Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer
Fictiv11 months ago
Oakland, CA, United States
Remote
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)
Job Description
Position Overview
Fictiv, a global manufacturing and supply chain company with centers in India, Mexico, China, and the U.S., empowers hardware innovators to build better products, faster. They are seeking a highly skilled Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer to build, maintain, and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will drive projects from planning through execution, ensuring high availability, scalability, failover, and security in a fast‐paced, global environment. Applicants from eligible US states and a compensation of $180,000 to $220,000 per year are welcome.
Key Responsibilities
- Leverage automation to scale Fictiv’s infrastructure as the company expands globally.
- Plan and execute projects by leading small teams through the PDLC.
- Act as the subject matter expert to accelerate projects and unblock challenges.
- Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS services.
- Build tools for deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting within an AWS environment.
- Perform infrastructure upgrades and updates to maximize efficiency while minimizing downtime.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize the DevOps lifecycle and enforce best practices.
- Drive initiatives to enhance scalability, performance, security, and cost-efficiency.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in production environments.
- Maintain documentation for infrastructure, automation scripts, and operational processes.
- Set up, manage, and maintain logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions.
- Ensure adherence to the QMS by all employees.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Systems Engineering.
- 5+ years of experience writing code with Python, NodeJS, and shell.
- Expert-level knowledge of AWS services including EC2, Lambda, CloudFormation, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, VPC, CodeBuild, Elastic Beanstalk, and RDS.
- Strong hands-on experience with IaC tools such as CloudFormation, ECS, ECR, EKS, and CDK.
- Experience in building CI/CD pipelines and using profiling/debugging tools.
- Database performance and optimization expertise.
- Strong understanding of AWS security best practices.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools and techniques.
- Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing teams.
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401K plan
- Monthly Virtual Work stipend for food, internet, travel, pet care, health and wellness
- Annual Education stipend
- Parental leave programs
- Paid volunteer days
- Onboarding setup including a standing desk, laptop, monitor, chair, and a stipend for additional ergonomic supplies
- And much, much more!
Required Skills
Debugging and coding (Python, NodeJS, Shell scripting)
Cloud infrastructure design and management
Security best practices in cloud environments
Project planning and team leadership
Automation and orchestration
CI/CD pipeline development
Monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting
AWS (EC2, Lambda, CloudFormation, IAM, CloudWatch, S3, VPC, RDS, etc.)
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (CloudFormation, CDK, ECS, ECR, EKS)
Linux based systems