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Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Description

Join our world-class cloud operations team working on our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and devops tooling!

  • Investigate new technologies and lead the adoption of new tools and processes for infrastructure automation, operation, and monitoring

  • Take charge of the overall strategy and planning for our cloud infrastructure architecture (Google Cloud)

  • Improve and expand our metrics collection and aggregation infrastructure, alerting, and visualization dashboards

  • Provide expert assistance in responding to issues and alerts together with SRE team members and work together with our customer success team on supporting our customers

  • Lead, teach, and help more junior members of the cloud operations team with SRE, DevOps, and support tasks

This is a senior position that requires work experience with Kubernetes in production. A successful candidate is expected to have at least 10 years of experience with cloud technologies and be able to create and present architectural diagrams as well as plan and execute strategic infrastructure changes. This role can be synergistically combined with the Cloud Operations Team Lead position, depending on your skills and experience.

Work on implementing our operations roadmap with focus on automation and metrics. Be part of the on-call support escalation ladder and handle alerts to ensure the high degree of availability and reliability that our customers expect.

Manage, implement, and support internal systems such as public and internal websites, GitLab, Redmine, PubSub/Functions/BigQuery setups, and developer environments. Work with development team members on devops issues and deployments etc. Work with bizdev, customer success, sales, and other Authlete members on resolving issues with internal and external systems.

You must speak English or Japanese well, and proficiency in both is a plus, as well as proficiency in other languages. Reading and writing in English is required for this position.

Key technologies

Kubernetes (GKE), Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, GCE, containers, Go (infrastructure programming), Java (server development), Ruby (dev scripts), Prometheus, Grafana, AWS, CloudSQL, Spanner, Postgres, RDS, Java, Docker, OAuth 2, OpenID Connect, Slack bots, GitLab.

About Authlete

We provide a backend for implementing OAuth 2, OpenID Connect, Financial-grade API, Open Banking and related standards. Our services are widely used globally by customers in a wide range of industries such as fintech, banking, entertainment, healthcare, travel, and media.

Employment and working conditions

Our work style is flexible; you will be entrusted with responsibility for your work and managing your time. Full remote or hybrid is possible. Full-time permanent or contract, or part-time is negotiable. We have offices in Palo Alto, Tokyo, and Dubai, and team members all over the world with a wide variety of backgrounds.

We have an office at Finolab (fintech startup center) in Otemachi (near Tokyo Station) where you can hang out with co-workers and join events. We accept candidates from outside Japan who can work remotely and have experience in managing their own time, such as freelancing. We are open to discussing supporting visa application and moving to Japan for members who have worked with us remotely first.