Lead Cloud Engineer
Description
Headquarters: Belarus URL: http://epam.com We are looking for a Lead Cloud Engineer to join our innovative team.We are delivering a Unified Automation Platform (Internal Developer Platform) to standardize secure, repeatable infrastructure delivery across Azure and on-premises VMware using templates and golden paths. You will lead Azure automation and AKS operations and strengthen IaC/CaC engineering practices. Apply to help teams ship faster with consistent, compliant deployments.ResponsibilitiesImplement and maintain Terraform/OpenTofu modules for Azure App Services, Container Apps, Function Apps, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Postgres, following designs defined by the Azure ArchitectBuild and operate the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) platform day-to-day: cluster/node-pool provisioning, add-on configuration (ingress, cert-manager, external-dns, monitoring, policy), and namespace/tenant onboardingImplement identity wiring (managed identities, SPN/app registrations) and secrets integration (Azure Key Vault, OpenBao) for Azure workloadsBuild and maintain Image Factory pipelines for VM and container golden images (Linux and Windows/cloudbase-init baselines, CIS hardening, image scanning)Execute Configuration as Code (Ansible) playbooks for VM post-provisioning and golden-image handoffSupport Backstage golden-path template integration for Azure provisioning, testing generated infrastructure end-to-endTroubleshoot and remediate production issues across Azure automation modules dur --- Source: weworkremotely - EPAM Systems
