Job Description

**Please note that If you are out side of Japan, you will need to relocate to Japan**

 

■ Company Overview

Our client is the leading fintech company in Japan and right now they are rapidly expanding their product line up and platform capabilities! This role will work with one of their newest products, building new features and services of unparalleled excellence for their expanding customer base. 

 

If you are interested in being part of a team building services not previously available to users in the market, or creatively revolutionizing and modernizing outdated services, then this could be the opportunity for you! If you are passionate about building fantastic products and working with a like-minded global team at a very fast pace, then we would like to talk to you!

 

Please read on for further details and send us your expression of interest to learn more!

 

■ Position Overview 

We are looking for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Engineers for our client’s cloud system. You will be responsible for the engineering of cloud infrastructure platforms to provide a robust, reliable and cost-efficient platform, ensuring the best experience can be delivered to the growing customer base.

 

You need to be versatile and enthusiastic to take on new challenges in order to stay at the forefront, and strive for continuous improvement. Additionally, you value communication, to smoothly cooperate with other teams, and inclusivity, to efficiently navigate in a multicultural environment. If this is still sounding like you, keep reading!

■ 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

The current tech stack is below, though with a solid tech culture, new technologies may be introduced as  they become available.

 

• 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 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

• 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 Linux Internals and System Administration

• 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

• 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 using and contributing to Open Source tools

• 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

• JLPT N3 or above

 

■ Other Points and Working Conditions

• This is a full-time position

• If you are not currently a resident of Japan, you must relocate to Japan, but you can live anywhere in Japan and work fully remotely if you wish

• Super flex working hours 

• Holidays: Weekends, Japanese national holidays, New Year's holidays and special company holidays

• Leave allowance: annual paid leave and other forms of paid leave

• Non-salary benefits: Japanese social insurances, Japanese 401K, language learning support, visa sponsorship, relocation support

 

■ Work Location

Of course there are offices, but you can live anywhere in Japan you like and work fully remotely if that's your vibe!

■ Salary 

￥7,000,000 - ￥12,000,000 (Japanese Yen, per annum)

** Salary review is twice yearly, and bonuses are paid twice yearly according to both company and individual performance. **

** Please note that any potential offer is subject to candidate experience and qualifications, as evaluated in the company's comprehensive and fair interview process. **

 

■ So What are the Next Steps?

If you're interested in this role, click 'I'm interested'.

If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

Please note that due to the large number of applicants, only successful candidates will be contacted.