Responsibilities:

• Involve in whole process of Development, Production System Operation including system maintenance, monitoring, automation, backend operation, ensuring high availability, regular application release, troubleshooting, middleware performance tuning and collaborate with functional , technical team members to provide high quality services.
• Involve in automation of routine manual production/non-production operation using technologies like Ansible, Docker etc. Will be the key person to propose, implement automation to increase productivity with High Quality.
• Always improve the system performance, stability to provide 100% availability.
• Should have service ownership mind & proactively able to react to the production issues.
• Propose new technologies, tools etc to improve whole process of development, testing and production operations. Strong self-learning ability, motivation to work on new Technologies.
• Work closely with developers, product manager, project manager, team lead, security and QA team members in different location (Singapore, Japan, India etc).

Qualifications:

• Must-have
  • Over 5 years of experience on DevOps, handling high traffic production system independently, troubleshooting (middleware, infra etc), automation, regular operation etc. Hands on with the large and scalable system.
  • Good knowledge in CICD pipeline using tools such as Jenkins/Bamboo and VCS such as GIT/SVN
  • Experience in production automation using Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible etc. Should have real experience in implementation of automation using industry standard best practice, safety.
  • Strong knowledge in LINUX based system operation and extensive skills in Linux commands.
  • Strong scripting knowledge like Perl, shell, Python, etc.
  • Good knowledge in System, application monitoring and alert notification.
  • Understanding of web application and related specification (security, HTTP protocol, RFC, etc)
  • Identify process gaps and recommend on best practices based on industry standards.
  • Provide technical expertise on complex automation and functional issues.
  • Flexible for emergency support timing based on the business requirement. Must adapt to business needs in terms of working hours.
  • Non-Business hour emergency support for critical issues.

 

• Nice-to-have
  • System development experience in PHP, Java etc.
  • Experience in Microsoft Azure
  • Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL, text mining
  • Team management experience

 

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or IT related field.

 

Expectations:

• Good adoption to Rakuten’s corporate culture, Get-Things-Done mind, Ownership mindset.
• Love and devote yourself in our service and system.
• Positive attitude and strong desire to learn from and share with colleagues.

Rakuten Group, Inc. (TSE's first section: 4755) is the largest ecommerce company in Japan, and third largest ecommerce marketplace company worldwide. Rakuten provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports. The company is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas. Founded in 1997, Rakuten is headquartered in Tokyo, with over 17,000 employees and partner staff worldwide. Rakuten's 2018 revenues were 1101.48 billions yen. 　 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, happier future for everyone. 　 Today, our 70+ businesses span e-commerce, digital content, communications and FinTech, bringing the joy of discovery to more than 1.5 billion members across the world.

Scope:

Successful candidate will be assigned to Marketing Platform Section’s development unit which develops Rakuten’s marketing systems and other e-commerce related services. These services are used by Rakuten’s business units.

 

Team’s overall mission is to boost-up each business unit’s revenue by standardizing operations, maximizing productivity and providing high quality service to our internal customers.

 

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing critical business systems, automating regular operations and proposing new ideas to increase overall productivity.

• DevOps Engineer