We are building AI-assisted automation to eliminate manual operations and raise delivery reliability while owning AWS infrastructure and CI/CD end-to-end. As a Chief DevOps Engineer, you will evolve Terraform and Jenkins, tune SonarQube quality gates, and use Claude Code to accelerate implementation across the team.
Responsibilities
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Spot manual, repetitive, or error-prone operational work and replace it with automated, AI-assisted workflows, then quantify the time and toil eliminated
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Develop and maintain Terraform infrastructure as code, covering modules, state strategy, environment promotion, drift detection, and remediation
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Own and enhance Jenkins pipelines across build, test, security scan, artifact, and deploy stages, including shared libraries and reusable pipeline patterns
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Integrate and calibrate SonarQube quality gates so code quality and security findings highlight what matters without generating noise
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Leverage coding agents such as Claude Code as a primary implementation vehicle by breaking down work, setting specs and guardrails, directing execution, and rigorously reviewing results
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Architect and debug AWS systems end to end, spanning compute, networking, IAM, and storage, and understand how these services behave under failure
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Respond to and resolve production and pipeline incidents, then turn learnings into runbooks and automation to prevent repeat issues
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Assess whether existing tooling is still the right fit, and when change is needed, plan and deliver migrations methodically while keeping developers supported and productive
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Document delivered automation and infrastructure so the whole team can understand, operate, and maintain what you build
Requirements
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7+ years of experience with AWS core services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch), including practical knowledge of failure behavior in real-world scenarios
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Production background with infrastructure as code using Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation/CDK, or similar, with ownership of infrastructure definitions beyond prebuilt modules
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Proven ownership of CI/CD pipelines in production using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, or comparable tooling
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Strong system design fundamentals, including ability to evaluate tradeoffs around failure domains, state, idempotency, and blast radius before implementation
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Excellent troubleshooting ability, applying an evidence-based, structured approach to debugging distributed systems and CI/CD pipelines under pressure
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Solid software engineering discipline (testing, version control, modularity, code review, readable code) applied to infra and tooling, with proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar language
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Practical experience using coding agents for meaningful implementation work, with sound judgment to validate and review agent output to the same bar as your own
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Developer-as-customer mindset, with the discipline to stage migrations carefully and communicate changes clearly rather than forcing disruptive cutovers
Nice to have
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Direct experience with Terraform, Jenkins, and SonarQube, including shared libraries and reusable pipeline patterns
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Familiarity with static analysis and code-quality gating tools such as Snyk, Semgrep, Checkmarx, or CodeQL
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Production-scale containers and orchestration experience with Docker and Kubernetes/EKS
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Knowledge of observability tooling such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, including building alerting teams trust
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Experience with security and compliance automation, including secrets management, policy as code, and SOC 2 or similar audit evidence collection
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Experience creating internal developer platforms or self-service tooling
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Background in security or vulnerability management products
We offer
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International projects with top brands
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Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
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Healthcare benefits
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Employee financial programs
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Paid time off and sick leave
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Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
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Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
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Global career opportunities
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Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
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EPAM Employee Groups
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Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn
EPAM is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.