Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer, Fictiv

• Based in Oakland, CA / greater Bay Area, with the ability to work onsite as required
• 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

Desirable

• MISUMI Americas builds the digital infrastructure behind how the world's hardware gets designed and manufactured
• We're looking for a Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer to take ownership of the AWS infrastructure that runs our multi-regional, global platform — someone who wants to be hands-on with CloudFormation and Node.js every day, not just architecting on a whiteboard
• This is a builder's role. You'll lead infrastructure projects end to end — architecture, implementation, debugging, optimization — while writing the Node.js tools and services that keep deployment, monitoring, and platform operations running smoothly
• You'll work closely with engineering, security, and product teams to keep our systems reliable, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient as we grow
• 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)