integrations
• Clear understanding of SIEM feeds and policy-as-code approaches
• Experience defining platform APIs/interfaces and partnering with DevOps/IaC teams to automate adoption
• Client-focused mindset with excellent stakeholder communication skills
• English proficiency at B2 (Upper-Intermediate) level or higher

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