Cloud Reliability Engineer

About this role

Lead DevOps & Cloud Engineer Denver, CO (Remote) Full-Time JPC - 20235 OpenKyber is assisting a client in their search for a Lead DevOps & Cloud Engineer. This is a full-time, remote opportunity. Our client is seeking a seasoned Lead DevOps & Cloud 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 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.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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) a...