fixed-term project engagement｜Cloud Engineer

[ 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 (October 2026 – March 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 ] As a Cloud Engineer you will provision, configure, and operate the cloud resources that power the platform — and automate yourself out of every manual task. You will implement the architecture defined by the Senior Cloud Architect using infrastructure as code, and build the monitoring that keeps a multi-tenant, multi-region platform observable and healthy. [ Reports To ] Cloud Operations Manager / Senior DevOps Manager [ Project Language ] English (professional working proficiency or higher required) [ KEY RESPONSIBILITIES ] - Provision and configure cloud resources (compute, storage, networking, databases, Kubernetes clusters) across environments using infrastructure as code. - Fully automate infrastructure deployment: no manually created production resources; everything reproducible from version-controlled code. - Implement and maintain system monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for infrastructure health, capacity, and cost. - Support multi-tenant onboarding: provisioning tenant environments, quotas, and access controls per the platform's isolation model. - Execute patching, upgrades, and backup/restore procedures; validate disaster-recovery runbooks. - Respond to infrastructure incidents within the on-call rotation; contribute to post-incident improvements. - Implement cost-optimization measures directed by the Cloud Operations Manager (right-sizing, lifecycle policies, scheduling). - Document infrastructure configurations and operational runbooks. [ 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

- 5+ years in cloud engineering/administration on AWS, GCP, or Azure. - Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform preferred) and comfort with Git-based workflows. - Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized workloads. - Scripting ability (Python or Bash) for automation. - Experience with monitoring/alerting stacks (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, Datadog, or similar). - Professional working proficiency in English.

- Associate/professional cloud certification. - Exposure to multi-cloud or multi-region deployments. - Experience supporting data-intensive or geospatial workloads. - Experience working in a cross-functional POD / squad delivery model.