DevOps Engineer - Data Platform Department (DPD)

Job Description:
Department Overview
The Data Platform Department (DPD) at Rakuten Group develops and maintains a comprehensive data platform, empowering over 70 Rakuten services with solutions for data ingestion, discovery, governance, analytics, and querying. We support data-driven decision-making across one of Japan's largest data ecosystems, providing the tools and infrastructure to support key domains such as Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and Business Intelligence.

Position:
Position Details
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to manage the end-to-end operations of our enterprise Databricks platform hosted on Azure and GCP. The role will focus on platform administration, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, security, incident management, and ensuring a secure, reliable, and highly available platform.

Key Responsibilities

- Manage day-to-day operations of Azure and GCP Databricks environments

- Automate infrastructure provisioning and platform configuration using Terraform

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Databricks deployments

- Monitor platform health, performance, availability, and costs

- Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive operational improvements

- Manage platform security, access controls, secrets, and audit logging

- Collaborate with engineering, cloud, networking, and security teams to support platform operations

Mandatory Qualifications:

- 3+ years of hands-on experience administering Azure Databricks in production environments

- Strong knowledge of Unity Catalog, workspace administration, cluster policies, compute management, Jobs & Workflows, permissions, secret scopes, and audit logs

- Experience managing multiple Databricks workspaces across development, test, and production environments

- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

- Experience with cloud networking concepts including VNet/VPC, Private Link/Private Endpoints, firewall rules, DNS, VPN/Peering, and secure connectivity

- Hands-on experience with Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure

- Experience automating infrastructure deployment, configuration management, and environment standardization

- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins

- Strong knowledge of Git, branching strategies, release management, and deployment automation

- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, GCP Cloud Monitoring, or similar tools

- Strong experience in production support, incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and operational runbook creation

- Experience implementing RBAC, Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), IAM, service principals, managed identities, secret management, and audit logging

- Good understanding of cloud security best practices and compliance requirements

- Proficiency in Python and Bash (PowerShell is an advantage)

- Experience developing automation scripts for operational and deployment tasks

- Strong understanding of DevOps principles, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, GitOps, change management, and platform reliability engineering

- Experience managing multi-cloud Databricks platforms (Azure & GCP)

- Knowledge of Delta Sharing, Delta Live Tables, Databricks Asset Bundles, and Lakehouse architecture

- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, or Datadog.

- Experience with cloud cost optimization (FinOps)

- Azure, GCP, Databricks, or Terraform certifications

Preferred Qualifications:

- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills

- Experience supporting mission-critical production platforms

- Excellent communication and documentation skills

- Automation-first mindset with a focus on continuous improvement

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