Lead Azure Cloud Engineer

Lead Azure Cloud Engineer 🏢 EPAM Systems 📍 Remote · Armenia 🕐 Full Time About the role We're looking for a seasoned Lead Azure Cloud Engineer to architect, construct, automate, and manage secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure. This role involves direct engagement with Azure infrastructure, containerization, DevOps pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, observability, security controls, and AI-driven cloud solutions. What you’ll do 🗂 • Construct and support reusable Azure deployment patterns for applications, APIs, front-end workloads, microservices, containers, serverless services, data integrations, and AI-enabled solutions • Operate and implement Azure Kubernetes Service environments, covering node pools, ingress, workload identity, secrets management, autoscaling, networking, monitoring, container registry integration, and security controls • Develop, maintain, and enhance Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, including reusable modules, multi-environment deployments, automated validation, and CI/CD pipeline integration • Create and implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, or comparable tools • Support DevOps practices including automated builds, testing, security scanning, artifact management, environment promotion, deployment approvals, rollback strategies, and release automation • Leverage GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted engineering tools to boost productivity in scripting, IaC development, CI/CD pipeline creation, code review, troubleshooting, documentation, and automation What we’re looking for 🔎 • Extensive hands-on experience architecting, implementing, and managing Azure cloud solutions within enterprise environments • Strong grasp of Azure networking, identity, governance, security, monitoring, and platform services • Extensive hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service, containers, container registries, ingress controllers, workload identity, autoscaling, monitoring, and container security • Extensive experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tools, including module development, state management, validation, and multi-environment delivery • Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, or similar platforms • Applied experience using GitHub Copilot or comparable AI-assisted development tools for infrastructure, automation, scripting, pipeline development, or documentation How to apply 🙋 Open on ITA Jobs and apply → More IT vacancies in Armenia, matched to your CV — jobs.ita.am/vacancies #SoftwareEngineering #Lead #Azure