Jobs in Japan
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Jobs in Japan
Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
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RakutenThe Data Platform Department (DPD) at Rakuten Group develops and maintains a comprehensive data platform, empowering over 70 Rakuten services with solutions for data ingestion, discovery, governance, analytics, and querying. We support data-driven decision-making across one of Japan's largest data ecosystems, providing the tools and infrastructure to support key domains such as Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and Business Intelligence. We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to manage the end-to-end operations of our enterprise Databricks platform hosted on Azure and GCP. The role will focus on platform administration, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, security, incident management, and ensuring a secure, reliable, and highly available platform. Responsibilities include managing day-to-day operations of Azure and GCP Databricks environments; automating infrastructure provisioning and platform configuration using Terraform; building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for Databricks deployments; monitoring platform health, performance, availability, and costs; troubleshooting production issues, performing root cause analysis, and driving operational improvements; managing platform security, access controls, secrets, and audit logging; and collaborating with engineering, cloud, networking, and security teams to support platform operations.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience administering Azure Databricks in production environments - Strong knowledge of Unity Catalog, workspace administration, cluster policies, compute management, Jobs & Workflows, permissions, secret scopes, and audit logs - Experience managing multiple Databricks workspaces across development, test, and production environments - Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - Experience with cloud networking concepts including VNet/VPC, Private Link/Private Endpoints, firewall rules, DNS, VPN/Peering, and secure connectivity - Hands-on experience with Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure - Experience automating infrastructure deployment, configuration management, and environment standardization - Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins - Strong knowledge of Git, branching strategies, release management, and deployment automation - Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, GCP Cloud Monitoring, or similar tools - Strong experience in production support, incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and operational runbook creation - Experience implementing RBAC, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), IAM, service principals, managed identities, secret management, and audit logging - Good understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance requirements - Proficiency in Python and Bash (PowerShell is an advantage) - Experience developing automation scripts for operational and deployment tasks - Strong understanding of DevOps principles, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, GitOps, change management, and platform reliability engineering
- Experience managing multi-cloud Databricks platforms (Azure & GCP) - Knowledge of Delta Sharing, Delta Live Tables, Databricks Asset Bundles, and Lakehouse architecture - Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, or Datadog - Experience with cloud cost optimization (FinOps) - Azure, GCP, Databricks, or Terraform certifications - Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills - Experience supporting mission-critical production platforms - Excellent communication and documentation skills - Automation-first mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
