Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer, Fictiv

• Fictiv is seeking a Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production-grade cloud infrastructure at scale
• 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
• Must be located in the Oakland, CA / greater Bay Area
• Ability to work onsite as required
• 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

Desirable

• 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
• You will partner closely with engineering, security, and product teams to ensure reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency across our cloud infrastructure
• 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)