- Location
- United States, Los Angeles, CA · California, United States
- Department
- Santa Monica Studio
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Source
- Greenhouse
Description
Why PlayStation?
PlayStation 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 PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, 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.
Join the award-winning team that created God of War
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!
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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, PowerShell, 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
Preferred Experience
- Experience developing Windows GUI applications using C++ or Python
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Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights.
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. Click here to learn more.
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.
Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.
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.
