About the Role
Senior Service Reliability Engineer in the Gaming, Developer & Future Technology Group (GDFT) at Sony Interactive Entertainment, focusing on cloud gaming and operational stability.
Responsibilities
- 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 organisation
- Represent the operational scalability of solutions in the wider division
- Lead small-scale projects from inception to implementation
- Design platform-wide solutions and provide technical leadership during their implementation
- Demonstrate a high-level of organizational skills and initiative in the role
Requirements
- 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 on-call 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
- 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), Software performance analysis and load testing
Nice to Have
- QA or SDET experience: a plus
Additional Information
- Available to be scheduled in on-call rotation
