Lead DevOps / Platform Engineer

EPAM Systems - Houston, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Houston, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Lead DevOps / Platform Engineer at EPAM Systems is a strategic role focused on designing impactful strategies and solving complex business problems for large, global organizations. This position offers high-impact opportunities for skill development and career advancement within a dynamic team environment.

Responsibilities

• Comprehend user requirements, build documentation, and translate requirements to software development.
• Ensure high service quality by understanding user constraints and working with internal teams to resolve issues.
• Proactively attend change review meetings to anticipate changes that may impact accounts.
• Provide ideas and advice on future solutions and assist in building them.
• Understand how systems should operate in AWS environments, focusing on security and cloud operations.
• Read/write from S3 buckets and manage parallelization with CPU and GPU compute.
• Implement AutoScaling using AutoScaling Groups and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Set up email notifications for job failures or completions.
• Create monitoring dashboards for job runs, service utilization, EC2 utilization, duration, and costs.
• Work independently with minimal supervision.

Requirements

• Experience with AWS Services, particularly S3 buckets and their benchmarking.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Lambda, Terraform, and CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of AutoScaling Groups and Job Queueing with SQS and LaunchTemplate.
• Experience with databases like DynamoDB and RDS.
• Familiarity with Docker implementation using ECR and ECS.
• Proficient in using CloudWatch and Athena for logs management.
• Experience with Python CDK for infrastructure management.
• Frontend development experience with Angular or React, and API Gateway.
• Backend development experience with C#.
• Strong programming skills in Python and C#.
• Ability to program software functionalities using AWS services.
• Experience with low-level support, including EC2 configuration and security management.
• Understanding of Security Groups, subnets, VPC endpoints, and their impacts.
• Experience with software installation and implementation.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with UI/UX design and implementation.
• Understanding of the Business Analyst process to translate software requirements.

Benefits

• Opportunities for continuous learning and growth.
• Collaborative work environment with multi-national teams.
• Dynamic and inclusive company culture.