Job Description

Career Opportunity for a Platform Engineer in Japan! 

■ Platform Engineer  

■ Company Overview

  A leading digital payments and fintech company in Japan, focused on transforming cashless transactions through a widely used mobile payment platform. It offers convenient financial services for consumers and merchants, with strong market presence, rapid innovation, and continuous expansion across the Japanese digital economy  

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

● Architect and build a robust, scalable and stable infrastructure
● Architect and build Infrastructure that is easily maintainable during patching and upgrades
● Architect and build Infrastructure with AWS regional level failure tolerance
● Work together with our Security Engineers to provision a secure Infrastructure
● Automations for AWS Deployments to ensure fast delivery of Cloud Services to our developers
● Provide through Automations means for developers to easily deploy resources on AWS.

Tech Stack
AWS: VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, Cloudfront, MWAA, RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, Opensearch, S3, CloudWatch, Cognito, SQS, KMS, Secret Manager, KMS, MSK, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, CloudFormation and other services Terraform, Github Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Atlantis, ArgoCD, OpenTelemetry 

■ Experience and Qualifications

● More than 5 years of technical experience in Cloud based Infrastructure Platform
● Ability to demonstrate high degree of ownership in a Production environment
● Good understanding of Cloud security best practices and payment industry compliance standards
● Expertise in designing, building and troubleshooting large-scale streaming and distributed systems using Kafka.
● Expertise in building robust platforms based on NoSQL/KVS datastores like DynamoDB, Opensearch/ Elasticsearch and Redis.
● Experience in Cloud infrastructure and platform systems availability, performance and cost management
● Extensive technical hands-on experience of Computing, Storage and Analytical Services on Cloud(AWS)
● Experience with IAC tools in AWS such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK
● Experience with Cloud Services Monitoring, Detection and Response
● Experience in Cloud Services Performance Tuning, cost controls and management
● Experience in Cloud Infrastructure Service patching and upgrades DevOps emphasizes automation.
● Demonstrated skill with the following are required: Python ShellScripting Go/ Rust (optional)
● Have excellent oral, written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills. 

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
● Bachelor’s degree and above in a technology related field
● Experience with other cloud service providers (e.g GCP, Azure)
● Experience with Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD or CKS) Experience with Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka preferred)
● Experience using and contributing to Open Source tools
● Experience in managing IT compliance and security risk
● Published papers / blogs / articles - Relevant and verifiable certifications
● Bilingual in English and Japanese is nice to have, but not required. Proficiency in either language is fine

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Remote/Hybrid position in Japan

● Work with International team members
●Full Flex Time (No Core Time) In principle, 9:00am ~ 5:45pm (actual working hours: 7h45m + 1h break)  

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan
You can live anywhere in Japan

Details will be provided during the meeting.