Staff Network Automation & IaC Engineer

Sony Playstation; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 97,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Ireland seeks a Staff Network Systems Engineer to lead the modernization of our global network infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, automation, and version‑controlled practices.

You will build reusable automation with Python and Go, implement Terraform and Ansible, develop CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and validation, and mentor engineers while safeguarding changes across enterprise networks.

Qualifications

• Modernising network infrastructure through automation in a large production environment.
• Strong Python and Go programming with maintainable code and API integration.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible and comparable tooling.
• Solid knowledge of Git, PR workflows, CI/CD, automated testing and secrets management.
• Extensive enterprise networking knowledge and incident handling experience.
• Ability to influence across teams and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Assess network estate, identify variance, and define a phased modernisation roadmap.
• Establish the IaC operating model with source control, review, testing and secure credentials.
• Build automation using Python/Go, Terraform, Ansible, APIs and config management tools.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines with linting, testing, validation, drift detection and rollback.
• Translate network intent into version‑controlled implementations and influence architectures.
• Lead migration of services to the automated model while remaining hands‑on.
• Participate in design reviews, mentor engineers and grow automation capabilities.

Skills

Python

Go

Infrastructure as Code

Network automation

Engineering judgement

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

GitHub Enterprise

GitHub Actions

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in Ireland seeks a Staff Network Systems Engineer to lead the modernization of our global network infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, automation, and version‑controlled practices.

You will build reusable automation with Python and Go, implement Terraform and Ansible, develop CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and validation, and mentor engineers while safeguarding changes across enterprise networks.