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DevOpsエンジニア/ DevOps Engineer

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A technology company is looking for a DevOps Engineer. The chosen applicant will drive system reliability and operational improvements through development, automation, monitoring, and incident management.

Responsibilities:

  • Perform minor development tasks such as adding features and fixing bugs
  • Research EOL status for middleware, libraries, and operating systems, and handle planned version upgrades
  • Implement adaptive maintenance to accommodate changes in the external environment, such as cloud service specifications and API deprecation
  • Implement preventive maintenance to prevent outages and address technical debt through refactoring, redundancy improvements, and configuration reviews
  • Identify operational challenges and plan, coordinate, and drive improvement initiatives as projects
  • Plan and execute operational optimisation initiatives, including automation, process standardisation, and cost reduction
  • Streamline development and operations processes using AI tools such as code generation and document automation
  • Share AI utilisation knowledge within the team and establish best practices
  • Design, improve, and promote the automation of CI/CD pipelines
  • Build and improve monitoring infrastructure using Grafana
  • Design SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and lead incident response and post-mortems

Requirements:

  • More than 2 years of practical experience
  • Basic knowledge of Linux/Unix systems
  • Experience in building and operating cloud services
  • Experience with version control and team development using Git
  • Experience in server-side development using Java
  • Basic knowledge of RDBMS and practical experience writing SQL
  • Experience reading, modifying, and debugging existing codebases (language not specified)
  • Experience creating unit tests and integration tests
  • Experience operating container environments using Docker/Kubernetes
  • Experience designing, building, and improving CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience in reading, modifying, and debugging existing codebases (language agnostic)
  • Experience in creating unit and integration tests
  • Experience operating container environments using Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience designing, building, and improving CI/CD pipelines
  • Fluent level Japanese; intermediate level English

Preferred Requirements:

  • Experience in designing and operating microservice architecture
  • SRE mindset and practical experience in designing SLIs/SLOs
  • Proven track record in cloud cost optimisation
  • Experience in incident response and participating in on-call rotations

About the Company:

The company is a technology leader operating across e-commerce, financial services, digital content, logistics, and communications. Its AI division is driving the transformation of customer service through advanced generative AI solutions deployed across multiple business units.

Keywords:

テクノロジー, 開発者, エンジニア, IT

Job Ref: OVL0WI

Contract Type: Perm

Specialism: Information Technology

Focus: Development

Industry: New Media and Internet

Salary: ¥6,000,000 - ¥10,000,000 per annum

Workplace Type: On-site

Experience Level: Associate

Language: Japanese - Native

Second Language: English - Business level

Location: Fukuoka

Job Reference: OVL0WI-10023582

Date posted: 15 August 2026

Consultant: Lion Mollmann