Infra/Security

Location Tokyo
Discipline Information Technology
Job type Permanent
Salary
Reference 54377

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.