Remote Cloud Platform & DevOps Leader

University of Colorado; United States; On-site; USD 109,612 - 133,970; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

No-cost/low-cost medical & dental

Disability, Life, Vision Insurance

401(a) with 10% contribution

401k/403b and 457 plans

Flexible spending accounts

Paid holidays and vacation

6 weeks parental leave

Tuition benefit

Free RTD EcoPass and parking

CU Advantage programs

Job summary

University Information Services (UIS) at the University of Colorado is seeking a Lead Cloud Platform & DevOps Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and support of cloud platforms and DevOps practices. This role focuses on cloud platform architecture, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and operational reliability.

The position requires strong collaboration with campus IT teams and information security, with responsibilities spanning platform reliability, security controls, and continuous

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, or related IT field with 3 years of platform engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, or related IT field with 5 years of platform engineering experience.
• Experience leading DevOps initiatives, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and release management.
• Cloud-based solutions on public clouds (e.g., AWS) with containerized/serverless apps in production.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and reliability practices; incident response support.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud platform architecture and security controls.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release processes across dev and prod.
• Support system integration across cloud and enterprise environments.
• Drive adoption of platform engineering practices including containerization and automation.
• Contribute to automation and data-driven technologies, including ML workloads.
• Collaborate across projects to ensure consistent DevOps and cloud engineering practices.

Skills

Cloud platform design

CI/CD pipelines

Containerization

Automation

Machine learning workloads

DevOps practices

Security and compliance

Education

Master’s degree in CS/CE/IT

Bachelor’s degree in CS/CE/IT

Tools

AWS EKS/Lambda

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

University Information Services (UIS) at the University of Colorado is seeking a Lead Cloud Platform & DevOps Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and support of cloud platforms and DevOps practices. This role focuses on cloud platform architecture, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and operational reliability.

The position requires strong collaboration with campus IT teams and information security, with responsibilities spanning platform reliability, security controls, and continuous