Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Activision Blizzard; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 42,058 - 77,806; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and vacation

Mental health & wellbeing programs

Fitness programs

Free and discounted games

Job summary

Activision Blizzard is hiring an Associate Site Reliability Engineer in Santa Monica, CA. You will ensure the reliability of Marketing Technology services and participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and improving observability.

This entry-level position offers opportunities to learn about cloud infrastructure and automation. We provide a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive workplace culture focused on diversity and inclusion.

Join us and make a difference at a leading gaming company!

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.
• Strong troubleshooting mindset, clear communication, and willingness to learn in a production‑support environment.

Responsibilities

• Monitor service health and participate in incident response.
• Investigate reliability issues across various environments.
• Build and maintain operational documentation and dashboards.
• Support release and deployment reliability.
• Participate in post‑incident follow‑up.

Skills

Linux

HTTP

DNS

Containers

Kubernetes

Git-based workflows

Bash scripting

Python scripting

Job description

Job Description

Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Requisition ID: R027696

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, grounded in the 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 such as 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.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part‑time and temporary full‑time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $30.53 - $56.48 Hourly. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.

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].