Site Reliability Engineer

As a part of Sony Computer Entertainment, the Gaming, Developer & Future Technology Group (GDFT) is leading the cloud gaming revolution, putting console-quality video games on any device, from TVs to consoles to mobile devices and beyond

Our Site 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 self-directed 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 software development lifecycle, ensuring the operational readiness and stability

You’ll lead team technical discussions, especially around ongoing improvements in Reliability and Scalability

Be involved in creating High Level Designs (HLDs) for new products and platforms

Mentor junior SRE staff and enable them for success

Lead incident response and post-mortem activities within your assigned service team

Work with other Engineers in a cross-functional team to prioritise reliability improvements to address technical debt and toil

Contribute to code to improve reliability

Implement automation to reduce ongoing toil

Minimum of 5+ 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

Configuration Management (ansible, saltstack, puppet, chef)

Kubernetes and/or AWS (deployment and management)

S/W Performance analysis and load testing (QA or SDET experience: a plus)

Bash, Go, Java, C++, or Rust

Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus, Grafana), and Incident Management toolsets

Development experience in one or more of the following programming languages:

Data Aggregation technologies. (ElasticSearch, Kafka)

Distributed data storage at scale (Hadoop, Ceph)

Scaling and running traditional RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) with High Availability

Python (preferred)

In addition, experience with at least 3 of the following topics:

Proficient as a Linux Production Systems Engineer, with experience managing large scale Web Services infrastructure

Software Distribution (Package management and distribution at scale)

NoSQL at scale (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra)