Fictiv · 5 hours ago
Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer (Oakland Office)
Oakland, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$180K/yr - $220K/yr
10+ years expFictiv is a global manufacturing and supply chain company that enables organizations to scale globally across its four manufacturing centers. They are seeking a Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade cloud infrastructure while collaborating with engineering, security, and product teams to ensure reliability and scalability.
3D PrintingHardwareManufacturingMechanical Engineering
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
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)
Qualification
Required
Must be located in the Oakland, CA / greater Bay Area
Ability to work onsite as required
Must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder)
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
Preferred
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
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!
Company
Fictiv
Fictiv is a digital manufacturing and supply chain company that offers a digital platform for sourcing custom mechanical components.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$192.6MKey Investors
Activate Capital Partners40 North VenturesG2 Venture Partners
2025-04-17Acquired
2022-05-05Series E· $100M
2021-02-17Series D· $35M
Leadership Team
Dave Evans
Co-Founder, CEO
Nathan Evans
Co-founder & Head of Climate/AI
Recent News
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