Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Activision; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and vacation

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health programs

Job summary

Activision is seeking an Associate Site Reliability Engineer in Santa Monica, CA. This entry-level role involves monitoring service health, responding to alerts, and troubleshooting incidents in cloud environments.

The ideal candidate should have 1-3 years of experience in SRE or DevOps and familiarity with Linux, Kubernetes, and scripting. They will support release reliability and contribute to automation efforts.

Benefits include medical insurance, 401(k) company match, and various well-being programs.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Linux, HTTP, DNS, and containers.
• Exposure to monitoring, logs, and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Monitor service health and participate in incident response.
• Investigate reliability issues across multiple environments.
• Build and maintain operational documentation and dashboards.
• Support release reliability by validating changes and rollbacks.
• Participate in post-incident follow-ups and corrective actions.

Skills

SRE experience

DevOps knowledge

Familiarity with Kubernetes

Bash scripting

Python scripting

Troubleshooting skills

Clear communication

Job description

Job Title

Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Reporting To

Manager, Engineering

Department

Marketing Technology

Location

Santa Monica, CA

Overview

The Associate Site Reliability Engineer helps keep Marketing Technology services reliable, observable, and supportable in production. This role is designed as an entry‑level‑to‑early‑career SRE position, but grounded in the type of operational work seen in the team today: incident triage, troubleshooting infrastructure and application behavior, improving observability, and reducing toil through automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor service health, respond to alerts, and participate in incident response for cloud and application environments.
• Investigate reliability issues across Kubernetes, networking, DNS, application runtime behavior, and dependent services, escalating when appropriate.
• Build and maintain dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and operational documentation that improve detection and recovery speed.
• Contribute small automations and scripts that reduce repetitive operational work and improve environment hygiene.
• Support release and deployment reliability by validating changes, helping with rollback readiness, and improving change safety.
• Participate in post‑incident follow‑up and help close corrective actions that prevent recurrence.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or software engineering internships / early‑career roles.
• Familiarity with Linux, HTTP, DNS, containers, Kubernetes, Git‑based workflows, and scripting in Bash, Python, or similar languages.
• Exposure to monitoring, logs, metrics, dashboards, and incident management practices.
• Strong troubleshooting mindset, clear communication, and willingness to learn in a production‑support environment.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance.
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching.
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave.
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others.
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to [e-mail].