Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer (Oakland Office)
Fictiv
Fictiv Exists to Enable Hardware Innovators to Build Better Products, Faster
Fictiv exists to help product innovators create.
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.
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!
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.
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.