DevOps Engineer

Shippio Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥6M ~ ¥9M annually
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 2+ years experience required
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan
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About Shippio

Shippio Minato-ku, Tokyo

Japan's first digital freight forwarder, building a multi-faceted digital platform that allows both customers (importer/exporter) and operators to efficiently and fluidly process international trade workflows.

Key benefits

  • Passionate and human-sized team
  • Exciting challenges and rapid growth
  • World-class engineering team

About the position

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer eager to learn the latest technologies in the field and apply them to our ever growing processes. Communicative, adaptive, team focused, enthusiastic about solving problems, and always in the lookout for new and exciting challenges. You will have the opportunity to join the Platform and Security team which is at the forefront of the company, creating and polishing processes which smoothen the road of the engineers to bring the latest features of our software in the Logistics Industry.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines to ensure the tasks required by the engineers run appropriately
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate security measures into the DevOps lifecycle, contributing to our DevSecOps initiatives.
  • Help in automating processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
  • Participate in the implementation of monitoring and logging solutions to ensure high availability and proactive issue resolution.
  • Work with version control systems and help in managing code repositories using IaC
  • Contribute to the documentation of DevOps processes and guidelines.
  • Support the development team in infrastructure setup, deployment, and troubleshooting.
  • Stay updated with emerging trends and technologies in DevOps and cybersecurity.
  • Engage in continuous learning to grow technical skills and knowledge.
  • Incident support
  • Contribute to Open Source software when possible Shippio

Requirements

  • Technical
    • 2+years of experience in DevOps or Engineering
    • Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash, Perl, Awk) and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, CDK).
    • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent in related fields
    • Basic understanding of CI/CD principles and tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
    • Familiarity with cloud services (e.g. AWS, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) and its orchestration.
    • Basic understanding of Monitoring and Observability platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk)
    • Visualization and Metrics platforms (e.g Grafana, Prometheus)
    • Experience with Git version control
  • Non-Technical
    • A strong desire to learn and adapt to new technologies and challenges.
    • Good problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
    • Strong organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills
    • Proactive in identifying problems and improvements related to automation
    • DevOps Mindset

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Software engineering background
  • Some experience in web application development

Compensation

6 to 9 million JPY annually.

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Meet Shippio's Developers

Gloria recently joined Shippio, starting her engineering manager career after previously working as a security engineer. She talks about her role, how the transition went, the company culture, and how she’s helping to shape their security processes.

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Chris Ackermann started his career in logistics, where he pushed to improve conditions for operators. Rebooting his career as a software developer at Shippio, he once again pursues his passion of revolutionising the logistics industry.

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