Job Summary:

Lead as senior engineer in all deployment of applications, associated tools and best practices with Microsoft Azure technologies as an Infrastructure engineer. Provides technical leadership and design, development, implementation, and consulting to the organization. Responsible to plan, lead, document and integrate complex tool software and features strategies and solutions with related technical groups. Conducts complex problem prevention, resolution, and integration planning.

Responsibilities:

–    Train, mentor, and provide technical guidance to less experienced associates on Azure and related technologies
–    Review implementation designs, configurations and CI/CD pipeline frameworks
–    End-to-end solution designs including security, availability, networking and performance of the platform and applications.
–    Lifecyle ownership on Cloud services for continual improvements.
–    Plans and executes broad resolutions to recurring problems and regulatory changes
–    Plans and executes Infrastructure as Code practices
–    Handles complex communication with technical and business partners outside engineering group
–    Function tests new solutions and tool releases and fixes, including compatibility testing and documentation of steps and issues.
–    Performs advanced tests and documents best practices, including plans upgrade and path deployments
–    Partners with application development, operations, and customers to identify needs, opportunities, and solutions, for example using advanced features
–    Acts as a point of contact for global teams to ensure local and global best practice align
–    Establishes and updates local standards and best practice within own technical area
 

Requirements:

Basic qualifications
–    Bachelor’s degree in Information technology or related discipline.
–    2+ years of experience on Kubernetes in platform level engineering and administration with integrating with integrating with the other systems such as load balancer
–    2+ years of experience on Cloud based DB, such as Azure SQL/Cosmos DB in platform level engineering and administration with designing high availability and security  
–    2+ years administrative networking activities on NW routing, Firewall, NW dump analysis and NW monitoring
–    4+ years administrative activities on Web technologies, TLS with PKI infrastructure, DNS, Load balancer, Reverse Proxy, WAF and HTTP/S session analysis
–    5 years or more experience to support Application developers to onboard applications into Cloud Based Application platform

Preferred Qualifications

–    8+ years of Cloud based technologies implementation for Application platform and 2+ years’ experience with some or all of below as an Infrastructure engineer
–    Cloud based NW – Express route, VNet, MS peering, UDR, NSG, Azure GW 
     Cloud based storage – Azure Blob storage, File storage 
     Cloud based container – Azure Kubernetes, Azure Apps 
     Cloud based DB – Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL 
     Cloud based Batch service – Azure Batch 
     Cloud based Directory service – Azure AD 
     Cloud based Key vault – Azure Key vault  
     Cloud based CI/CD Tool – Azure DevOps and ARM Template
–    5 years or more experience to provision and setup Cloud native technologies with ensuring right security control and durability as standard design
–    Communicates effectively within the engineering team and with other technical and business teams
–    Has the motivation and ability to carry out complex problem-solving to achieve a resolution.
–    Has the aptitude for planning, implementing, and debugging software and related technologies.
–    Excellent written and oral communication skills in English. Japanese skills preferred
–    Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills with the ability to effectively convey concepts to business and technology peers as well as senior management.
–    Positive and forward-looking personality
–    Highly motivated to learn new technologies and evaluate its application in MetLife Japan.
–    Well organized and able to work independently with minimal direction.
–    Ability to work simultaneously on multiple large, complex projects in a team setting as a facilitator and team member.
 

Preferable:

–    Various Certifications in Cloud related technologies above associate or higher level such as Azure AZ-104 or AWS Solution Architect Associate
 

Language:

Japanese : Basic

English : Intermediate or above