About MISUMI Americas

MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas.

Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer

Location: Oakland, CA (Onsite / Local Candidates Required)
Salary Range: $180,000 – $220,000 USD (base salary)

Impact in This Role

Fictiv is seeking a Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production-grade cloud infrastructure at scale. This is a hands-on, highly technical role—not advisory. You will lead infrastructure initiatives end to end, from architecture and planning through implementation, debugging, and optimization, supporting a growing, multi-regional global platform.

This role requires deep, practical expertise in AWS, with a strong emphasis on CloudFormation, as well as extensive hands-on Node.js development experience used to build internal tools, automation, services, and platform capabilities. You will partner closely with engineering, security, and product teams to ensure reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency across our cloud infrastructure.

This position is based in Oakland, CA. Candidates must be located in the Oakland / greater Bay Area and able to work onsite as required.

Areas of Responsibility

Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation as the primary Infrastructure-as-Code tool
Own and evolve AWS environments to support high availability, scalability, failover, and security
Lead infrastructure projects from planning through execution, mentoring and guiding a small team
Build and maintain Node.js–based tools and services for automation, deployment workflows, monitoring, and platform operations
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments
Set up and manage logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions across AWS environments
Perform infrastructure upgrades and improvements while minimizing downtime
Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across infrastructure, applications, and CI/CD systems
Drive initiatives to improve performance, reliability, security posture, and cloud cost efficiency
Collaborate with cross-functional engineering, security, and operations teams
Maintain clear documentation for infrastructure, automation, and operational processes
Contribute to and uphold Fictiv’s Quality Management System (QMS)

Required Qualifications

Location

Must be located in the Oakland, CA / greater Bay Area
Ability to work onsite as required

Work Authorization

Must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder)

Experience

10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Systems Engineering
5+ years of hands-on production experience writing Node.js code, including building services, automation, or internal tools (not just deploying Node.js applications)
Expert-level, hands-on AWS experience, including:

EC2, Lambda, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, CodeBuild, Elastic Beanstalk

Extensive, real-world CloudFormation experience, including:

Authoring and maintaining complex templates
Managing stacks across multiple environments
Handling updates, rollbacks, drift detection, and full stack lifecycle management

Strong experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines
Hands-on experience debugging systems and applications in production environments
Experience with database performance tuning and optimization
Strong understanding of AWS security best practices (IAM, networking, encryption, least-privilege access)
Strong Linux systems experience
Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to Have

Experience leading or mentoring engineers on infrastructure projects
Experience operating multi-region or globally distributed AWS environments
Familiarity with containerized workloads (ECS, EKS)
Cloud cost optimization / FinOps experience
Background working in fast-growing or high-scale engineering organizations

Compensation

Base salary range: $180,000 – $220,000 USD
Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, skills, and alignment with role requirements

Why Fictiv

At Fictiv, you’ll work on real, complex infrastructure challenges that support the design and manufacturing of physical products around the world. This role offers the opportunity to own core cloud systems, influence architectural decisions, and play a key role in scaling a global platform.

Perks and Benefits

Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
401K plan
Monthly Virtual Work stipend for things like food, internet, travel, pet care, health and wellness
Parental leave programs
Paid volunteer days
Onboarding setup, including: standing desk, laptop, monitor, and chair, and a stipend for additional items such as headphones, blue light glasses, or any other ergonomic supplies you may want or need
And much, much more!

We’re actively seeking teammates who:

Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company.
Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team.
Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.
Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins.
Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates

We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.

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