Global Network Engineer - Datacenter & Cloud Platforms

Rakuten Asia Pte Ltd; Paris; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Rakuten Asia Pte Ltd in Paris oversees a European Cloud Platform Supervisory Department network team. You will manage network operations across data centers, deploy and maintain networks, and collaborate with Japan and US teams on 24/7 support initiatives.

You will contribute to capacity planning, oncall rotations, and future infrastructure expansions while using open‑source technologies and automation to improve service quality.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in IT and 3–5 years proven experience as a network engineer.
• Fluent English.
• Experience deploying and managing networks in follow‑the‑sun environments.

Responsibilities

• Network administration and engineering for Rakuten’s global platforms.
• Monitoring IT infrastructure and platforms, troubleshooting with developers as needed.
• Developing tools/frameworks to automate operations and improve existing processes.

Skills

BGP

OSPF

VXLAN EVPN

Nexus/Cisco

Juniper MX

Arista

Dell

Linux

FRR

Cumulus Linux

SONiC

Flow analysis

Wireshark

Python

Ansible

Chef

Network automation

AIOps

English fluency

Team collaboration

Japanese language (nice to have)

Education

Master’s degree in IT

Tools

Cisco Nexus

Juniper MX

Arista

Dell

Job description

Rakuten Asia Pte Ltd in Paris oversees a European Cloud Platform Supervisory Department network team. You will manage network operations across data centers, deploy and maintain networks, and collaborate with Japan and US teams on 24/7 support initiatives.

You will contribute to capacity planning, oncall rotations, and future infrastructure expansions while using open‑source technologies and automation to improve service quality.