Rakuten Cloud Platform (RCP) Engineer (L3 / Infrastructure Specialist), CICD Factory Department (RS GSD Div)

Job Description:

About Organization

Rakuten Symphony is at the forefront of revolutionizing the telecommunications industry, building the future of mobile networks with innovative, cloud-native, and Open RAN solutions. Our mission is to empower operators globally to deliver cutting-edge services efficiently and at scale.

Job Duties

• Kernel-Level Optimization:Conduct deep-dive performance tuning (sysctl, tuna, /proc) to optimize RHEL for real-time (RT) workloads.

• RAN Workload Tuning:Configure and tune vCU/vDU components, implementing CPU isolation (isolcpus), IRQ affinity, and NUMA alignment to achieve deterministic performance.

• Network Acceleration:Optimize packet processing using DPDK and SR-IOV to bypass kernel bottlenecks for high-throughput RAN traffic.

• Advanced Troubleshooting:Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for high-severity incidents using advanced tracing tools (ftrace, trace-cmd, perf).

• Automation & Hardening:Develop complex Ansible playbooks to automate kernel hardening and performance profile deployments across large-scale clusters.

• Lifecycle Management:Manage vulnerability patching, OS upgrades, and hardware-software interaction (Intel RDT, CAT, BIOS-level tuning).

• Virtualization:Expert management of KVM/QEMU, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, and containerized vDU pods within Kubernetes.

Technical Skills & Tools

• Core:Kubernetes, Linux (RHEL 8/9, Rocky Linux), Docker, Helm, Git

• Hardware:Supermicro, Dell iDRAC, HP

• Automation:Ansible, Python, Shell

• Monitoring/Diagnostics:top, htop, vmstat, iostat, pqos, ftrace, perf

• Certifications:RHEL, CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator)

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience:8–12 years of relevant experience in telecommunications infrastructure engineering or SRE, with a proven track record in large-scale, complex environments.

• Kubernetes & Virtualization:Deep knowledge of bare-metal Kubernetes deployments and virtualization in development/production environments.

• Networking:Expertise in host-level networking, DNS/DHCP architecture, TLS management, load balancing, and advanced container networking.

• SRE Practices:Proven application of SRE principles, including major incident leadership, capacity/scalability strategy, and advanced change management.

• Security:Strong architectural knowledge of security hardening, RBAC models, pod security mechanisms, and secret management.

• Technical Depth:In-depth knowledge of process scheduling (SCHED_DEADLINE, SCHED_FIFO), memory management, and I/O schedulers.

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