Job Description:

Rakuten International is a division of Rakuten Group, Inc., a Japanese global technology leader in services that empower individuals, communities, businesses and society. Headquartered in San Mateo, California with more than 4,000 employees worldwide, the Rakuten International business portfolio includes market leaders in e-commerce, digital marketing, advertising, communications and entertainment. We create products and services that provide exceptional value by aligning members and the businesses that want to engage them in a shared community.

JOB SUMMARY:

This opportunity is part of our Cloud Infrastructure team. The responsibilities of this team include all cloud infrastructure operations, implementations, and service-oriented infrastructure strategies. The team supports the production cloud infrastructure, compute, data storage, and network connectivity for on-prem data centers and public clouds via our global backbone. You'll be contributing to a wide range of projects ranging from automation, monitoring / telemetry, security auditing / governance and cloud platform infrastructure management services.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Day to day administration of various cloud and infrastructure technologies including Linux (Ubuntu, Centos, KVM), Networking (Cisco, Juniper, Cumulus, Citrix) and cloud platforms AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, k8s
Work with senior staff to perform updates and upgrades of the Rakuten cloud infrastructure systems, networks, platforms (e.g., release, update/patch, version control, inventory assessment)
Collaborate with senior staff to build a new developer platform service that offers resources on both private and public cloud infrastructure
Contribute to cloud infrastructure automation (Networking and/or Linux) and help with the improvements related to CI/CD (Jenkins, Git workflow)
Work collaboratively with the offshore operations team and contribute to in-house documentation and tools to support their daily troubleshooting
Participate in efforts to design, develop, and maintain the infrastructure management systems on multiple cloud platforms

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Academic understanding of cloud / infrastructure with previous hands-on experience working on servers, networks or DevOps tools (personal, school or professional projects)
Familiarity with public cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure or GCP, and container technologies, such as Kubernetes, AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Docker and Nomad
Experience writing Python scripts
Strong written and verbal communication skills required
Strong analytical, quantitative, problem solving, and conceptual skills required
Must be detail oriented and able to prioritize tasks to meet deadlines
Must be able to work independently and in a team

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in information technology, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field
Relevant prior internship experience (preferred)

Five Principles for Success

Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviors that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.

Always improve, Always Advance - Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen

Passionately Professional - Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best

Hypothesize - Practice - Validate – Shikumika - Use the Rakuten Cycle to succeed in unknown territory

Maximize Customer Satisfaction - The greatest satisfaction for our teams is seeing their customers smile

Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! - Always be conscious of time - take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team

Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the base compensation for this role to be within the range shown below. Individual compensation will vary based on job-related factors, including the skills, qualifications, and experience of the successful candidate as well as business need and geographic location. The successful applicant for this role will be eligible for discretionary bonus, health, vision, dental insurance, 401k matching, PTO, Volunteer Time Off (VTO), and other employee benefits as the company implements.

USD $79,200.00 - $133,540.00 annually

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