Hello, I’m Kotaro Muramoto from JOBs Japan. I help tech professionals from all over the world find outstanding roles in Japan. This story shows what deep experience in cloud infrastructure, security, and operations can achieve.

Candidate Profile

• Nationality: Spain

• Years of Experience: ~13 years in IT engineering

• Core Strengths / Skills:

  • Infrastructure setup and management with AWS & GCP

  • DevOps / SRE work: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm)

  • Scripting / automation: Bash, Python, Go

  • Monitoring, observability, log stacks (ELK), security management, alerts & incident response

  • Supporting development teams, mentoring or guiding junior engineers

Why the Role Was Open

• As the company grows, the load on their cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and API infrastructure has increased.

• With new app development and introduction of AI models, they needed rapid & secure access control and infrastructure scaling.

• Infrastructure stability, security, and managing operations are becoming mission-critical.

What Made This Candidate Stand Out

1. Deep technical breadth & leadership — Not only hands-on experience, but also lead / mentor role, guiding teams, helping shape infrastructure.

2. Strong cloud / infra foundation — Tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, etc., are very valuable in SRE/DevOps roles in Japan.

3. Focus on stability & security — With companies pushing more into AI and rapid development, ensuring that infrastructure is stable and secure becomes a key differentiator.

4. Relevant experience in complex, growing environments — Someone who has managed growing infrastructure and adapted to increasing demands is more trusted to hit the ground running.

Outcome

• Annual compensation: ~ ¥5,800,000

• Role: DevOps / SRE Engineer in a major Japanese internet / innovation company, responsible for cloud infrastructure, access management, CI/CD, incident response, security tasks, and supporting dev teams.

• The candidate joined as the 4th hire in this team for the company, implying there are opportunities to shape direction and contribute significantly.

What You Can Learn & Apply in Your Job Search

• Invest in cloud & infra tools: Knowing AWS, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes etc. is essential. Also, experience with monitoring, log management, incident response adds big value.

• Automation & Infrastructure as Code: The ability to script, automate, and manage config as code is no longer optional in SRE/DevOps roles.

• Security & stability are a plus, not just optional: If you’ve worked on securing access, managing permissions, responding to incidents, etc., highlight that well in your resume.

• Leadership & communication: Even if not a formal manager, being able to mentor, guide other engineers, help with architecture/design discussions, or lead operations during incidents shows leadership.

• Prepare for high expectations: Since the team is adding infrastructure-capacity and scaling, being ready to both write code/config and to respond on operations + monitoring is important.