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We empower application engineers to build reliable and scalable systems while ensuring unified support and consistent quality across all departments.\nThe Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) is a cross-functional team responsible for creating and implementing cloud-related best practices, guidelines, and governance policies. Our primary mission is to ensure that cloud resources are used effectively and efficiently to achieve Rakuten's business objectives. We drive our multi-cloud strategy across GCP, AWS, Azure, and OCI, accelerating cloud adoption, enhancing security, standardizing processes, fostering faster innovation, and optimizing cost efficiency (FinOps) throughout the organization.\nPosition:\nWhy We Hire\nAs public cloud adoption continues to grow across the organization, we need dedicated cloud engineers to handle the increasing volume of cloud requests, configuration tasks, and user inquiries. 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Cloud Governance Improvement\n- Periodically review and propose improvements to governance policies, security guardrails, and operational rules\n- Update and promote best practices based on analysis of organization-wide cloud usage trends\n- Propose and implement automation and efficiency improvements forCCoEoperations (including scripting and tooling)\n- Analyze recurring issues and request patterns, and reflect findings into preventive measures and standardization efforts\n2. Cloud Request Handling\n- Review and process new public cloud account, project, and subscription creation requests\n- Drive approval workflows via Jira tickets\n- Verify that request contents meet governance policies and security requirements\n- Communicate with requesters to answer questions and requestadditionalinformation as needed\n3. Cloud Configuration & Build Operations\n- Perform configuration tasks for IAM, networking, storage, and other cloud resources following Change Management procedures\n- Execute operations based on existing runbooks and manuals\n- Conduct pre/post-checks, document results, and report outcomes in Jira tickets\n- Troubleshoot issuesencounteredduring operations and escalate when necessary\n4. Support & Inquiry Handling\n- Provide first-line responses to technical inquiries from internal cloud users\n- Answer and guide users referencing existing FAQs and documentation\n- Escalate unresolved issues to team members\n- Record and aggregate inquiry trends to contribute to FAQ and knowledge base improvements\n5. 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