Responsibilities:

• Manage the IT infrastructure of production control system to be available as defined in the target SLA.
• Scope of the IT infrastructure are Hardware (server, storage, devices), OS and Middleware. (WebApp, DB, Scheduler, etc.)
• Daily Operations
• Plan and propose configuration changes to superior and user when there is a request from user or application team.
• Prepare procedure, implement and test for approved the config change. Report the test results to the superiors and user.
• Prepare and execute migration and monitoring on the production server. Report the results to the superiors and user.
• Regularly monitor for system alerts. If any disruption is found or reported by the user, conduct troubleshooting in coordination with the team, users, and vendors.
• Proactively propose for improvements or preventive actions if any issues found in the current system configuration.
• Collaboration/Communication
• Report line is Infrastructure team leader and the manager who is above application and infrastructure team.
• Regularly report the service status of IT infrastructure to the superiors and the user.
• Communicate with the application team for infrastructure related matters (ex. infra related error, resource issue, etc.).
• Help other member(s) in the infrastructure team, not only technically but also to perform better as a team.
• Prepare report documents submit to the superiors or the user in English.

Experiences

• (E) Working in IT company or IT department for at least 2 years.
• (E) Working as server administrator of UNIX/Linux server for at least 1 year.
• (D) Working as database administrator for more than 1 year.
• (D) Experience in implementing Java Web App system infrastructure.
• (D) Design and implement one of following products: VMWare vSphere, IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM MQ.
• (D) Experience in running a mission critical system.
• (D) Experience of working as a leader of a team.
• (D) Experience in automating server administration task by own script.
• (D) Experience in implementing DevOps automation platform. (ex. IaC, CI/CD, container, etc.)
• (D) Working in/for a manufacturing company.
• (D) Working in Japanese companies

Skills and Others

• (E) UNIX/Linux server administration by command line. (LPIC-1 level)
• (E) Shell script programming for automating server administration tasks.
• (E) Understand the IT products by reading vendor’s English manuals.
• (E) Ability to give logical reasoning for the cause of a problem, based on facts and product’s specification.
• (D) DBMS administration. (Oracle Bronze, etc.)
• (D) Compare and evaluate multiple products or architectures of IT infrastructure considering RASIS.
• (D) Understand the basic quality assurance concepts to create test cases.
• (D) Good interpersonal skills. The ability to collaborate with the members to help and lead the team.
• (D) Positive and subjective attitude to work in a team.

Education

• (E) Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, IT, business computer, or related field.

Language

• (E) English: Able to read and write business documents, communicate in business meeting, read vendor manuals.

Age

• (E) Up to 35 years old.