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# Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer

- **Company:** Fictiv Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Systems Engineering, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Linux, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, Node.Js, Reliability Engineering, Software Deployment, Data Logging, Delivery Pipeline, Database Optimization, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Containerization, Functional Programming, Cloud Optimization, Cloudwatch, Elastic Beanstalk
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0a6c851d7a700b6b

## About the Role

* U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder), * 10+ years in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Systems Engineering
 * 5+ years of hands-on, production experience writing Node.js code - building services, automation, or internal tools, not just deploying Node.js applications
 * Expert-level, hands-on AWS experience across EC2, Lambda, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, CodeBuild, and Elastic Beanstalk
 * Extensive, real-world CloudFormation experience: authoring and maintaining complex templates, managing stacks across multiple environments, and handling updates, rollbacks, drift detection, and full stack lifecycle management
 * Strong track record designing and operating CI/CD pipelines
 * Hands-on experience debugging systems and applications in production
 * Experience with database performance tuning and optimization
 * Solid grasp 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 in fast-growing or high-scale engineering organizations

## Description

* Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation as our primary Infrastructure-as-Code tool
 * Own and evolve our AWS environments for 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 across our 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 that improve performance, reliability, security posture, and cloud cost efficiency
 * Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, security, and operations
 * Maintain clear documentation of infrastructure, automation, and operational processes
 * Contribute to and uphold MISUMI Americas' Quality Management System (QMS), * Based in Oakland, CA / greater Bay Area, with the ability to work onsite as required


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