Rakuten · 4 months ago
Associate Cloud DevOps Engineer
San Mateo, California
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry Level
$79K/yr - $134K/yrRakuten International is a division of Rakuten Group, Inc., a Japanese global technology leader in services that empower individuals and businesses. The Associate Cloud DevOps Engineer role is part of the Cloud Infrastructure team, focusing on cloud infrastructure operations, implementations, and service-oriented strategies, contributing to projects related to automation, monitoring, and infrastructure management services.
E-CommerceElectronicsFinTechInternetPayments
Responsibilities
Day to day administration of various cloud and infrastructure technologies including Linux (Ubuntu, Centos, KVM), Networking (Cisco, Juniper, Cumulus, Citrix) and cloud platforms AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, k8s
Work with senior staff to perform updates and upgrades of the Rakuten cloud infrastructure systems, networks, platforms (e.g., release, update/patch, version control, inventory assessment)
Collaborate with senior staff to build a new developer platform service that offers resources on both private and public cloud infrastructure
Contribute to cloud infrastructure automation (Networking and/or Linux) and help with the improvements related to CI/CD (Jenkins, Git workflow)
Work collaboratively with the offshore operations team and contribute to in-house documentation and tools to support their daily troubleshooting
Participate in efforts to design, develop, and maintain the infrastructure management systems on multiple cloud platforms
Qualification
Required
Academic understanding of cloud / infrastructure with previous hands-on experience working on servers, networks or DevOps tools (personal, school or professional projects)
Familiarity with public cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure or GCP, and container technologies, such as Kubernetes, AWS EKS, GCP GKE, Docker and Nomad
Experience writing Python scripts
Strong written and verbal communication skills required
Strong analytical, quantitative, problem solving, and conceptual skills required
Must be detail oriented and able to prioritize tasks to meet deadlines
Must be able to work independently and in a team
Bachelor's or master's degree in information technology, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field
Preferred
Relevant prior internship experience
Benefits
Discretionary bonus
Health
Vision
Dental insurance
401k matching
PTO
Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
Other employee benefits
Company
Rakuten
Rakuten is a provider of e-commerce, fintech, digital content, and communications products and services.
Founded in 1997
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$7.27BKey Investors
Japan Post Holdings
2025-10-17Post Ipo Debt· $546.3M
2024-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $550.22M
2024-04-04Post Ipo Debt· $1.98B
Leadership Team
Mickey Mikitani
Founder, Chairman & CEO
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Kentaro Hyakuno
Director, Executive Vice President & COO
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