Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Cloud Gaming Scale

PlayStation; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Senior Service Reliability Engineer to strengthen production stability and scale across cloud gaming platforms. You will lead reliability initiatives, collaborate with SRE and software teams, and mentor junior staff while shaping operational practices for complex systems.

The role emphasizes ownership of production reliability, proactive issue management, and close involvement in the software development lifecycle to ensure high availability and

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software development and/or Linux sysadmin roles.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• On-call availability required.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability and scalability improvements.
• Define KPIs, processes, and drive continuous improvement.
• Influence architecture and mentor junior SRE staff.
• Represent SRE across the organization.
• Lead small projects from inception to implementation.
• Design platform-wide solutions and provide technical leadership.

Skills

Linux Production Systems Engineer

Python

Bash

Go

Java

C++

Rust

Distributed data storage

NoSQL at scale

Data aggregation (ElasticSearch/Kafka)

RDBMS HA (PostgreSQL/MySQL)

Monitoring/alerting (Prometheus, Graf 

Kubernetes

AWS

Software distribution

Configuration management (Ansible,Salt

Performance analysis/load testing

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Linux tooling

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Senior Service Reliability Engineer to strengthen production stability and scale across cloud gaming platforms. You will lead reliability initiatives, collaborate with SRE and software teams, and mentor junior staff while shaping operational practices for complex systems.

The role emphasizes ownership of production reliability, proactive issue management, and close involvement in the software development lifecycle to ensure high availability and