Lead AWS DevOps Engineer - CDK & TypeScript
Primary stack
GitHub ActionsDevOpsAWSTypeScriptTerraform
Job description
About the Position
We are seeking a Lead AWS DevOps Engineer - CDK & TypeScript to design, build, and maintain robust infrastructure and CI/CD platforms, driving deployment safety, automation, and scalability across cloud environments. Req# 1080520892
Responsibilities
- Pipeline Engineering: Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, TypeScript, and Python.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Management: Read, analyze, debug, and contribute to Terraform and AWS CDK infrastructure definitions.
- Platform & Runner Administration: Engineer and scale GitHub Actions platform components, including reusable workflows, merge queues, self-hosted ARC (Actions Runner Controller) runners on Amazon EKS, and OIDC cloud authentication.
- Deployment Safety & Resilience: Implement and manage automated and emergency rollback mechanisms for AWS CDK and CloudFormation (including stack teardown, fix-forward vs rollback strategies), progressive-rollout pipelines, and bake-time gating.
- Artifact Management & Deployment Tooling: Build and operate CDK/CloudFormation deploy tooling (such as wave-ordered deploy-runners) and manage Artifactory image promotion and digital signing processes.
Requirements
- AWS CDK & TypeScript: Strong, production-level proficiency in TypeScript and hands-on experience with AWS CDK for cloud infrastructure.
- GitHub Actions Platform Engineering: Expertise in setting up and maintaining reusable workflows, merge queues, self-hosted ARC runners on EKS, and secure OIDC cloud authentication.
- Deployment Safety Controls: Proven experience implementing automated/emergency rollbacks for CDK/CloudFormation and configuring progressive rollouts with bake-time gates.
- Deployment Tooling & Artifacts: Familiarity with wave-ordered deploy-runners, Artifactory image promotion, and artifact signing.
- Terraform: Solid, working knowledge of Terraform for infrastructure reading and debugging.
We Offer
- 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
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