Situated in the heart of Singapore's Central Business District, Rakuten Asia Pte. Ltd. is Rakuten's Asia Regional headquarters. Established in August 2012 as part of Rakuten's global expansion strategy, Rakuten Asia comprises various businesses that provide essential value-added services to Rakuten's global ecosystem. Through advertisement product development, product strategy, and data management, among others, Rakuten Asia is strengthening Rakuten Group's core competencies to take the lead in an increasingly digitalized world.
Rakuten Group, Inc. 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 1.7 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has nearly 32,000 employees and operations in 30 countries and regions. For more information visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/
Department Overview
The Global Ad Technology Department (GATD) manages the whole of the advertising systems that power Rakuten. We are a cross-functional and data-driven organization working together in a diverse team spread across five countries: Japan, Singapore, India, China and UK. GATD Website: https://corp.rakuten.co.jp/careers/feature/adtech/en/
The role has the responsibility of our online marketing platform development. As a DevOps Engineer in the team, you will be exposed to advertisement domain as well as DevOps technical knowledge. You will be building and maintaining systems that support marketing activities efficiently. First, you must understand business requirements to manage and deploy critical business systems. Second, you will also be automating regular operations and proposing new ideas to increase overall productivity.
Responsibilities:
- Work with service team to build & deploy application, manage complete infrastructure, understanding both business demand and available system assets.
- Involved in whole process of application life cycle: architecture, design, middleware selection, provision environments, installation, application release and production system operation, LCM and EOL activities.
- Understanding Rakuten infra and platforms and making sure monitoring and alerting are applied to all the components.
- In case of trouble, detecting root cause and recovering with team members proactively with ownership of service/system.
- Proposing new technologies, middle-wares, tools etc. to improve reliability, operation & maintenance of systems,
- Working closely with related teams in both Singapore and overseas, such as Japan, China and India, by showcasing efficient communication and building consensus among stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- Over 8 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 & GIT
- Experience in production automation using Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform 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.
Good to have Qualifications:
- Experience in cloud preferably GCP, able to understand VPC setup and resource provisioning using Terraform.
- Experience in trouble shooting JVM.
- Experience with databases like Couchbase, MongoDB, Redis, MySQL)
- Knowledge of online AD or marketing business and related technologies
Rakuten is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications regardless of sex, marital status, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief or age.
