Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer

About This Role

This Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer will design, build, and operate production-grade cloud infrastructure. The role involves leading infrastructure initiatives from architecture to optimization, supporting a growing, multi-regional global platform.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• Must be located in the Oakland, CA / greater Bay Area
• Ability to work onsite as required
• U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder)
• 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
• Expert-level, hands-on AWS experience (EC2, Lambda, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, CodeBuild, Elastic Beanstalk)
• Extensive, real-world CloudFormation experience (authoring, maintaining complex templates, managing stacks, handling updates, rollbacks, drift detection, 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

Qualifications

• 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

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 working in fast-growing or high-scale engineering organizations

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits