Design, operate, secure, automate, and continuously improve enterprise server infrastructure across Windows, Linux, VMware, Azure, storage, and backup platforms. The role handles provisioning, patching, monitoring, performance tuning, disaster recovery, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, compliance remediation, documentation, and cross-functional infrastructure delivery.
Description and Requirements
Role Description
The Senior Server Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of enterprise server infrastructure across Windows Server, Red Hat Linux, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery platforms. The role ensures platform stability, security, performance, lifecycle management, automation, troubleshooting, and operational excellence while partnering with application, security, operations, global technology, business, and vendor teams.
Key Responsibilities:
• Design, implement, operate, and improve enterprise server infrastructure across Windows Server, Red Hat Linux, VMware, Azure, storage, and backup/recovery platforms.
• Transform server operations, including provisioning, configuration, monitoring, maintenance, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and performance tuning through automation and self-service capabilities.
• Ensure platform security, availability, compliance, reliability, and operational performance.
• Provide advanced troubleshooting and escalation support for Windows/Linux servers, virtualization, Azure, storage, backup, networking, and application-hosting issues.
• Perform root cause analysis, drive problem management activities, and implement long-term corrective actions.
• Implement security hardening, compliance remediation, access control improvements, and audit actions in partnership with Security and Risk teams.
• Develop automation scripts, runbooks, workflows, technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and knowledge articles.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, operations, business, global technology, and vendor teams to deliver secure and reliable services.
General Responsibilities:
• Translate business and application requirements into secure, scalable infrastructure solutions that comply with local and global standards.
• Evaluate options, document risks, assumptions, and dependencies, maintain technical standards, and communicate requirements, design decisions, constraints, and trade-offs effectively.
• Collaborate successfully within global, multicultural, and cross-functional teams.
Candidate Qualifications:
Education:
• Bachelor of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
Experience:
• Minimum 7 years of server engineering experience.
• Hands-on expertise with Windows Server, Red Hat Linux, VMware, Azure, storage, backup/recovery, virtualization, automation (PowerShell, Bash), performance tuning, and security hardening.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and operational ownership skills .
Certification
• M S 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate or equivalent server/infrastructure management certification.
Language
• Business proficiency in Japanese; English proficiency is an advantage.
福利厚生
メットライフ生命では、ワークライフバランスと社員の心身の健康を促進する福利厚生を提供しています。社員はフレックスタイム制度、年次有給休暇、特別連続休暇、リフレッシュ休暇等の休暇を利用できます。また、社会保険や団体保険の他、旅行や英会話教室で使える割引も提供しています。柔軟に働けるよう、オフィス勤務と在宅勤務を組み合わせた勤務形態の導入や、短時間勤務制度、また柔軟性のあるドレスコードなども設けています。
Benefits We Offer
MetLife Japan offers a comprehensive benefits package that promotes work-life balance and employee wellbeing. Employees can take advantage of flex time policy and a generous time-off policy, national holidays, annual paid leave, special consecutive leave, and refreshment leave. We also provide full social insurance coverage, a commuting expense reimbursement, group insurance, and discounts on travel and English language lessons. To support work flexibility, employees also have hybrid work options, shortened working hours for parents with children in third grade or below, and a casual dress code.
メットライフについて
メットライフは、グローバルで展開する金融サービス企業です。個人および法人のお客さまがより確かな未来を築けるよう、保険、年金、社員福利厚生給付、資産管理のサポートを提供しています。1868年に創業したメットライフは、世界40以上の市場で事業を展開し、米国、アジア、中南米、ヨーロッパ、中東において業界をリードしています。
メットライフは、New Frontier戦略の一環として、AIを活用し、人を中心に据えた未来を築いています。私たちは、AIを活用して顧客へのサービス向上、地域社会への支援、そして働き方の変革を推進していく中で、好奇心、適応力、そして成長意欲を持つ人材を求めています。メットライフにおいて、AIは、人間の判断力、創造性、継続的な改善を支える責任あるパートナーであり、信頼、インクルージョン、そして長期的な価値の構築に貢献しています。
メットライフ生命は、日本初の外資系生命保険会社として、1973年2月に国内での営業を開始しました。当社のPurpose「ともに歩んでゆく。よりたしかな未来に向けて。」は、メットライフが誇るグローバルネットワークと世界中のベストプラクティスを活かし、お客さまのニーズに応え、地域社会との信頼関係を築くという信念を表しています。
About MetLife
MetLife Inc., through its subsidiaries and affiliates (MetLife), is one of the world's leading financial services companies, providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to help individual and institutional customers build a more confident future. Founded in 1868, MetLife has operations in more than 40 markets globally and holds leading positions in the United States, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We're looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
MetLife Japan began operations in February 1973 as Japan's first foreign-owned life insurance company. Our purpose, "Always with you, building a more confident future," encapsulates our strong commitment to leveraging our global network and best practices worldwide to stand with our customers and build trust with our communities.
#BI-Hybrid
Role Description
The Senior Server Engineer is a senior individual contributor responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of enterprise server infrastructure across Windows Server, Red Hat Linux, backup/recovery, and disaster recovery platforms. The role ensures platform stability, security, performance, lifecycle management, automation, troubleshooting, and operational excellence while partnering with application, security, operations, global technology, business, and vendor teams.
Key Responsibilities:
• Design, implement, operate, and improve enterprise server infrastructure across Windows Server, Red Hat Linux, VMware, Azure, storage, and backup/recovery platforms.
• Transform server operations, including provisioning, configuration, monitoring, maintenance, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and performance tuning through automation and self-service capabilities.
• Ensure platform security, availability, compliance, reliability, and operational performance.
• Provide advanced troubleshooting and escalation support for Windows/Linux servers, virtualization, Azure, storage, backup, networking, and application-hosting issues.
• Perform root cause analysis, drive problem management activities, and implement long-term corrective actions.
• Implement security hardening, compliance remediation, access control improvements, and audit actions in partnership with Security and Risk teams.
• Develop automation scripts, runbooks, workflows, technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and knowledge articles.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, operations, business, global technology, and vendor teams to deliver secure and reliable services.
General Responsibilities:
• Translate business and application requirements into secure, scalable infrastructure solutions that comply with local and global standards.
• Evaluate options, document risks, assumptions, and dependencies, maintain technical standards, and communicate requirements, design decisions, constraints, and trade-offs effectively.
• Collaborate successfully within global, multicultural, and cross-functional teams.
Candidate Qualifications:
Education:
• Bachelor of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
Experience:
• Minimum 7 years of server engineering experience.
• Hands-on expertise with Windows Server, Red Hat Linux, VMware, Azure, storage, backup/recovery, virtualization, automation (PowerShell, Bash), performance tuning, and security hardening.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and operational ownership skills .
Certification
• M S 365 Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate or equivalent server/infrastructure management certification.
Language
• Business proficiency in Japanese; English proficiency is an advantage.
福利厚生
メットライフ生命では、ワークライフバランスと社員の心身の健康を促進する福利厚生を提供しています。社員はフレックスタイム制度、年次有給休暇、特別連続休暇、リフレッシュ休暇等の休暇を利用できます。また、社会保険や団体保険の他、旅行や英会話教室で使える割引も提供しています。柔軟に働けるよう、オフィス勤務と在宅勤務を組み合わせた勤務形態の導入や、短時間勤務制度、また柔軟性のあるドレスコードなども設けています。
Benefits We Offer
MetLife Japan offers a comprehensive benefits package that promotes work-life balance and employee wellbeing. Employees can take advantage of flex time policy and a generous time-off policy, national holidays, annual paid leave, special consecutive leave, and refreshment leave. We also provide full social insurance coverage, a commuting expense reimbursement, group insurance, and discounts on travel and English language lessons. To support work flexibility, employees also have hybrid work options, shortened working hours for parents with children in third grade or below, and a casual dress code.
メットライフについて
メットライフは、グローバルで展開する金融サービス企業です。個人および法人のお客さまがより確かな未来を築けるよう、保険、年金、社員福利厚生給付、資産管理のサポートを提供しています。1868年に創業したメットライフは、世界40以上の市場で事業を展開し、米国、アジア、中南米、ヨーロッパ、中東において業界をリードしています。
メットライフは、New Frontier戦略の一環として、AIを活用し、人を中心に据えた未来を築いています。私たちは、AIを活用して顧客へのサービス向上、地域社会への支援、そして働き方の変革を推進していく中で、好奇心、適応力、そして成長意欲を持つ人材を求めています。メットライフにおいて、AIは、人間の判断力、創造性、継続的な改善を支える責任あるパートナーであり、信頼、インクルージョン、そして長期的な価値の構築に貢献しています。
メットライフ生命は、日本初の外資系生命保険会社として、1973年2月に国内での営業を開始しました。当社のPurpose「ともに歩んでゆく。よりたしかな未来に向けて。」は、メットライフが誇るグローバルネットワークと世界中のベストプラクティスを活かし、お客さまのニーズに応え、地域社会との信頼関係を築くという信念を表しています。
About MetLife
MetLife Inc., through its subsidiaries and affiliates (MetLife), is one of the world's leading financial services companies, providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to help individual and institutional customers build a more confident future. Founded in 1868, MetLife has operations in more than 40 markets globally and holds leading positions in the United States, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We're looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
MetLife Japan began operations in February 1973 as Japan's first foreign-owned life insurance company. Our purpose, "Always with you, building a more confident future," encapsulates our strong commitment to leveraging our global network and best practices worldwide to stand with our customers and build trust with our communities.
#BI-Hybrid
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