Kubernetes Platform Engineer - Global Scale & Automation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Ireland is hiring a Kubernetes Platform Engineer to design and build Kubernetes controllers and operators, enabling reliable distribution across hybrid cloud and on-premises deployments. You will work with Go, CRDs, and controller-runtime to automate lifecycle and scaling.

Join a global team delivering PlayStation cloud services at scale, focused on reliability, observability, and automation.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of Kubernetes architecture, lifecycle and core concepts, including workloads running across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Experience developing software in Go or another modern programming language, with an interest in Go development.
• Experience building software for Linux-based environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes development, including controllers, operators, or Kubernetes APIs.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a desire to learn new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Kubernetes controllers and operators that automate the lifecycle of platform services.
• Contribute to the development of our global workload placement system, enabling intelligent scheduling across Kubernetes clusters running in both public cloud and on-premises data centers.
• Develop Kubernetes APIs and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) that provide clean, maintainable interfaces for platform capabilities.
• Build and maintain reconciliation logic that safely manages distributed system state.
• Develop controllers and operators that automate provisioning, configuration, upgrades, and lifecycle management of Kubernetes-based platform components deployed across hybrid cloud environments.
• Work closely with platform and service teams to build automation that simplifies operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, observability, and maintainability of the platform through thoughtful engineering and continuous improvement.
• Investigate production issues and participate in root cause analysis to improve platform reliability.

Skills

Kubernetes

Go programming

Linux environments

Kubernetes controllers

Kubernetes APIs

Software engineering

Problem solving

Communication skills

Tools

controller-runtime

Kubebuilder

CRDs

CEL rules

Kubernetes API extensions

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Ireland is hiring a Kubernetes Platform Engineer to design and build Kubernetes controllers and operators, enabling reliable distribution across hybrid cloud and on-premises deployments. You will work with Go, CRDs, and controller-runtime to automate lifecycle and scaling.

Join a global team delivering PlayStation cloud services at scale, focused on reliability, observability, and automation.