Senior Service Reliability Engineer (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Senior Service Reliability Engineer (Gamedev): Taking ownership of production, production code quality, and deployments with an accent on overall stability of the gaming service. Focus on influencing design and operational decisions, improving reliability and scalability of the solutions.

Company

hirify.global is a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services.

What you will do

• Take a leadership role in ongoing improvements in Reliability and Scalability.
• Define KPIs, processes and drive continuous improvement working closely with SRE Management.
• Influence the architecture and implementation of solutions within the division.
• Mentor more junior SRE staff and enable them for success.
• Design platform-wide solutions and provide technical leadership during their implementation.
• Represent the operational scalability of solutions in the wider division.

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 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.

Culture & Benefits

• Striving to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity.