Release Engineer

Job Description

SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT

Future Technology Group (FTG)

Release Engineer (DevOps)

Austin, TX

At PlayStation, we're leading the revolution in cloud gaming as we push the boundaries of what's possible! Would you like to use your skills, time, and passion on meaningful projects that are building the future? We're looking for engineers who want to make a difference, love automating everything they can get their hands on, and enjoy working with creative, intelligent and collaborative teammates. If that sounds like something you would love to do, we want to hear from you! Come help us build a world class cloud platform capable of delivering fun and unique gaming experiences to millions of players!

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Build, scale, automate, and secure our infrastructure, focusing specifically on the Linux environment.
- Support software development with a special focus on the pieces between the development of software and deploying it to production.
- Balance the needs of security, maintainability, robustness, scalability, reproducibility, ease of debugging, and service transparency.
- Develop and implement ready-to-use CI/CD pipelines in GitLab.
- Integrate external services into CI/CD pipelines and workflows.
- Increase deployment velocity and confidence.
- Support engineers with solving problems in their build, test and release pipelines.
- Create and manage containers, VMs, and bare metal images.
- Work in cross-functional development teams to deliver quality software within scheduled time constraints.

REQUIREMENTS
- Strong understanding of Linux systems configuration and administration. You, Linux, and the command line are best of friends.
- Extensive experience writing Bash shell scripts. You can teach us a thing or two about it.
- You are very comfortable coding in Python and understand its strengths and weaknesses.
- Passion for build and release engineering, including CI/CD platforms like GitLab.
- Deep understanding of build systems for applications written in Java, JavaScript, C++, Python, and Golang
- Experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Native Infrastructure, and Public Cloud Environments (ideally AWS).
- Strong history of taking ownership and successfully delivering results.
- You automate things rather than doing them twice.
- Ambiguity doesn't scare you. You see it as an opportunity to define the future.
- B.S. in Computer Science or related technical field (or equivalent work experience).

ADDITIONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Strong communication skills.
- Customer-First Thinking
- Experience with GitOps Continuous Deployment model (ArgoCD, FluxCD).
- Experience with Agile and DevOps.
- Contributor to Open Source Software is a plus.
- Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and playing games

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rv7x0n-18-219-63-90-42 in your application.