Lead Cloud Engineer

**About the company:** Mico Minato-ku, Tokyo We offer multiple products that deliver conversational experiences, including MicoCloud, a platform that is used by over 1,000 clients to reach over 29 million people. **Responsibilities:** Develop growth strategies for the team and projects, and drive their execution by involving stakeholders both inside and outside the company Lead technical projects with measurable outcomes Lead cross-functional projects Design and implement improvements to increase system reliability and scalability Define and operate SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to manage reliability targets Respond to incidents Establish and standardize root cause analysis (RCA) processes and foster a blameless postmortem culture Design and improve observability infrastructure for metrics, logs, and traces Improve developer productivity by developing CI/CD pipelines and release management processes Improve visibility into cloud costs and optimize cloud spending Work with the company-wide security team to implement and comply with security requirements Collaborate with development and product teams Document and share knowledge and best practices Requirements Experience designing, building, and operating systems using cloud services such as AWS Experience building infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK Experience designing, building, and operating CI/CD and DevOps pipelines Advanced debugging and troubleshooting skills Understanding of system architecture Experience making and driving technical decisions at the team or project level Ability to build consensus and involve stakeholders across departments Business-level English or higher Japanese proficiency of JLPT N3 or equivalent or higher (at least basic business-level Japanese) Nice to haves While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Experience designing and operating SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets Experience establishing incident response and on-call processes Experience designing, building, and operating observability infrastructure using tools such as New Relic, Sentry, or CloudWatch Experience designing, building, and operating systems using container technologies such as Docker Proven experience optimizing cloud costs Experience automating processes using scripting languages Experience designing and implementing security measures Compensation ¥7,000,000 ~ ¥11,000,000 annually. APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION About Mico Mico Minato-ku, Tokyo We offer multiple products that deliver conversational experiences, including MicoCloud, a platform that is used by over 1,000 clients to reach over 29 million people. Key benefits A growing company in a growing market Open and inclusive communication Team over self Read more More jobs like this We'll send you a digest of new English-friendly software developer jobs in Japan. Your email stays private, we don't share or sell it. Apply for this position × This position is only open to current residents of Japan. This position requires conversational Japanese. I have a favour to ask. When you apply to Mico, please tell them that you heard about the position on TokyoDev . This helps to keep this job board sustainable, so I'd be grateful for your support with this. - Paul, Founder of TokyoDev Continue applying © 2026 Privacy Policy **Requirements:** DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, automation and tooling, release management, and improving the developer experience SRE: SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, incident response, observability, and postmortems In this role, you will develop strategies for growing the team and key projects while providing technical leadership across the organization. Responsibilities Develop growth strategies for the team and projects, and drive their execution by involving stakeholders both inside and outside the company Lead technical projects with measurable outcomes Lead cross-functional projects Design and implement improvements to increase system reliability and scalability Define and operate SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to manage reliability targets Respond to incidents Establish and standardize root cause analysis (RCA) processes and foster a blameless postmortem culture Design and improve observability infrastructure for metrics, logs, and traces Improve developer productivity by developing CI/CD pipelines and release management processes Improve visibility into cloud costs and optimize cloud spending Work with the company-wide security team to implement and comply with security requirements Collaborate with development and product teams Document and share knowledge and best practices Requirements Experience designing, building, and operating systems using cloud services such as AWS Experience building infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK Experience designing, building, and operating CI/CD and DevOps pipelines Advanced debugging and troubleshooting skills Understanding of system architecture Experience making and driving technical decisions at the team or project level Ability to build consensus and involve stakeholders across departments Business-level English or higher Japanese proficiency of JLPT N3 or equivalent or higher (at least basic business-level Japanese) **Nice to have:** While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Experience designing and operating SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets Experience establishing incident response and on-call processes Experience designing, building, and operating observability infrastructure using tools such as New Relic, Sentry, or CloudWatch Experience designing, building, and operating systems using container technologies such as Docker Proven experience optimizing cloud costs Experience automating processes using scripting languages Experience designing and implementing security measures **Compensation:** ¥7,000,000 ~ ¥11,000,000 annually. APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION About Mico Mico Minato-ku, Tokyo We offer multiple products that deliver conversational experiences, including MicoCloud, a platform that is used by over 1,000 clients to reach over 29 million people. Key benefits A growing company in a growing market Open and inclusive communication Team over self Read more More jobs like this We'll send you a digest of new English-friendly software developer jobs in Japan. Your email stays private, we don't share or sell it. Apply for this position × This position is only open to current residents of Japan. This position requires conversational Japanese. I have a favour to ask. When you apply to Mico, please tell them that you heard about the position on TokyoDev . This helps to keep this job board sustainable, so I'd be grateful for your support with this. - Paul, Founder of TokyoDev Continue applying © 2026 Privacy Policy