Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EPAM Systems is a technology services company delivering innovative solutions to industry leaders. The Lead Site Reliability Engineer will collaborate with development and operations teams to improve system reliability, scalability, performance, and efficiency through cloud solutions, monitoring, automation, and SRE practices. The role will also lead adoption of AI-enabled platform capabilities, including GenAI, autonomous agents, and AIOps.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with development, security, quality, and operation teams to implement SRE practices and ensure system reliability
- Define and support required level of reliability, availability, and performance for services and applications
- Design and deliver Cloud-based solutions tailored to client needs
- Troubleshoot, mitigate, and support fixing of the infrastructure and application issues in a timely manner
- Implement a monitoring system for the infrastructure and application reliability
- Guide adoption of AI technologies on the platform (GenAI, AI agents, AIOps) to improve operations
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to both engineering teams and management stakeholders
Skills
- - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- - 5+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related roles
- - Proven experience in any cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- - Experience with implementing SRE practices such as SLO/SLI, Error budgets, Postmortems, Reducing Toil, capacity planning, and Incident Management
- - Python or other scripting/programming language
- - Strong background in monitoring tools
- - Proficiency in CI/CD tools, infrastructure as code, and configuration management
- - Solid knowledge of container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)
- - English language proficiency at an Upper-Intermediate level (B2) or higher
- - Certification in Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, or similar technologies
- - Proven experience in DevOps
- - Expertise in deployment and management of LLMs, including technologies like RAG
- - Knowledge of managing and optimizing AI/ML models in production environments, including basic deployment, monitoring, and maintenance
- - Native AI cloud services: AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Azure AI
- - Experience in designing, building, and operating AI agents and agentic frameworks
- - Coding Agents: Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Trae, Antigravity
Benefits
- Remote-work option, with the comfort of working from home
- Opportunity to work abroad for up to two months per year
- Relocation opportunities within EPAM offices in 55+ countries
- Corporate and social events
- 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
- Discounts in local language schools, including offline courses for the Uzbek language
- Discounts in local language schools, including online courses for the Kazakh language
- Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Monetary bonuses for engaging in the referral program
- Comprehensive medical & family care package
- Medical & family care package
- Five trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
- Four trust days per year for personal needs
- Four trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
- Six trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
- Benefits package (sports activities, a variety of stores and services)
- Benefits package (hotels, restaurants, stores and services)
- Discounts for fitness clubs
- Discounts for fitness clubs, dance schools and sports programs
- Coverage of psychology sessions of your choice
- Housing support program: preferential mortgage access via Otbasy Bank partnership
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