Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer

Join MISUMI Americas, a company that builds the digital infrastructure for hardware design and manufacturing. As a Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer, you will take ownership of the AWS infrastructure that runs our global platform. This hands-on role involves leading infrastructure projects, building and maintaining Node.js tools and services, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will also have the opportunity to work remotely and enjoy various benefits, including a monthly work stipend, paid volunteer days, and equity options.

• Conception, construction and maintenance of AWS infrastructure using CloudFormation as the primary Infrastructure-as-Code tool.
• Leadership of infrastructure projects from planning through execution, mentoring and guiding a small team.
• Collaboration with engineering, security, and product teams to ensure systems are reliable, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient.

• U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder)
• Based in Oakland, CA / greater Bay Area, with the ability to work onsite as required
• Strong track record designing and operating CI/CD pipelines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• 10+ years in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Systems Engineering
• Expert-level, hands-on AWS experience across EC2, Lambda, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, CodeBuild, and Elastic Beanstalk
• Strong Linux systems experience
• Experience with database performance tuning and optimization
• Hands-on experience debugging systems and applications in production
• 5+ years of hands-on, production experience writing Node.js code — building services, automation, or internal tools, not just deploying Node.js applications
• Solid grasp of AWS security best practices — IAM, networking, encryption, least-privilege access
• 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
• 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 in fast-growing or high-scale engineering organizations