Job Title: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Company: Global Technology Platform Provider
Division: Technology Platforms
Location: Japan
Business Overview
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The Technology Platforms Division leads ecosystem growth by delivering advanced, high-quality technology platforms through integrated governance and strategic collaboration.
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Within this division, the Cloud Platform Supervisory Department develops and manages a large-scale, next-generation cloud platform that supports global expansion and drives innovation across multiple business units.
Department Overview
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The Cloud Services Department provides secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure and platform services to internal application development teams.
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The department delivers essential cloud capabilities including compute, storage, core infrastructure, databases, container platforms, observability tools, and gateway services.
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The mission is to enable efficient digital innovation by allowing application teams to focus on business value.
Position Overview
Why the Role Exists
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Opportunity to work on next-generation large-scale, globally distributed cloud infrastructure servicing hundreds of millions of users.
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Join a diverse international engineering team and play a key role in building fault-tolerant, high-performance cloud systems.
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Contribute to the design, automation, and operational excellence of infrastructure that powers global digital services.
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The team seeks engineers passionate about large-scale cloud platforms and automation of mission-critical service reliability functions.
Role Purpose
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Build and maintain resilient infrastructure and platform solutions supporting worldwide business operations.
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Collaborate across platform, network, service, and application teams to design systems that incorporate hardware, network, middleware, and compute considerations.
Key Responsibilities
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Design and deploy large, multi-node clusters with focus on cost efficiency, redundancy, scalability, and capacity planning.
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Evaluate, test, and introduce new technologies to improve performance and functionality.
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Standardize and automate service management processes.
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Monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain mission-critical production environments.
Required Qualifications
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Strong Linux/Unix administration skills.
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Experience working with VMware environments (ESXi, vCenter Server).
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Experience with Nutanix environments (AHV, AOS).
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Solid understanding of virtualization and cloud computing.
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Proficiency in Python and/or Shell scripting.
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Experience using automation and configuration management tools (Chef, Ansible, Terraform).
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Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI).
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Experience in production monitoring and incident troubleshooting.
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience with cloud platforms such as OpenStack, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
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Knowledge of IP networking systems and protocols.
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Experience in web application development.
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Experience as a Scrum Master or Project Manager.
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Experience operating services using Docker or Kubernetes.
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5+ years of experience managing at least one of the following: MySQL, Cassandra, Oracle, Couchbase, Hadoop, or Kafka.