Staff Network Automation Engineer - IaC & DevOps

SportsTechJobs; Dublin; Remote; EUR 98,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-tier benefits package

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts on Sony products

Bonus package possible

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Dublin is seeking a Staff Network Systems Engineer to drive automation of our global network infrastructure. You will shape an Infrastructure as Code model, build reusable automation, and help scale our enterprise network delivery across teams.

You will work across engineering, security and architecture, mentor engineers, and lead complex changes and incidents while ensuring secure, auditable, and well-documented deployments.

Qualifications

• A strong track record of modernising network infrastructure through automation or Infrastructure as Code in a large, complex production environment.
• Strong software-engineering skills in Python and Go, including maintainable code, APIs, testing, error handling and documentation.
• Practical experience with Terraform, Ansible or comparable tooling, including reusable, idempotent automation components and controlled infrastructure delivery.
• Strong working knowledge of Git, pull-request workflows, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, release controls, policy enforcement and secrets management.
• Deep enterprise networking knowledge across routing, switching, wireless, NAC and secure remote connectivity, together with Juniper Mist, EX Series and Junos experience or equivalent platform expertise.
• Expert troubleshooting and engineering judgement, with experience supporting operational delivery, complex changes, major incidents and root-cause improvement.
• Staff-level influence and communication skills, including shaping technical direction across teams, building consensus, contributing to governance forums and developing other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Assess the network estate, toolchain and operational workflows; identify sources of configuration variance, manual effort and change risk; and help define a phased modernisation roadmap.
• Establish the Infrastructure as Code operating model, including the authoritative source of truth, configuration standards, source control, peer review, testing, release governance and secure handling of credentials.
• Build reusable automation using object-oriented or comparable programming languages such as Python and Go (Golang), together with Terraform, Ansible, APIs and configuration-management tooling.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines with automated linting, testing, intended-state validation, drift detection, policy checks, approvals, controlled rollout and reliable rollback patterns.
• Partner with engineering, architecture and security teams to translate network intent into version-controlled implementations and influence reference architectures, standards, lifecycle plans and service roadmaps.
• Lead the safe migration of existing services into the automated model while remaining hands-on during complex delivery, business-as-usual operations, critical changes, troubleshooting and major incidents.
• Participate in technical authority and design-review forums, mentor engineers, and ensure automation becomes a sustainable team capability rather than knowledge held by a single specialist.

Skills

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Python

Go

REST APIs

CI/CD

Networking

Junos

Troubleshooting

Communication

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

GitHub Enterprise

GitHub Actions

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Dublin is seeking a Staff Network Systems Engineer to drive automation of our global network infrastructure. You will shape an Infrastructure as Code model, build reusable automation, and help scale our enterprise network delivery across teams.

You will work across engineering, security and architecture, mentor engineers, and lead complex changes and incidents while ensuring secure, auditable, and well-documented deployments.