Platform Engineer

JMDC

AWS

Terraform

Healthtech

About this role

The Platform Engineer supports infrastructure shared across healthcare data products. The platform group is responsible for improving, building, and supporting environments that are primarily cloud-based, with the aim of providing stable customer value and improving developer experience.

Responsibilities include supporting system design and construction on AWS, building environments with infrastructure as code using Terraform, designing and building CI/CD environments, handling security design and audits, responding to incidents, investigating and resolving the causes of system failures, and advising on system configurations during development.

Required qualifications include knowledge of cloud platforms, including an understanding of services and concepts from major providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Candidates must also have experience building and effectively operating infrastructure such as servers, networks, and databases, as well as an understanding of system and network security and the ability to apply security best practices.

Experience with web service development, operation, and maintenance; infrastructure monitoring and incident response; infrastructure automation using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Puppet, or Ansible; and automated testing, building, and deployment using GitHub Actions or CircleCI is welcomed. Experience designing, building, and operating systems using Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS ECS, along with knowledge of the healthcare and medical field, is also welcomed.

The role involves cross-department communication and team-based work, with an emphasis on prioritizing work to maximize business impact and improving skills across the team. The position is based initially at the Tokyo office in Minato, Tokyo, with remote work available. Working hours follow a flextime system with an 11:00–15:00 core time and standard working hours of eight hours per day with a 60-minute break. Benefits include health and social insurance, commuting allowance, defined-contribution pension, employee stock ownership, technical learning and certification support, and participation support for engineering events.

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