Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

A rapidly growing FinTech company in Japan is building innovative digital financial services that make investing and asset management more accessible through mobile-first technology.

The company is expanding its engineering organization and looking for talented engineers who are passionate about designing secure scalable cloud infrastructure and creating products that have a meaningful impact on users daily lives.

The engineering organization is expanding its global team to build the next generation of cloud-based financial services.

As a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer you will collaborate closely with software engineers security engineers QA engineers and product teams to design build and operate highly available cloud infrastructure supporting business-critical applications.

This role provides an opportunity to become a key member of a growing engineering organization and contribute to building modern cloud platforms from the ground up.

Please note: This position is open to candidates currently residing in Japan.

• Build and improve a growing engineering organization and cloud environment
• Work on large-scale infrastructure supporting millions of users
• Collaborate with talented engineers across different teams
• Influence architecture and technical decisions
• Gain experience with modern cloud technologies in the fintech industry
• Flexible hybrid working environment

• Design and build robust scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure
• Develop infrastructure that enables smooth maintenance patching and upgrades with minimal downtime
• Design AWS infrastructure with regional-level fault tolerance
• Collaborate with security teams to build secure infrastructure
• Automate AWS deployments to enable faster delivery of cloud services
• Create self-service solutions that allow developers to easily provision AWS resources
• Improve infrastructure reliability scalability and operational efficiency

• 5 years of experience designing and building AWS-based infrastructure solutions
• Experience managing production infrastructure for high-traffic and business-critical systems
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance standards
• Experience with production incident management and cross-functional collaboration
• Hands-on experience with AWS Compute Storage and Analytics services
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
• Experience with Linux system administration
• Experience with cloud monitoring detection and response
• Experience with cloud infrastructure patching and upgrades
• Excellent written verbal and interpersonal communication skills
• Business-level English or Japanese (Native Japanese or JLPT N1 equivalent)

• Experience maintaining 200 servers or containers in a production cloud environment
• Experience with disaster recovery planning and improving RTO/RPO
• Experience with other cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform
• Experience with cloud performance tuning and cost optimization
• Experience using or contributing to open-source tools
• Experience publishing technical articles blogs or papers
• Experience managing IT compliance and security risks
• Experience designing and building infrastructure in financial services or regulated industries
• Experience operating in-house products and services

Employment Status

• Full-time

Location

• Japan (Hybrid work style: Remote Office)

Working Hours

• Super Flex Time (No Core Hours)
• Standard working hours: 9:00 AM 5:45 PM (7 hours 45 minutes 1-hour break)

Holidays

• Saturdays Sundays and Japanese National Holidays
• Summer Leave
• Year-end and New Year Holidays
• Annual Paid Leave

Salary

• Annual salary based on skills experience and performance
• Annual salary review
• Overtime allowance
• Transportation expenses
• Work-style support allowance

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Employee Pension
• Employment Insurance
• Workers Compensation Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan