fixed-term project engagement｜Lead DevOps / SRE

[ ABOUT TENCHIJIN ]
Tenchijin Inc. is a Tokyo-headquartered space-tech company and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) certified venture. Through its land-evaluation and analytics platform, Tenchijin COMPASS, the company fuses earth-observation satellite data, geospatial and environmental layers, IoT and ground-sensor feeds, and clients' operational data with proprietary AI to deliver multimodal analytics for utilities and infrastructure enterprises. Tenchijin's flagship water-infrastructure solution, KnoWaterleak, assesses pipeline deterioration and leak risk from space-derived insights and is used by a growing number of water utilities to prioritize inspection and investment, reduce non-revenue water, and extend asset life.

[ ABOUT THE PROJECT ]
The Global South Project is an 18-month initiative (November 2026 – April 2028) to design, build, and deploy a scalable, secure, AI-ready analytics platform tailored to utilities and infrastructure operators across Global South markets. The project adapts Tenchijin's satellite-data and GeoAI capabilities to regions facing aging or rapidly expanding infrastructure, constrained budgets, and limited field-inspection capacity — delivering risk assessment and decision-support tools that improve infrastructure management workflows. All positions are contract-based and fully remote, operating as one distributed, cross-border team with English as the working language.

[ ROLE SUMMARY ]
In this 12-month engagement you will design and build the automation foundation that the rest of the project stands on: CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, automated testing frameworks, and deployment tooling for a multi-cloud, multi-tenant geospatial analytics platform. Your goal is that by the end of your contract, every service ships through a fully automated, tested, and observable path to production — and the team you leave behind can run and extend it.

[ Reports To ]
Cloud Operations Manager / Senior DevOps Manager
[ Project Language ]
English (professional working proficiency or higher required)

[ KEY RESPONSIBILITIES ]

• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines covering build, test, security scanning, artifact management, and progressive deployment (blue/green or canary) for all platform services.
• Establish the infrastructure-as-code baseline (Terraform/Pulumi) and GitOps workflows for provisioning environments across clouds and regions.
• Build and standardize container orchestration (Kubernetes) deployment patterns: Helm/manifests, autoscaling policies, and multi-tenant namespace strategy.
• Implement automated system-testing frameworks — integration, load, and smoke testing wired into the pipeline — in collaboration with the QA Engineer.
• Stand up the observability stack (metrics, logs, traces, alerting) and integrate it with SLO monitoring defined by the SRE function.
• Automate database migrations, secrets rotation, and environment promotion to eliminate manual release steps.
• Mentor cloud engineers and developers on pipeline usage, IaC contribution standards, and deployment best practices; document everything for handover.
• Continuously measure and improve deployment frequency, lead time, change-failure rate, and MTTR.

[ WHAT WE OFFER ]

• A central role in applying satellite data and AI to real infrastructure challenges, with measurable social and environmental impact in Global South markets.
• Fully remote, cross-border collaboration with senior specialists across cloud, GeoAI, product, and design.
• Competitive contractor compensation commensurate with experience and scope.
• Direct exposure to earth-observation technology, including data ecosystems built with Japan's space agency (JAXA).
  Tenchijin Inc. is an equal-opportunity organization. We evaluate all applicants on qualifications and merit, without regard to nationality, race, religion, gender, age, or disability.
  TENCHIJIN INC. · GLOBAL SOUTH PROJECT

必須スキル

• 6+ years in DevOps/SRE roles with deep hands-on ownership of CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) in production.
• Expert-level infrastructure as code (Terraform strongly preferred) and Kubernetes administration.
• Strong scripting/programming ability (Python, Go, or Bash) for building automation tooling.
• Experience implementing automated testing frameworks and quality gates within pipelines.
• Solid grounding in observability tooling (Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or similar).
• Professional working proficiency in English.

歓迎スキル

• Experience with data/ML pipeline automation (Airflow, Argo Workflows) or geospatial processing workloads.
• Multi-cloud deployment experience.
• Track record of knowledge transfer / enablement in time-boxed consulting or contract engagements.
• Experience working in a cross-functional POD / squad delivery model.

給与

Up to ¥1,300,000 / month

勤務地

Remote — Global (cross-border, distributed team)

雇用形態

Independent Contractor (fixed-term project engagement)

勤務時間

Contract Period: March 1, 2027 – April 30, 2028 (14 months)

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【Notice Regarding the Selection Process】
Due to an unexpectedly high volume of applications, the screening process and notification of results are taking longer than usual.
We are reviewing applications sequentially and will contact you as soon as possible. We kindly ask for your patience.

• *Please note that we are unable to respond individually to direct inquiries regarding application statuses made via our recruitment website or phone. Thank you for your understanding.

Remote — Global (cross-border, distributed team)

Up to ¥1,300,000 / month