Senior Service Reliability Engineer
Senior Service Reliability Engineer
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Job Description
Why PlayStation
PlayStation isnt just the Best Place to Play its also the Best Place to Work. Today were 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 whollyowned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
As a part of Sony Interactive Entertainment the Future Technology Group (FTG) is leading the cloud gaming revolution putting consolequality video games on any device from TVs to consoles to mobile devices and beyond.
Our Service Reliability Engineering team plays a significant role in delivering on the promise of a great cloud gaming experience to our customers. We do this by influencing design and operational decisions towards the overall stability of the gaming service. Our SREs focus on three main things: overall ownership of production production code quality and deployments. The successful candidate will be selfdirected and able to participate in the way we make decisions at different levels.
We expect our SREs to have opinions on the state of our service and provide critical feedback during different phases of the operational lifecycle. We are engaged throughout the S/W development lifecycle ensuring the operational readiness and stability.
What were looking for:
- Minimum of 7 years working experience in Software Development and/or Linux Systems Administration role.
- Strong interpersonal written and verbal communication skills.
- Available to be scheduled in oncall rotation.
- Proficient as a Linux Production Systems Engineer with experience managing large scale Web Services infrastructure.
- Development experience in one or more of the following programming languages:
- Python (preferred)
- Bash Go Java C or Rust
- In addition experience with at least 3 of the following topics:
- Distributed data storage at scale (Hadoop Ceph)
- NoSQL at scale (MongoDB Redis Cassandra)
- Data Aggregation technologies. (ElasticSearch Kafka)
- Scaling and running traditional RDBMS (PostgreSQL MySQL) with High Availability
- Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus Grafana) and Incident Management toolsets
- Kubernetes and/or AWS (deployment and management)
- Software Distribution (Package management and distribution at scale)
- Configuration Management (ansible saltstack puppet chef)
- S/W Performance analysis and load testing (QA or SDET experience: a plus)
What youll be doing:
- Taking a leadership role in ongoing improvements in Reliability and Scalability
- Work closely with SRE Management to define KPIs processes and drive continuous improvement
- Influence the architecture and implementation of solutions within the division
- Mentor more junior SRE staff and enable them for success
- Act as a voice to represent SRE in the wider organization
- Represent the operational scalability of solutions in the wider division
- Lead smallscale projects from inception to implementation
- Design platformwide solutions and provide technical leadership during their implementation
- Demonstrate a highlevel of organizational skills and initiative in the role
Benefits:
- Salary:Annual salary paid across 12 month (different to other parts of Germany)
- Bonus:Discretionary bonus target level based on position level
- Pension:Defined benefit provided by HDI 35 per month after successfully passing the probation period
- Insurances:Accident insurance
- Flexible working:Employee can work from home in agreement with the manager
- Holidays:30 days 3 day Wellness Break
- Health Insurance:30 EUR/month (insurance coverage up to 800 EUR)
- Capital forming benefit:40 per month
- Travel allowance:Public transportation allowance.
- Non contractual benefits:Games allocation Christmas closure days
- Other benefits:Long time service award. Free lunch Tuesdays and Thursdays soft drinks coffee fruit. Annual PS Membership Budget for personal development
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.
PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
