Senior 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 cloud infrastructure, including ECS Fargate today and EKS tomorrow. You’ll drive on-demand environments, automated CI/CD, and IaC best practices to improve developer experience and platform reliability.

This individual contributor role demands strong AWS, Terraform/CloudFormation, and GitOps proficiency, with a focus on performance, security, and cost efficiency across the stack.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of DevOps / 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, CloudWatch, S3, ECR, Secrets Manager.
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code with Terraform (preferred) or CloudFormation.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket Pipelines and Atlassian ALM suite (Jira, Confluence).
• Experience with on-demand / ephemeral environment systems at scale.
• Strong scripting skills: Bash, Python, or similar.
• Containerization experience: Docker, ECS, and security implications.
• Solid networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS, VPC routing, security groups, load balancing.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and maintain scalable AWS infrastructure using IaC tools (Terraform / CloudFormation).
• Manage and optimize ECS Fargate workloads; migrate to EKS as the platform matures.
• Administer MySQL RDS instances: tuning, patching, backup/restore, high-availability configuration.
• Architect and manage supporting AWS services: VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, S3, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, ECR, Route 53.
• Define and enforce cloud cost optimization strategies and tagging standards.
• Build end-to-end CI/CD pipelines in Bitbucket Pipelines integrated with Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket.
• Design on-demand environment provisioning system with branch/PR-scoped environments.
• Blue/green and canary deployment patterns on ECS Fargate; extend to EKS.
• Maintain reusable pipeline templates and standardized workflows across repositories.
• Establish SLOs, centralized logging, tracing, alerting; lead incident response and post-mortems.
• Enforce cloud security best practices and disaster recovery planning.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Scripting (Bash/Python)

DevOps mindset

Tools

AWS (ECS/Fargate)

RDS MySQL

VPC

IAM

ALB

CloudWatch

S3

ECR

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bitbucket Pipelines

Jira/Confluence

EKS

Helm/Kustomize/GitOps

Flyway

RDS Proxy

AWS Cost Explorer/Savings Plans

AWS Certifications

GitOps

Job description

Solugenix is seeking a seasoned Lead CloudOps Engineer to own and evolve our AWS-centric cloud infrastructure, including ECS Fargate today and EKS tomorrow. You’ll drive on-demand environments, automated CI/CD, and IaC best practices to improve developer experience and platform reliability.

This individual contributor role demands strong AWS, Terraform/CloudFormation, and GitOps proficiency, with a focus on performance, security, and cost efficiency across the stack.