Chief AWS DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a Chief AWS DevOps Engineer to lead shared cloud platform services and deliver consistent developer experiences aligned with CCoE standards. You will treat the platform as a product, shipping reusable building blocks, paved roads, and golden paths across product and application teams.

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 7+ 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

We offer

• 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