Staff Network Automation Engineer

Devopsroles; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 97,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts on Sony products

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Staff Network Systems Engineer to drive transition to standardised, automated network operations and Infrastructure as Code. You will establish authoritative sources of truth, orchestrate automated validation and delivery pipelines, and reduce configuration drift across global networks.

In this role you will collaborate with engineering, architecture and security teams, lead complex deliveries, and mentor engineers while maintaining hands-on delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience modernising network infrastructure through automation or Infrastructure as Code in a large, complex production environment.
• Strong software-engineering skills in Python and Go (Golang), including maintainable code, structured data, API integration and testing.
• Practical experience with Terraform, Ansible or comparable tooling, including idempotent automation components and controlled infrastructure delivery.
• Strong working knowledge of Git, PR workflows, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, release controls and secrets management.
• Deep enterprise networking knowledge across routing, switching, wireless, secure remote connectivity, with Juniper Mist/EX/Junos expertise or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Assess the network estate, toolchain and workflows; identify variance, manual effort and risk; help define a modernisation roadmap.
• Establish the Infrastructure as Code operating model with source of truth, standards, controls and secure credentials handling.
• Build reusable automation using Python/Go plus Terraform, Ansible, APIs and config-management tooling.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines with linting, testing, drift detection, policy checks, approvals and safe rollbacks.
• Partner with engineering, architecture and security to translate network intent into version-controlled implementations.

Skills

Network automation

Infrastructure as Code

Python

Go

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Git workflows

Junos / Juniper networking

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

APIs

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Staff Network Systems Engineer to drive transition to standardised, automated network operations and Infrastructure as Code. You will establish authoritative sources of truth, orchestrate automated validation and delivery pipelines, and reduce configuration drift across global networks.

In this role you will collaborate with engineering, architecture and security teams, lead complex deliveries, and mentor engineers while maintaining hands-on delivery.