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