Lead Cloud Platform & Dev Ops Engineer
University of Colorado · Denver, CO
$121,791from the description
Jul 12, 2026
Denver, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A lead-level engineering role focused on designing and maintaining cloud platform infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices for a university system's central IT organization. Day-to-day work spans cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, containerization, monitoring and observability, and supporting machine learning workloads, while also guiding development and operations teams through documentation and enablement. Suits engineers with substantial hands-on experience across public cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and compliance-sensitive environments.
Senior level · 5+ years · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 290 people in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 120–430
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $140,636 (middle half $126,359–$175,118). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The title 'Lead Cloud Platform & DevOps Engineer' carries no standard seniority level word (Junior/Senior/Staff/Principal), so the title states no level; the actual requirements (5+ years, broad ownership of cloud architecture and DevOps practices) support a Senior classification.
The role is described as eligible to work remotely within Colorado only — it is not open to out-of-state remote workers, so remote is set to false.
Degree requirement: the JD offers two paths — Master's + 3 years OR Bachelor's + 5 years. The Bachelor's path is the lower bar and is a hard gate; equivalent experience is not offered as a substitute, so the degree requirement is set to Bachelors.
The salary figure ($121,791.28) is listed as the 'anticipated hiring range' — it appears to be a single fixed point rather than a range; min and max are set to the same value.
Python and Java are listed as interchangeable examples ('programming languages such as Python and/or Java'); Python is captured as the primary skill with Java as an alternative.
Prometheus and Grafana are listed as examples of monitoring/logging tools ('e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, etc.') under the required experience block; both are captured as required with each other as alternatives, reflecting that either satisfies the monitoring tooling gate.
Kafka and RabbitMQ are listed as interchangeable streaming technology examples ('e.g. Kafka or RabbitMQ') under the 2-year required experience block.
Machine learning frameworks are required alongside Python/Java in the 3-year programming experience block; no specific framework is named.
AWS sub-services EKS, ECS, and Lambda are cited as examples of the required public cloud platform experience; AWS is captured as the canonical skill name.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and ships infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a significant operational reliability and platform operations component that could support 15-1244.
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