Senior Site Reliability Engineer

PlayStation; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 172,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

PlayStation is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their operations team in San Diego. This role focuses on maintaining and enhancing cloud technologies, ensuring user experience, and driving technical initiatives. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Kubernetes, cloud security, and container orchestration, with a proven history of improving operational processes.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Wellness program

Employee discounts for Sony products

Bonus package eligibility

Qualifications

• Over 5 years of experience with Cloud Technologies, preferably with AWS.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Strong understanding of Linux, kernel, and networking protocols.

Responsibilities

• Maintain key user experiences on the platform, ensuring availability and resilience.
• Drive and lead technical initiatives to improve processes and technology.
• Support production environments and troubleshoot at various levels.

Skills

Cloud Technologies

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Containerization

Microservices Architecture

CI/CD

Linux

Troubleshooting

Tools

AWS

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Splunk

Job description

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation5, PlayStation4, PlayStationVR, PlayStationPlus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

Senior SRE -San Diego

As a member of the operations SRE team within the platform technology group, you will carry the responsibility of keeping key user experiences on the platform available, resilient, and impactful, while continually enabling our service teams to deliver new and exciting products and technical features. Our team strives to iteratively learn, improve and automate our processes every single day, which continually sets the standard for operational excellence within our organization. You will be empowered to drive and lead technical initiatives, helping identify and proactively drive improvements in both process and technology supporting millions of users.

We are looking for

• More than 5 years of experience with Cloud Technologies preferably with AWS, Container orchestration, building and managing platform with kubernetes in production, supporting production workload
• Person who operates with mindset where Security should be adopted on various levels of application and infrastructure lifecycle
• Person with high desire for Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation and or Terraform
• Hands-on working experience with containerization and orchestration technology like Kubernetes
• Expert level experience on service mesh design and implementation including Istio service mesh
• Expert level knowledge and hands on implementation experience with Kubernetes, specifically with EKS
• Good experience with large scale microservice architecture and also moving monolith to microservices
• Extensive working experience with Serverless Technology like AWS lambda
• Everyday working experience and desire for CI/CD with one of Jenkins, ArgoCD, Github Actions
• Proficient with one of scripting language including Go, Python and or Shell
• High desire to use Config Management with one of Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt etc
• Strong understanding of Linux, kernel and networking protocol
• Understanding of networking basics and cloud networking concepts
• Who has done On Call Rotation and supported production environments
• Very good at troubleshooting on various levels including Application, Database, Linux, Container, Networking, Storage, Access Control

Nice to have

• Experience with hosting and CDN technologies like Akamai and Cloudflare
• Experience with Cyber Security, threat detection and mitigation with Akamai
• Monitoring and Alerting solutions including Datadog, Prometheus and Grafana
• Logging and log aggregation solutions like Splunk, ElasticSearch and AWS CloudWatch Logs
• Tracing & debugging on various level including container, network, storage, compute
• Certifications in Linux, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes

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Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below. $172,100 — $258,100 USD

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

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