Lead Python Engineer

We are searching for a committed Lead Python Engineer to join our team.

This role focuses on enhancing cloud infrastructure, automation pipelines, and engineering approaches within an AWS-driven environment. The opportunity allows you to drive impactful migrations, contribute to AI-enabled engineering enhancements, and help shape secure, scalable platform foundations.

Responsibilities

• Operate inside a spec-driven software development lifecycle
• Create AI-driven improvements for design, delivery, and triage workflows
• Review emerging tools and solutions as potential additions to enterprise-level AI enablement offerings
• Plan, build, and support AWS Lambda services and API Gateway endpoints using Python and boto3
• Drive the CI/CD shift from legacy cicd-functions pipelines toward GitHub Actions workflows
• Manage infrastructure as code primarily through Terraform, supplemented by Serverless frameworks
• Execute brownfield refactors, service decommissions, and migrations, such as OAuth migrations, WAF block-mode deployments, and Mythos SAST/SCA fixes
• Define and refine AWS WAF rules while resolving security findings raised by SAST and SCA tooling
• Optimize operational workflows and contribute to agentic platform initiatives, where familiarity with n8n, LangChain, or similar orchestration tools is considered a plus
• Collaborate with the SRE Consultant on telemetry gaps and Lambda-based data collection automation

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience
• At least one year of experience leading and overseeing development teams
• Python development background centered on AWS Lambda and API Gateway in production environments
• Solid proficiency with boto3 across services including IAM, Secrets Manager, SSM, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and WAF
• Hands-on Terraform skills for production-grade infrastructure as code, including writing, refactoring, and reviewing modules
• Functional experience with the Serverless Framework, including maintaining and migrating legacy stacks
• Practical authoring of CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, with readiness to lead a cicd-functions to GHA migration
• Experience setting up AWS WAF rules, activating block mode, and supporting incident response activities
• Familiarity with security tools such as SAST and SCA, alongside exposure to a structured compliance framework
• Brownfield mindset with a clear track record of migrations, decommissions, and refactors rather than greenfield projects
• Outstanding verbal and written English communication skills (B2+ level or higher)

Nice to have

• Experience integrating internal and external systems through REST APIs, including approaches like ServiceNow OAuth client credentials flows
• Familiarity with Snowflake for cloud data warehousing, analytics, and data platform integration

We offer

• International projects with top brands
• Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
• Healthcare benefits
• Employee financial programs
• Paid time off and sick leave
• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
• Global career opportunities
• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
• EPAM Employee Groups
• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn