Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to support its observability and infrastructure initiatives. The role will lead the design and implementation of monitoring, telemetry, infrastructure-as-code, and incident-response capabilities across a distributed AWS environment, supporting multi-region disaster recovery.
Responsibilities
- Disaster Recovery Observability: Design, deploy, and validate monitoring and telemetry strategies supporting our transition from single-region (us-east-1) to multi-region (us-east-2 pilot-light and future Active-Active) architectures
- Platform-as-Code (PaC): Manage and automate Datadog configurations (Monitors, Dashboards, Synthetics, SLOs, and composite alerts) and AWS infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CDK, and TypeScript
- Telemetry & Ingestion Pipelines: Architect and scale high-throughput telemetry ingest pipelines utilizing AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, and Firehose
- Observability Pipelines & Routing: Implement and maintain log routing, enrichment, and redaction workflows using OP2 / Vector (Observability Pipelines Worker) alongside Splunk, GCP Pub/Sub sinks, and OpenTelemetry (OTel)
- AWS-Native Monitoring & Incident Response: Configure comprehensive CloudWatch metrics and alarms for edge, ALB, CloudFront, Route 53, and VPC Lattice, alongside Lambda runtime monitoring and Datadog-to-PagerDuty alert routing
Skills
- - AWS CDK & TypeScript for infrastructure provisioning and automation
- - Agent & Cluster Agent deployment/management
- - Monitors, Dashboards, Synthetics, and SLOs managed via Terraform
- - Advanced constructs: Composite monitors, cardinality management, and retention controls
- - OP2 / Vector (Observability Pipelines Worker)
- - Log routing, enrichment, and redaction
- - Splunk & GCP Pub/Sub sinks; OpenTelemetry standards
- - CloudWatch metrics and alarms (Edge, ALB, CloudFront, Route 53, VPC Lattice)
- - AWS Lambda runtime monitoring & performance tuning
- - PagerDuty integration and alert-to-page wiring from Datadog
- **This Remote Position Cannot be Performed in New York City.**
- EPAM will not provide new H-1B visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates with existing transferable H-1B status may be considered
Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Subsidized)
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (Company Provided)
- Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
- Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Paid Time Off – the employee will be eligible to accrue 15-25 paid days, depending on specific level and tenure with EPAM (accrual eligibility may change over time)
- Paid Holidays - nine (9) total per year
- Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protection
- Accident Insurance
- Employee Discounts
- Pet Insurance
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- If otherwise eligible, participation in the discretionary annual bonus program
- If otherwise eligible and hired into a qualifying level, participation in the discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program
- Remote position; cannot be performed in New York City
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