Network Engineer

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 wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

This is a Hybrid role requiring an onsite presence 1-2 days per week in the Seattle area.

Seeking a Senior Network Engineer with extensive experience in various network technologies to be part of our fast-paced industry-leading team. Are you someone who is passionate about networking infrastructure and resolving complex issues Do you thrive in high-performance production environments If yes come join our Studio IT Team and contribute to empowering the teams responsible for our world-class games!

Join Bungie as a Senior Network Engineer to develop deploy and uphold network solutions for our studio datacenter global partners and customer systems. Collaborate with internal teams to enhance networking strategies and infrastructure at PlayStation alongside a skilled engineering group dedicated to advancing our technology and maintaining our position as a leading entertainment company.

Seasoned professional with dedication to excellence mentoring capability creative issue resolution project management expertise organization and communication skills for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Engineer implement and maintain studio networks and multi-site environments

• Build out and manage networking infrastructure (switching routing load balancing security) to support various projects

• Collaborate with team members to address complex issues and support lower tier support with customer concerns

• Assist with ongoing training for our IT Support team and cross training for IT Engineering team members

• Research selection planning and implementation of new technologies to support scaling of applications to meet customer and business needs

• Preserve connections in production data center and multi-site environments

• Develop tools and scripts to assist with routine maintenance tasks

• Support the implementation of architectural changes

• Support for all related products and triage any issues that come up

• Maintain documentation of systems and processes

• Support customer-facing datacenter infrastructure and compute

• Address and solve intricate network and infrastructure problems collaborating with support on customer concerns

• Collaborate with InfoSec teams to ensure infrastructure and designs align with security requirements

• Offer after-hours support for resolving critical issues as the final point of contact for sub-discipline related matters

Required Skills

• Networking Administration at scale experience with management security guidelines automation and tooling performance tuning and hardware troubleshooting

• Engineering network environments at scale including redundancy planning network connectivity design performance troubleshooting

• Technical proficiency in most of these areas and products: network troubleshooting OSPF IPSEC BGP VXLAN

• Working knowledge of core Internet protocols and services (e.g. IP TCP UDP NTP DNS HTTP SMTP SSH SMB NFS syslog) required

• Collaborates with department or team leads to work on complex issues or projects within their platform ecosystem(s)

• Managing medium complexity projects with multiple team members and collaborators

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to describe in detail the steps and approach taken to complete your tasks

• Understanding datacenter and live production guidelines and experience in operating in live high availability customer-facing production environments

• Working with vendors to select and test new technology including sourcing demo and try buy gear

• Experience working with different network hardware brands (Cisco Juniper A10 Arista Palo Alto etc.)

• Experience configuring network load balancers

• Knowledge/understanding of how PKI infrastructure works certificate creation/installation/lifecycle management

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with different storage hardware brands (NetApp Pure TrueNAS Vast etc.)

• Information security experience

• Container / Kubernetes experience

• Experience with AWS Networking

• Working knowledge and experience with configuration/automation tools (Ansible Chef Salt etc.)

We value talent self-motivation and team turn we provide an environment with a large degree of autonomy and opportunities for growth.

We offer accommodations for individuals with disabilities during the application process and job duties.

We sincerely appreciate the time and effort you spent in contacting us and we thank you for your interest in PlayStation.

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