Lead CloudOps Engineer Job Denver area,Colorado USA,IT/Tech

Our client is seeking a seasoned Lead Cloud Ops Engineer to own and evolve our cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and platform reliability. You will be the driving force behind our AWS-centric architecture spanning ECS Fargate today and EKS tomorrow while shaping the developer experience through on-demand environment provisioning, automated CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code best practices. This is a high-impact, highly visible individual contributor role with significant opportunity to influence engineering culture and delivery velocity.

Qualifications:

6+ years of Dev Ops / platform / cloud engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a lead or senior capacity.
Deep, hands-on AWS expertise: ECS (Fargate), RDS (MySQL), VPC, IAM, ALB, Cloud Watch, S3, ECR, Secrets Manager.
Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code with Terraform (preferred) or Cloud Formation.
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 / epoxy 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

Kubernetes administration experience (EKS preferred) and knowledge of Helm, Kustomize, or Git Ops 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 Fin Ops practices and AWS Cost Explorer / Savings Plans optimization.
AWS certifications:
Solutions Architect, Dev Ops Engineer - Professional.
Experience with feature-flag systems, progressive delivery, or trunk-based development at scale.

Core Responsibilities:

Design, provision, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using IaC tools (Terraform / Cloud Formation).
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, Cloud Watch, 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 (Cloud Watch / Open Search), 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 Dev Ops and cloud-native best practices.

Annual Base Salary Range for CA, CO, IL, NJ, NY, WA, and DC: $150,000 to $160,000. Actual compensation offered may vary depending on factors including but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training and/or experience.

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