Cloud and Hosting Lead

Were looking for a Cloud and Hosting Lead to join our team in Lausanne or Aarau, Switzerland in a hybrid working mode. In this role, you will act as EPAMs primary infrastructure authority in Switzerland, co-locating with the clients Head of Cloud. You will own the entire Cloud & Hosting domain across a hybrid estate that includes on-premises VMware/Hyper-V, AWS cloud environments and an AVD/VDI setup. This is an excellent opportunity to take ownership of strategic infrastructure and cloud delivery within a mission-critical environment while influencing the clients modernization journey.

We offer/Benefits

• 5 weeks of vacation
• EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Enhanced parental leave
• Extended pension plan
• Daily sickness allowance insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Global business travel medical and accident insurance
• Learning and development opportunities including in-house training and coaching, professional certifications, and courses

*All benefits and perks are subject to certain eligibility requirements

• Please note that any offers will be subject to appropriate background checks
• We do not accept CVs from recruiting or staffing agencies
• For this position, we are able to consider applications from the following:
• Swiss nationals
• EU/EFTA nationals
• Third-country nationals based in Switzerland with an appropriate work permit
• Displaced people from Ukraine who are currently in Switzerland and hold, or have already applied for, S permits

Responsibilities

• Own the Cloud & Hosting domain across a hybrid infrastructure estate including VMware/Hyper-V, AWS environments and AVD/VDI setups
• Lead transition-in activities such as infrastructure discovery, dependency mapping, runbook creation and tooling onboarding
• Provide technical leadership and mentor offshore engineering teams handling BAU operations, patching, monitoring, backup, capacity management and incident resolution
• Drive cloud optimization through FinOps practices, workload right-sizing and AVD capacity tuning
• Serve as on-call escalation point for P1/P2 incidents
• Ensure NIS2 compliance and adherence to Swiss data residency requirements in cloud operations
• Collaborate with client leadership during strategic and operational decision-making

Requirements

• 7–10 years of infrastructure and cloud engineering experience
• Proven track record of cloud modernization initiatives
• Solid experience in Managed Service Provider or outsourcing environments
• Knowledge of hybrid deployments including on-prem virtualization and public cloud services
• Professional fluency in English; German/French is a strong advantage