Senior Site Reliability Engineer

OverviewPlayStation 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.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.ResponsibilitiesThis section is integrated into the overview as the role’s scope includes maintaining availability and resilience of key platform experiences, enabling service teams to deploy new products and technical features, and driving improvements in processes and technology to support millions of users.We are looking forMore than 5 years of experience with Cloud Technologies preferably with AWS, container orchestration, building and managing platform with Kubernetes in production, supporting production workloadOperate with a security-minded approach across application and infrastructure lifecyclesStrong Infrastructure as Code experience with CloudFormation and/or TerraformHands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technology like KubernetesExpert level experience in service mesh design and implementation including IstioExpert level knowledge and hands-on implementation experience with Kubernetes, specifically with EKSExperience with large-scale microservice architectures and moving monoliths to microservicesExtensive experience with serverless technologies like AWS LambdaExperience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitHub ActionsProficiency in scripting languages such as Go, Python, or ShellStrong desire to use configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or SaltSolid understanding of Linux, kernels, and networkingFundamental networking and cloud networking conceptsOn-call rotation experience and production supportStrong troubleshooting skills across Application, Database, Linux, Container, Networking, Storage, and Access ControlAdditional skillsExperience with hosting and CDN technologies like Akamai and CloudflareExperience with cybersecurity, threat detection and mitigation with AkamaiMonitoring and alerting solutions including Datadog, Prometheus and GrafanaLogging and log aggregation solutions like Splunk, ElasticSearch and AWS CloudWatch LogsTracing and debugging across container, network, storage, and compute layersCertifications in Linux, AWS, Docker, KubernetesPlease refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights.At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including market benchmarks and geographic location. The base pay range may vary with our hybrid working policy and individual factors such as knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role is eligible for SIE’s benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, wellness program and employee discounts for Sony products. This role may be eligible for a bonus. The estimated base pay range for this role is USD 172,100 — 258,100.Equal Opportunity StatementSony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity and gender expression and gender reassignment), race, 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.PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-09-17