Fictiv Hiring for Senior DevOps Engineer at Pune, Maharashtra Full Time

Fictiv, coined the “AWS of manufacturing,” is a leading technology company transforming the $350 billion manufacturing industry. Our cutting-edge cloud platform uses AI and machine learning algorithms to help companies build hardware at the speed of software. Come join our growing team!

What’s in it for you?

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Opportunity To Unlock Your Creativity

Think of all the times you were held back from trying new ideas because you were boxed in by bureaucratic legacy processes or old school tactics. Having a growth mindset is deeply ingrained into our company culture since day 1 so Fictiv is an environment where you have the creative liberty and support of the team to try big bold ideas to achieve our sales and customer goals.

Opportunity To Grow Your Career

There are plenty of sales jobs out there. The question is whether any of them will help you grow in your career? Will you be challenged by teammates to achieve your potential? Or are they roles that will ask you to do more of what you’ve already mastered. At Fictiv, you’ll be surrounded by supportive teammates who will push you to be your best through their curiosity and passion.

Impact in this Role

Fictiv is a fast growing start-up based in San-Francisco, California – it was founded in 2013 and is revolutionising the $13 trillion manufacturing industry with a cloud-based, AI-powered platform that simplifies and accelerates the entire product development cycle, from digital prototype to hardware production. The Fictiv Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem pairs intelligent workflow and collaboration software with a global network of highly vetted manufacturers. Fictiv’s combination of an easy-to-use cloud platform; design, quoting, billing and logistics systems; and an intelligent orchestration engine that manages our manufacturing partner network helps deliver high-quality mechanical parts at unprecedented speeds. At a time when manufacturing has become more global but remains rooted in outdated and time-intensive processes, Fictiv’s modern approach has proven to be a disruptive force in hardware manufacturing. Embraced as a trusted partner, Fictiv is transforming the way in which Silicon Valley innovators in electric and autonomous automobiles, medical robotics and consumer electronics deliver the next generation of products.

Fictiv is expanding it’s engineering team in Pune, India – we’re looking for talented engineers to join us in building a highly available, performant system that scales globally with our fast-growing business.

Our software platform is at the core of what we do at Fictiv. Through software, we are building the future of manufacturing―supporting engineers, designers, and fabricators in some of the most cutting-edge industries on the planet. Our customers design and build things like autonomous cars, spaceships, and surgical robots.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you are the foundational support for our platform. Not only do you operationalise and support the systems which run our Platform, but you anticipate and architect these systems for cost and scale.

What You’ll Be Doing

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Leverage automation to scale Fictiv’s infrastructure as we grow into a multi-regional global company

Bring best practices to the team around incident management, traceability, observability, and system security.

Evaluate and implement tools to improve efficiency, reliability, and security.

Review architecture and designs to improve operational visibility and maintainability.

Build and operationalise systems in AWS, including standardising images, enforcing security protocols, provisioning of environments, and creating monitoring for critical systems.

Debug system failures at the operational level, including disk space, performance problems, and capacity / load limits.

Act as technical expert on system operations. Be willing to pitch in and advise teams on specific problems, but also teach and share knowledge with engineers on operational best practices to increase leverage within the organisation.

Recommend operational procedures for team adoption.

Evaluate tools for tracing, monitoring, observing, managing, and deploying systems.

Enable development teams to integrate automation, maintainability, and observability into their systems.

Desired traits

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Experienced engineer with the ability to be hands-on, both in building infrastructure and debugging systems. Comfortable with designing and scaling event-driven systems.

Engages with colleagues to promote best practices on reliability, incident response, and security. Understands how to enact changes through influence as well as authority.

Available for shared on-call responsibility with other engineers (including developers) to meet SLA requirements for uptime.

Highly independent self-starter

Collaborative and team-oriented

Technical Skills

Must have had 2-3 years of direct AWS Cloud infrastructure experience. Specifically CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, Lambda, IAM, EC2, RDS.

Must have had 5 years of direct operational experience. Specifically, scripting in sh / bash and Python and scaling out systems.

2-3 years experience managing and scaling out systems with Docker and Kubernetes

1-2 years experience in creating and managing CI/CD pipelines.

About Fictiv

Our Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem is transforming how the next rockets, self-driving cars, and life-saving robots are designed, developed and delivered to customers around the world.

This transformation is made possible through our technology-backed platform, our global network of manufacturing partners, and our people with deep expertise in hardware and software development.

We’re actively seeking potential teammates who can bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company. We believe inclusion is the best way to create a strong, empathetic team. Our belief is that the best team is born from an environment that emphasizes respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.

We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.