Data DevOps Lead

The Data DevOps Lead owns the infrastructure and delivery processes for data: building and evolving the data platform, establishing CI/CD and DataOps practices, leading a small team of engineers, and setting technical standards. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, DevOps, and team leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the data platform architecture: design, evolve, and scale the infrastructure for data pipelines
• Build and maintain CI/CD processes for data pipelines, infrastructure, and ML models
• Implement Infrastructure as Code, versioning, automated testing, and data monitoring practices
• Define the technical roadmap and standards, and manage technical debt
• Ensure reliability, security, and cost-efficiency of the infrastructure (SLAs, observability, cost optimization)
• Partner with stakeholders: data engineers, analysts, DS/ML teams, product, and security

Requirements

• 5+ years in DevOps / Data Engineering, including technical or team leadership experience
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML infrastructure and supporting AI/ML workloads in production (MLOps)
• Strong command of one cloud platform (AWS / GCP / Azure) and its data services
• Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform (or equivalent IaC)
• Pipeline orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or equivalent)
• Experience with big data and streaming: Spark, Kafka, data lake / DWH (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, etc.)
• Languages: Python and/or Scala, strong SQL, bash
• Monitoring and observability setup (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
• Experience with LLM/GenAI infrastructure and serving
• Data governance, security, and data compliance
• Cloud cost optimization (FinOps)

We offer

CONTINUOUS UPSKILLING, LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

• Diversity of tasks and projects
• Assessment center for objective review of competency level
• Personal development plan
• Mentoring programs and leadership development
• Certification and professional development support 
• Access to learning platforms including more than 2,500 internal courses
• English courses taught by certified teachers

CORPORATE BENEFITS

• Extra leave days
• Referral bonuses

COMPENSATION PACKAGE

• Competitive compensation paid in USD
• Regular salary and performance reviews

MEDICAL & HEALTHCARE

• Private health insurance
• Well-being events

WORKING ENVIRONMENT

• Recreation areas and kitchens
• Tea, coffee and snacks
• Sports equipment and game consoles
• IT Equipment
• Microsoft’s Software Assurance Home Use Program (HUP)

Please note that our Talent Attraction Team reviews applications and CVs submitted in English.

EPAM is global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. With over thirty years of expertise in custom software, product and platform engineering, we empower our clients to become AI-Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments.

Remote in Türkiye