Backend Engineer
Senior Infrastructure / Cloud Engineer
Remote
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We are looking for a
Senior Infrastructure / Cloud Engineer
to join a managed engineering capacity team supporting the client's platform. The engineer will work within an AWS-based Kubernetes production environment and contribute to infrastructure modernization, CI/CD and tooling migrations, environment hardening, identity governance integration, observability improvements, and cloud platform readiness initiatives. This role will support a 12-month managed capacity engagement focused on clearing technical debt and modernization backlog while working closely with the client's infrastructure, platform, and product engineering teams.
This is a fully remote position that offers you the flexibility to work from any location in Armenia, whether it's your home or well-equipped offices in Yerevan or Gyumri.
Responsibilities
- Support, maintain, and improve Kubernetes-based infrastructure for production web services and workers
- Contribute to CI/CD modernization, including GitHub Actions pipeline design, migration, optimization, and troubleshooting
- Support repository, tooling, and work management migrations, including GitHub and JIRA-related integrations
- Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code, preferably using Terraform
- Improve deployment automation and support GitOps or declarative deployment practices
- Support AWS cloud infrastructure, including platform services such as RDS PostgreSQL, S3, CloudFront, Redis, and related components
- Contribute to environment hardening, access control, and secure infrastructure configuration
- Support identity and access governance initiatives, including integration with enterprise IGA platforms
- Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability practices using tools such as Datadog
- Participate in agile ceremonies, technical design discussions, implementation planning, and infrastructure reviews
- Document infrastructure changes, operational runbooks, and handoff materials
- Collaborate with the client's teams to ensure changes meet security, compliance, and engineering quality standards
Requirements
- 5+ years of infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or cloud engineering experience
- Expertise in Kubernetes in production environments and strong AWS cloud experience
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
- Deep experience in CI/CD, including GitHub Actions pipeline design and migration
- Experience with deployment automation, GitOps, or declarative infrastructure practices
- Understanding of cloud security, access control, RBAC, and least-privilege principles
- Experience supporting production-grade infrastructure, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident analysis
- Familiarity with observability tooling, preferably Datadog
- Strong written and spoken English communication skills
- Minimum of 4 hours of daily overlap with US Eastern working hours
Nice to have
- Experience with Azure
- Experience with identity governance and administration platforms
- Familiarity with AWS RDS PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, S3, and CloudFront or similar cloud services
- Experience supporting repository migrations, CI/CD platform migrations, or work management tool integrations
- Experience working in enterprise security and compliance environments
- Familiarity with ISO 27001-aligned controls, GDPR-related requirements, and audit logging practices
- Experience working with distributed agile engineering teams
We offer
- We connect like-minded people
- Delivering innovative solutions to industry leaders, making a global impact
- Enjoyable working environment, whether it is the vibrant office or the comfort of your home
- Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
- Relocation opportunities within our offices in 55+ countries
- Corporate and social events
- We invest in your growth
- Leadership development, career advising, soft skills and well-being programs
- Certifications, including GCP, Azure and AWS
- Unlimited access to EPAM's internal learning database
- Free English classes with certified teachers
- We cover it all
- Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
- Comprehensive medical & family care package
- Four trust days per year for personal needs
- Discounts for fitness clubs
- Benefits package (hotels, restaurants, stores and services)
EPAM is 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, we empower our clients to become AI-Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments.
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