Platform Cloud Engineer Jobs

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Are you interested in working for a Global Leader in E-commerce? Are you excited about working on highly scalable platforms and applications that are accessed by millions of users every day? If so, read on to find out more about the opportunity.

Rakuten Symphony is a Rakuten Group company, providing global B2B services for the mobile telco industry and enabling next-generation, cloud-based, international mobile services. Building on the technology Rakuten used to launch Japan’s newest mobile network, we are taking our mobile offering global. To support our ambitions to provide an innovative cloudnative telco platform for our customers, Rakuten Symphony is looking to recruit and develop top talent from around the globe. We are looking for individuals to join our team across all functional areas of our business – from sales to engineering, support functions to product development. Let’s build the future of mobile telecommunications together!

About Rakuten Rakuten Group, Inc. (TSE: 4755) is a global leader in internet services that empower individuals, communities, businesses and society. Founded in Tokyo in 1997 as an online marketplace, Rakuten has expanded to offer services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications to approximately 1.5 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has over 27,000 employees, and operations in 30 countries and regions. For more information visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/.

Job Responsibilities:

• Participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle for building cloud native solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance.
• As a member of Rakuten Symphony Cloud Platform team, under the direction of lead architects, develop and implement technical efforts to design, build, and deploy the most optimal, modular cloud native applications, including fast path packet processing and computationally intensive vRAN workloads.
• Design, implement, deploy and debug customized Opensource K8s on a large number of Edge devices which enable hosting containerized 4G and 5G vRAN applications.
• Build and deploy containerized microservices applications on to multiple Kubernetes environments like Opensource K8s, Robin K8s, RHOCP, VMWare and AWS.
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design.
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures.
• Define, develop, document and maintain highly secure, scalable and available cloud solutions in accordance with best practices and strategies.
• Regularly review existing systems and make recommendations for improvements.
• Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills, with an ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
• Educate teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training and mentorship when necessary.

Job Requirement:

• Proven work experience as a Cloud Engineer or similar role with complete knowledge of one of the cloud platforms, such as Robin, RHOCP, AWS, Azure, GCP or Opensource K8s equivalent.
• Good to have:
• Relevant training and/or certifications as a Cloud Engineer
• Understands 3G/4G/5G RAN architecture.
• Three or more years of experience in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions based on the needs of the clients or the organization.
• Experience with CI/CD systems.
• Experience in Automating Infrastructure deployment, networking, and security services
• Collaborating with engineering and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions.
• Strong knowledge of Linux system programming, Algorithms, Data structures, Object-oriented programming, Design patterns, Networking and Cloud infrastructure concepts.
• Proficient in at least one programming language among C/C++, Python and Go.
• Has good understanding of the best practices to build cloud native applications.
• Knowledge of web services, API, REST, and RPC and concepts of the cloud architecture SaaS, IaaS and PaaS.

Education and Experience:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science or Software Technology or equivalent education.