Infrastructure Engineer - Tech Division
- Tokyo
- Partial Remote
- Full-time
- December 23, 2023
*Please notice there are 2 different positions below. Once applied, your application will be reviewed by several departments.
1.SRE Engineer
Position Details
- Virtual machine provisioning with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Rakuten private cloud based on requests coming from the above Internet service product teams. Provisioning includes network & middleware configurations.
- Enhance operational quality, standardization (tools and processes), and automation.
- Selection, verification, and introduction of new infrastructure environment and tools to be introduced into services.
- Automating releases while building, maintaining, and continuously improving the CI/CD pipeline.
- Build on-premises / cloud environment, construct service architectures, and automate.
- Promote SRE best practices and work with our team to securely implement an innovative approach to operations and services.
- Continuously improve alerts and monitoring to quickly detect and respond to service-impacting issues.
Mandatory Qualifications:
- Over 3 years experience as a SRE team member or leader.
- Basic experience of managing various types of Linux OS.
- Demonstrated experience with using Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Bitbucket, Github.
- Experience with Jenkins (recommended), BitBucket, or other CI tools.
- Any experience with monitoring technologies such as ELK, PagerDuty, Grafana, Prometheus.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with scripting languages (Python, PHP, Ruby, Shell).
- Any experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.
- Basic experience of Docker, Kubernetes, and other containerized platform technologies.
2.Network Engineer
Hiring Criteria
- Flexibility: Not looking for architects or administrator. We want someone who can play several roles.
- Experience: What kind of technologies you have used and what kind of roles you have played before.
- Passion: Constantly looking for a better solution. 100% is not your goal. Always aiming for 120%!
- Curiosity: Need to be curious and sensitive on what is happening in IT field.
- Sociability: We work as a team and communication skill is a must!
Mandatory Qualifications
- Full technical knowledge, configure and implementation of Dynamic Routing Protocol OSPF/BGP/MPLS/VXLAN/SRv6 in backbone networking and data center networking
- Full technical knowledge, configure and implementation of Layer 2 technology such as TRILL and Multi-Chassis Link-Aggregation
- Understand basic knowledge of Firewall, Load Balancer and DNS architecture and technologies
- Work experience in DevOps environment with Ansible/Jenkins/Git
- Not only network admin related role, but also appx. 5 years operation experience and good at troubleshooting in Linux/Unix Operation System
- Proactive mindset with a self-starter attitude in finding and identifying possible network issues and coming up with proposals for resolution
- Quick learner in new technologies and upcoming trends
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineer or similar
- Experience of Network Management by utilizing open source software programming
- Experience of development and implement Automation scripts in one or more of the following: Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash and other programming language
- Experience of Linux/Unix server development and administration
- Basic knowledge and have deployment experience of public cloud(AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Ability to work in an international oriented environment interacting with global team members in all over the world
- A DevOps and Agile mindset when deploying and creating tools
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