Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer (Oakland Office)

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About MISUMI Americas</strong></p> <p>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.</p></div><p> </p> <p><strong>Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer</strong></p> <p><strong>Location: Oakland, CA (Onsite / Local Candidates Required)</strong><br><strong>Salary Range: $180,000 – $220,000 USD (base salary)</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Impact in This Role</strong></p> <p>Fictiv is seeking a <strong>Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer</strong> with <strong>10+ years of experience</strong> designing, building, and operating production-grade cloud infrastructure at scale. This is a <strong>hands-on, highly technical role</strong>—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.</p> <p>This role requires <strong>deep, practical expertise in AWS</strong>, with a strong emphasis on <strong>CloudFormation</strong>, as well as <strong>extensive hands-on Node.js development experience</strong> 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.</p> <p><strong>This position is based in Oakland, CA. Candidates must be located in the Oakland / greater Bay Area and able to work onsite as required.</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Areas of Responsibility</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, build, and maintain <strong>AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation as the primary Infrastructure-as-Code tool</strong></li> <li>Own and evolve AWS environments to support high availability, scalability, failover, and security</li> <li>Lead infrastructure projects from planning through execution, mentoring and guiding a small team</li> <li>Build and maintain <strong>Node.js–based tools and services</strong> for automation, deployment workflows, monitoring, and platform operations</li> <li>Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastr