Senior Software Engineer-DevOps

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?
Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the Play Station brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world.

Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the Play Station brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
This post is describing an existing vacancy  part of the Foundational Systems and Experiences Engineering (FSEE) organization, this role contributes directly and takes ownership of the infrastructure, tooling, and automation that empower Play Station developers worldwide. Our team builds and maintains the systems that support build, test, and release workflows across console, mobile, web, and PC platforms. The ideal candidate is passionate about developer productivity, highly collaborative, and motivated by solving complex technical problems that enable development teams to deliver exceptional experiences to Play Station users.
This position offers the opportunity to work at global scale, partnering with engineering, QA, operations, and platform teams to enhance delivery pipelines, streamline development processes, and ensure the reliability, security, and scalability of the platforms that power the Play Station ecosystem, while influencing technical direction within their domain.
Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain software build and release pipelines that support delivery across Play Station consoles, Web, Mobile, and PC platforms.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to enable consistent, secure, and scalable deployments.
• Build internal tools and applications that streamline development workflows and accelerate software delivery.
• Engage closely with dependent engineering, QA, and operations teams to understand requirements, remove obstacles, and ensure smooth end-to-end delivery, often driving alignment across teams.
• Monitor and analyze telemetry (metrics, logs, traces) to detect issues, identify improvement opportunities, and lead efforts to improve operational excellence across CI/CD systems and tools.
• Develop dashboards and visualizations to communicate system performance, reliability, and pipeline health.
• Identify and resolve CI/CD challenges proactively, providing support to development teams and continually improving system resilience.
• Produce clear, high-quality documentation including tutorials, how-to guides, references, and conceptual explanations for infrastructure, pipelines, and internally developed tools.
• Collaborate with globally distributed team members and developers across all SIE offices to design and deliver scalable Play Station software experiences.
• Work across diverse web technology stacks and environments, adapting solutions to multiple platforms and application architectures, and guiding best practices where appropriate.

Skills & Qualifications
Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming principles.
• Knowledge of fundamental data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with Git and Git Hub for source control and workflow management.
• Experience developing with JavaScript and/or Type Script.
• Familiarity with modern web technologies, package managers, and frameworks.
• Experience with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Comfort working within Linux environments and command-line tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins or Git Hub Actions.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience integrating or developing against RESTful APIs.
• Understanding of Linux and Windows operating system fundamentals.
• Familiarity…