Middleware Engineer

Job Description

Appealing Points:

• Lead middleware and infrastructure operations while driving stability improvements and operational excellence.
• Work with modern technologies including cloud, CI/CD, Docker, and automation solutions.
• Gain global leadership exposure by collaborating with international teams and contributing to strategic IT initiatives.

Annual Salary: 5 million yen and above

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyzes daily activity of the team to explore area to be improve.
• Manages internal and external service suppliers including product vendors.
• Provides middleware engineering/operation team leadership in areas of expertise.
• Ensures business requirements are met in a timely manner.
• Participate/conduct middleware related projects as IT PL role.
• Works closely with other organizations including MetLife global team to promote efficient IT go-live optimization.
• Identifies root cause of the incidents and fix the incident in areas of expertise.
• Identifies improvement areas and plans and implements systems to boost company effectiveness.
• Assists to upper management in setting initiatives that promote stability improvement in DB operations.
• Assists to upper management in preparing key goals, budgets, schedules, and other organizational reports as needed.
• Assists to upper management in promoting and enforcing stability of systems.
• Assists to upper management in developing plans to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
• Assists to upper management in managing assets and inventory.

Job Qualification:

• 8 + years of IT experience including infrastructure engineering and/or operation roles.
• 2 + years of staff management in IT department
• Technical skill in Web Application (WAS, Tomcat, IIS), MQ, Cloud (PaaS, SaaS, IaaS), CICD, Docker
• Tendering, contracting, contract supervision and financial management
• Identification and creation of automation scripts and software implementation with the goal of infrastructure operation automation
• Leading meetings to review requirements, review gap analysis, review a technical methodology, and assist in conducting demonstrations of solution.
• Problem-solving & decision making that supports a defect resolution process by bringing an understanding of operations scheme, its engineering, and the underlying business processes.

Preferred Qualification:

• Experience as a Solution Architect/Software Engineer/Project Manager/IT System Administrator
• A background in Life Insurance company
• ITIL, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or equivalent training

Language Skills: Fluent level Japanese (JLPT N1) and Business level English

Company Description:

Our Client has operations in more than 40 countries and holds leading market positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. We are ranked #43 on the Fortune 500 list for 2018. With over 150 years of experience, the companies offer life, accident and health insurance, retirement, and savings products through agents, third-party distributors such as banks and brokers, and direct marketing channels. Our name is recognized and trusted by approximately 100 million customers worldwide, and we serve more than 90 of the top 100 FORTUNE 500 companies in the United States.