Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Compute & Storage Section - Cloud Services Department (CLSD)

Job Description: Business Overview The Technology Platforms Division (TPD) drives the growth of Rakuten's ecosystem by delivering innovative, high-quality technology platforms characterized by integrated control and strategic partnerships. Within TPD, the Cloud Platform Supervisory Department (CPSD) develops and manages Rakuten's state-of-the-art cloud platform, empowering global scalability and accelerating innovation across its diverse business units. Department Overview The Cloud Services Department (CLSD) at Rakuten Group provides high-quality cloud infrastructure and platform services to application developers across Rakuten. Our mission is to enable secure, scalable, and efficient digital innovation. We deliver key domain services, including compute, storage, core infrastructure components, databases, container platform, observability, and gateway solutions, empowering Rakuten application teams to focus on their core business objectives. Position: Why We Hire Are you interested in building the next generation of internet services that will touch hundreds of millions of users worldwide every day? This is an excellent opportunity to join one of Rakuten's worldwide, large-scale, distributed fault-tolerant Cloud Infrastructure systems. You will join a diverse global team and play a central role in our technology innovations. Our mission is to build and maintain robust infrastructure and platform solutions that enable and empower Rakuten's businesses worldwide. The Virtual Machine Platform Group is looking for people who are passionate about working on a global scale as Cloud Infrastructure Engineers. To build out automation of critical service reliability and efficiency functions that ensure massively scaled, fault-tolerant, and globally distributed service for our end users. In collaboration with various departments, from platform to service levels, you will bring your expertise to the design of system architecture and build platforms that consider not only the application layer but also hardware, network, and middleware. Position Details - Design and deploy different clusters with large numbers of nodes, with consideration of running cost, redundancy, capacity, etc. - Verify and introduce new solutions to improve functionality and performance - Standardization and automation of service management - Monitor, troubleshoot and maintain critical production environments Mandatory Qualifications: - Strong Linux/Unix system administrator skills - Experience in VMware environment (ESXi, vCenter Server) - Experience in Nutanix environment (AHV, AOS) - Understanding of virtualization and cloud computing - Proficiency in one or more of the following: Python, Shell scripting - Experience in automation and configuration management using Chef, Ansible, and Terraform - Experience with CI/CD tools (ex. Jenkins, CircleCI) - Experience with monitoring and troubleshooting incidents Desired Qualifications: - Experience with cloud platforms (ex. OpenStack, AWS, Azure, GCP) - Experience and working knowledge of IP networking systems and protocols - Web application development experience - Scrum Master, Project Manager Experience - Experience in service operations with Docker, Kubernetes - Over 5 years of experience in managing one of the following products: MySQL, Cassandra, Oracle, Couchbase, Hadoop, or Kafka #engineer #infrastructureengineer #technologyplatformdiv Languages: English (Overall - 3 - Advanced), Japanese (Overall - 3 - Advanced) In Japanese, Rakuten stands for ‘optimism.’ It means we believe in the future. It’s an understanding that, with the right mind-set, we can make the future better by what we do today. So we challenge ourselves to evolve, innovate and experiment, to create a better, brighter future for everyone. Today, our 70+ businesses span e-commerce, digital content, communications and fintech, bringing the joy of discovery to almost 1.3 billion members across the world. If you have any trouble logging in, please contact us here Rakuten Group, Inc.: rakuten-recruiting-info@mail.rakuten.com Please read the Application Requirements(EN) / 募集要項(JP) before applying. Our Diversity & Inclusion Policy and Application Documents Rakuten’s corporate mission is to “contribute to society by creating value through innovation and entrepreneurship.” We foster a culture that provides equal opportunities to those who share this founding philosophy and take on the challenge to transform society, regardless of age, gender, nationality, or any other status. Diversity is one of Rakuten's core strategies and a driving force for innovation. Because of this, you are not required to submit any of the following information in order to apply for our job positions. - Gender - Age - Photo - Nationality - Information not related to business, such as ideological beliefs, family structure, etc. * For legal compliance, we may ask you about your work eligibility. See the details