Job Description

Career Opportunity for a Platform Engineer in Japan!

■ Platform Engineer 

■ Company Overview

A leading FinTech organization, cashless payments in Japan, offering innovative and convenient credit services integrated with a major digital payment platform. 

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

This role will be responsible for the engineering of Cloud Infrastructure Platforms to provide robust, reliable and cost-efficient Platform so that we can deliver the best experience for our growing customers base.

Main 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

Skills required:

●Python

●ShellScripting

●Go/ Rust (optional)

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications
●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

●Bilingual in English and Japanese is nice to have, but not required. Proficiency in either language is fine.

■ Good Reasons to Join

● Hybrid remote position within Japan

■ Work Location

Tokyo, Japan

Details will be provided during the meeting.