Lead Azure Cloud Engineer

EPAM is a global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. With over thirty years of expertise in custom software, product, and platform engineering, they empower clients to become AI-Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments.

• Extensive hands-on experience architecting, deploying, and managing Azure cloud solutions in enterprise settings
• Sound knowledge of Azure networking, identity, governance, security, monitoring, and platform services
• Hands-on experience with Azure Landing Zone concepts, hub-and-spoke networking, private endpoints, private DNS, firewalls, NSGs, route tables, and workload integration patterns
• Extensive hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service, containers, container registries, ingress controllers, workload identity, autoscaling, monitoring, and container security
• Substantial experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools, including module development, state management, validation, and multi-environment delivery
• Substantial experience with CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, or similar platforms
• Solid grasp of DevOps and DevSecOps practices, including automated testing, security scanning, artifact management, release automation, and deployment governance
• Experience with GitHub, pull requests, code reviews, branching strategies, and collaborative engineering workflows
• Hands-on experience using GitHub Copilot or comparable AI-assisted development tools for infrastructure, automation, scripting, pipeline development, or documentation
• Experience with Azure PaaS and integration services including App Service, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Event Grid, Service Bus, Storage, Key Vault, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and related services
• Experience deploying observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Container Insights, dashboards, alerting, and operational runbooks
• Knowledge of Azure AI and Generative AI services, particularly Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, and AI-driven automation patterns
• Working knowledge of AI architecture patterns including RAG, agentic workflows, multi-agent systems, tool/function calling, grounding, prompt management, evaluation, and responsible AI
• Capability to resolve complex issues spanning cloud infrastructure, networking, containers, CI/CD, security, and application integration
• Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar languages
• Ability to operate independently, own technical delivery, and support production-grade cloud environments
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with architects, engineers, security teams, product teams, and business stakeholders

Nice to have:

• Microsoft Azure certifications: Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Developer Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Kubernetes certifications: CKA, CKAD, or CKS
• Experience with production-grade AKS platforms, service mesh, GitOps, Helm, Kustomize, Flux, Argo CD, or Kubernetes policy engines
• Experience with Azure AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, or similar AI orchestration frameworks
• Experience developing or supporting RAG platforms, AI agents, multi-agent workflows, or enterprise knowledge search solutions
• Experience with platform engineering, internal developer platforms, self-service cloud capabilities, paved roads, and reusable engineering templates
• Experience in regulated industries with rigorous compliance, security, auditability, and governance requirements
• Familiarity with SRE practices, incident response, reliability engineering, performance testing, and cost optimization

• Architect, deploy, and manage Azure cloud infrastructure, including subscriptions, resource groups, networking, identity, governance, security, and platform services
• Develop and maintain repeatable Azure deployment patterns for applications, APIs, front-end workloads, microservices, containers, serverless services, data integrations, and AI-driven solutions
• Deploy and manage Azure Kubernetes Service environments with node pools, ingress, workload identity, secrets management, autoscaling, networking, monitoring, container registry integration, and security controls
• Create, sustain, and enhance Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, including reusable modules, multi-environment deployments, automated validation, and CI/CD pipeline integration
• Architect and deploy CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, or similar tools
• Enable DevOps practices including automated builds, testing, security scanning, artifact management, environment promotion, deployment approvals, rollback strategies, and release automation
• Leverage GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted engineering tools for scripting, IaC development, CI/CD pipeline creation, code review, troubleshooting, documentation, and automation
• Deploy cloud-native solutions using Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Event Grid, Service Bus, Storage, Key Vault, API Management, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights
• Assist with deploying AI-driven solutions using Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Machine Learning, and related Azure AI services
• Develop and integrate AI solution components based on patterns like RAG, agentic workflows, multi-agent orchestration, tool/function calling, prompt management, grounding, evaluation, and responsible AI controls
• Deploy secure integration patterns using managed identities, RBAC, private endpoints, private DNS, network security groups, firewalls, and API gateways
• Set up and maintain observability with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Container Insights, dashboards, alerts, distributed tracing, and operational runbooks
• Resolve complex cloud, networking, deployment, performance, security, and production incidents
• Implement DevSecOps practices including secrets management, dependency scanning, container image scanning, policy validation, secure configuration, and compliance automation
• Tune Azure environments for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Contribute to technical standards, reusable templates, documentation, operational procedures, and platform engineering practices
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, code reviews, and engineering leadership
• Collaborate with architects and stakeholders to translate requirements into secure and maintainable Azure implementations

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