Oakland Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer - AWS & Node.js

Fictiv; Oakland, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

401(k) Plan

Parental Leave

Job summary

MISUMI Americas is seeking a Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer to own our AWS infrastructure across multi-regional platforms. You will be hands-on with CloudFormation and Node.js daily, lead end-to-end infrastructure projects, and mentor a small team while partnering with security and product teams to keep systems reliable, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient as we grow.

This onsite Oakland role requires being based in the Bay Area, and you will design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines,

Qualifications

• 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
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• 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)

Skills

DevOps

Cloud Infrastructure

Site Reliability Engineering

Systems Engineering

Tools

Node.js

CloudFormation

AWS

Job description

MISUMI Americas is seeking a Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer to own our AWS infrastructure across multi-regional platforms. You will be hands-on with CloudFormation and Node.js daily, lead end-to-end infrastructure projects, and mentor a small team while partnering with security and product teams to keep systems reliable, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient as we grow.

This onsite Oakland role requires being based in the Bay Area, and you will design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines,