Lead CloudOps Engineer: AWS, CI/CD & On-Demand Envs

Solugenix; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Solugenix is seeking a seasoned Lead CloudOps Engineer to own and evolve our AWS-centric infrastructure, deploying pipelines and platform reliability. You will drive ECS Fargate today and EKS tomorrow, shaping on-demand environments, automated CI/CD, and IaC best practices for rapid delivery.

The role is highly visible, offers significant impact on engineering culture, and requires strong scripting, Kubernetes familiarity, and cost-optimization focus.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps/cloud engineering, with at least 2 in lead/senior role.
• Deep AWS expertise: ECS Fargate, RDS MySQL, VPC, IAM, ALB, S3, ECR, Secrets Manager.
• IaC with Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation; CI/CD via Bitbucket Pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and maintain scalable AWS infra with Terraform/CF.
• Lead ECS Fargate workloads; migrate to EKS as platform grows.
• Manage MySQL RDS performance, backups, high availability.
• Define cost optimization and tagging standards.
• Build end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Cloud architect

Scripting

Communication

Platform engineering

Tools

AWS

ECS Fargate

RDS MySQL

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bitbucket Pipelines

Jira/Confluence

EKS

Docker

Kubernetes

GitOps

Flyway

Job description

Solugenix is seeking a seasoned Lead CloudOps Engineer to own and evolve our AWS-centric infrastructure, deploying pipelines and platform reliability. You will drive ECS Fargate today and EKS tomorrow, shaping on-demand environments, automated CI/CD, and IaC best practices for rapid delivery.

The role is highly visible, offers significant impact on engineering culture, and requires strong scripting, Kubernetes familiarity, and cost-optimization focus.