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We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer - GitHub Actions to drive our CI/CD transformation initiatives and lead the migration of critical development tooling platforms. In this role, you will architect scalable automation solutions, manage enterprise-grade GitHub infrastructure, and champion DevOps best practices across the organization.

Responsibilities

- Design and author advanced GitHub Actions workflows using YAML, contexts, expressions, matrix strategies, caching and artifacts
- Develop reusable workflows, composite actions and manage action versioning and publishing
- Oversee enterprise runner management, including self-hosted runners, runner groups and network/proxy constraints
- Implement CI/CD security practices such as least privilege tokens, environment protection rules, CODEOWNERS-required reviews and signed actions/pinning
- Containerize automation processes into portable Podman or Docker containers and deploy them to repositories like Artifactory, Azure Container Registry or GitHub Packages
- Leverage containers from serverless/ephemeral virtual environments such as Azure Container Apps or GitHub Runners
- Schedule, monitor and troubleshoot container workloads
- Lead tool migration and integration efforts, including migrating major dev tooling platforms from on-prem to SaaS through planning, stakeholder management and phased rollout




- Manage Artifactory repositories (maven/npm/pypi/nuget/docker), permissions, retention, replication and build-info
- Drive Sonar adoption through quality gates, quality profiles, project onboarding and branch/PR analysis
- Configure Dependabot at scale across ecosystems, including scheduling, grouping, ignore policies and security update handling

Requirements :

- 8-14 years of experience in software development
- 4+ years of deep CI/CD engineering expertise with GitHub Actions (or equivalent, with robust GitHub Actions delivery evidence)
- Proficiency in GitHub and GitHub Actions runner management
- Background in migrating at least one major dev tooling platform from on-prem to SaaS
- Knowledge of Linux fundamentals, networking basics (TLS, proxies, DNS) and automation/scripting using Python, Go, PowerShell or Bash
- Skills in Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible
- Expertise in reliability and operations, including monitoring/alerting, incident response and root cause analysis
- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Podman and Docker
- Understanding of container repositories such as Artifactory, Azure Container Registry and GitHub Packages
- Capability to grasp AI-powered skills for GitHub Actions troubleshooting and infrastructure/configuration prompts

We offer

- Opportunity to work on technical challenges that may impact across geographies

- Vast opportunities for self-development: online university, knowledge sharing opportunities globally, learning opportunities through external certifications

- Opportunity to share your ideas on international platforms

- Sponsored Tech Talks & Hackathons

- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions

- Possibility to relocate to any EPAM office for short and long-term projects

- Focused individual development

- Benefit package:

- Health benefits

- Retirement benefits

- Paid time off

- Flexible benefits

- Forums to explore beyond work passion (CSR, photography, painting, sports, etc.)

📌 Lead DevOps Engineer - Github Actions (Pune)
🏢 EPAM Systems
📍 Pune