Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps, Infrastructure)

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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.

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At PlayStation, we're leading the revolution in cloud gaming as we push the boundaries of what's possible! Would you like to use your skills, time, and passion for meaningful projects that are building the future? We're looking for a Platform Engineer with proven experience in modern software delivery and loves crafting efficient, flexible and low friction workflows to build, release and deliver software. If that sounds like something you would love to do, we want to hear from you! Come help us deliver a unique gaming experience to millions of players!

Responsibilities

• Development and Implementation of our internal infrastructure platform.

• Onboarding and Integration of Services onto our Kubernetes platform.

• Collaborating closely with the Platform and Release Engineering Team as well as other teams on release process and automation.

• Improving Reliability, Performance and Feature Set of the infrastructure platform based on internal customer needs.

• Identifying and diagnosing issues in deployments together with software development teams.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience with creating, implementing and executing Software Development Processes.

• Proven knowledge in working with bare metal systems on premise or in hybrid cloud environments.

• Deep understanding of build systems for applications written in Java, JavaScript, C++, Python and Golang.

Skills & Knowledge

• Experience with the Prometheus monitoring ecosystem.

• Experience with Hashicorp Vault or similar secret management systems.

• Experience with Ansible or similar workflow engines.

• Experience with Netbox or similar inventory system.

• Experience with Private Cloud and Public Cloud Environments (ideally Kubernetes, AWS).

Additional Attributes

• Strong communication skills.

• Customer-First Thinking.

• Experience with collaboration in a distributed team across multiple timezones.

• High energy and driven to positively impact the business.

• Being a Contributor to Open Source Software is a plus.

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

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