Sr DevOps Engineer

Why Play Station?

Play Station 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 Play Station family of products and services including Play Station®5, Play Station®4, Play Station®VR, Play Station®Plus, acclaimed Play Station software titles from Play Station Studios, and more.

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

You’re into technology – learning it, building it, teaching it. You’re someone who thrives on infrastructure and on helping people, making things happen for the team, making their work lives more efficient and easier, which allows them to perform at their peak.

You’re talented, really talented, and motivated, with tons of initiative. You get things done – and we leave you alone to do them. Sound interesting? Give us a shout!

• Solve problems within existing pipelines, focusing on simple and robust solutions
• Help plan, configure, and deploy various open source and proprietary services on Linux and Windows such as:
  Perforce, Ceph, Nginx, Apache, Influxdb, Telegraf, Traefik, Sentry on premise, as well as new services to support the development team
• Support build release and patching pipeline, build deployment tool suite, code integration utilities, pre-commit testing utilities, and packaging pipeline
• Upgrade, evolve, and maintain existing infrastructure, including Jenkins server configurations and scripts and build scripts
• Interface and help support everyone on the team: get to the bottom of simple and complex problems and provide direct solutions
• Collaborate with IT to ensure a broad understanding of approaches and solutions
• Write clear, maintainable, portable, and highly functional scripts and code
• Test and document work produced
• Create and manage complex build branching schemes
• Implement and maintain effective reporting systems to facilitate team needs

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• 5+ years professional experience
• Very strong Linux System Administration skills
• Familiar with Windows system administration
• Experience with AWS as well as on premises deployments
• Proficient in a majority of the following:
  Docker, Git, Perforce, Jira, REST API’s, Python, C++, Qt, Power Shell, Puppet, automated testing structures and processes, build and/or content cooking pipelines
• Enthusiasm and initiative
• Personable: gets along well with everyone; has “I can help” attitude
• Excellent spoken and written communication
• Commitment to code quality, documentation, and sound testing procedures

• Experience developing Windows GUI applications using C++ or Python

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At SIE, working with our partners, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the individual base pay range may vary based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

In addition, this role is eligible for benefit offerings that include medical, dental, and vision.  to learn more.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below, this is an hourly rate.

$67.99 — $101.92 USD

Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.

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

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