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# Lead CloudOps Engineer

- **Company:** Solugenix Inc
- **Location:** Wheat Ridge, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Kubernetes Security, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Confluence, JIRA, Bash Shell, Cloud Engineering, Computer Networks, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Domain Name System (DNS), Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, MySQL, Routing, Network Segmentation, Performance Tuning, Runbook, Trunk-based Development, Data Logging, Scripting, Transport Layer Security, Load Balancing, Bitbucket Pipelines, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Database Migration, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Atlassian Tools, AWS Fargate, Bitbucket, Route53, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Dynatrace, OpenSearch, Docker, Vulnerability Analysis
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75938611-lead-cloudops-engineer

## About the Role

* 6+ years of DevOps / platform / cloud engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a lead or senior capacity.
 * Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
 * Deep, hands-on AWS expertise: ECS (Fargate), RDS (MySQL), VPC, IAM, ALB, CloudWatch, S3, ECR, Secrets Manager.
 * Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code with Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation.
 * Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket Pipelines; familiarity with the broader Atlassian ALM suite (Jira, Confluence).
 * Demonstrated experience building or operating on-demand / ephemeral environment systems at scale.
 * Strong scripting skills: Bash, Python, or similar.
 * Experience with containerization: Docker, ECS task definition management, container security.
 * Solid networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS, VPC routing, security groups, load balancing.
 * Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to document and present architecture decisions clearly., * Kubernetes administration experience (EKS preferred) and knowledge of Helm, Kustomize, or GitOps tooling (ArgoCD / Flux).
 * Experience with AWS Service Catalog, Control Tower, or AWS Organizations for multi-account governance.
 * Familiarity with database migration tooling (Flyway) and RDS Proxy.
 * Knowledge of FinOps practices and AWS Cost Explorer / Savings Plans optimization.
 * AWS certifications: Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer - Professional.
 * Experience with feature-flag systems, progressive delivery, or trunk-based development at scale.

## Description

* Design, provision, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using IaC tools (Terraform / CloudFormation).
 * Manage and optimize ECS Fargate workloads; lead the migration path to EKS as the platform matures.
 * Administer MySQL RDS instances: performance tuning, patching, backup/restore, and high-availability configuration.
 * Architect and manage supporting AWS services: VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, S3, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, ECR, Route 53, and more.
 * Define and enforce cloud cost optimization strategies and tagging standards.

CI/CD & On-Demand Environments

 * Build and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines in Bitbucket Pipelines integrated with the Atlassian ALM ecosystem (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket).
 * Design and implement an on-demand environment provisioning system that allows developers and QA to spin up isolated, production-like environments on demand accelerating feature development, testing, and release cycles.
 * Environments should be branch-scoped or PR-scoped, created and torn down automatically.
 * Integration with Jira tickets for traceability from issue to live preview environment.
 * Implement blue/green and canary deployment strategies on ECS Fargate; extend patterns to EKS.
 * Maintain reusable pipeline templates and enforce standardized build/test/deploy workflows across all repositories.

Reliability, Observability & Security

 * Establish SLOs, implement centralized logging (CloudWatch / OpenSearch), distributed tracing, and alerting.
 * Lead incident response for infrastructure-layer events; conduct blameless post-mortems and drive remediation.
 * Enforce cloud security best practices: least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, and vulnerability scanning in CI.
 * Manage disaster recovery planning, RTO/RPO targets, and regular DR drills.

Developer Experience & Platform Engineering

 * Serve as the internal platform owner making it easy for application developers to self-serve infrastructure within guardrails.
 * Collaborate with engineering teams to reduce deployment friction and improve local-to-production parity.
 * Document infrastructure patterns, runbooks, and architecture decisions in Confluence.
 * Mentor engineers on DevOps and cloud-native best practices.