Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer; Oakland Office

Fictiv Exists to Enable Hardware Innovators to Build Better Products, Faster

Fictiv is a global manufacturing and supply chain company that enables organizations to scale globally across Fictiv’s four global manufacturing centers in India, Mexico, China, and the U.S.. Companies use Fictiv to access high-quality production, optimize supply chain logistics, and mitigate supply chain risk—ensuring they can move from prototype to full‑scale manufacturing with speed and confidence. To date, Fictiv has delivered more than 35 million commercial and prototype parts for industries such as aerospace, robotics, automotive, climate tech, and more, helping them innovate faster, free up precious resources, and drive profitable growth.

Location:
Oakland, CA (Onsite / Local Candidates Required)

Salary Range: $180,000 – $220,000 USD (base salary)

Fictiv is seeking a Lead Cloud Dev Ops Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production‑grade cloud infrastructure s 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 Cloud Formation, 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.

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using Cloud Formation 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)

• 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 Dev Ops, 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, Cloud Watch, RDS, Code Build, Elastic Beanstalk
• Extensive, real‑world Cloud Formation 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…