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.
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
Fictiv is transforming how the next rockets, self-driving cars, and life-saving robots are designed, developed, and delivered to customers around the world. People who succeed at Fictiv are talented, creative, and driven to achieve professional excellence and support our vision to help product innovators create.
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.
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!
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