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Data Center Infrastructure Tools and Monitoring Engineer

Aliso Viejo, CA

Sony Interactive Entertainment is looking for a hard-working Data Center Infrastructure Tools and Monitoring Engineer. This position is for a candidate who will work within the Data Center Operations team collaborating with the System Engineering and Network Operations teams on developing, implementing and maintaining new and existing tooling, reporting, monitoring and alerting in order to support our Production Infrastructure.

If this sounds like something you would love to do, we want to hear from you! Come help us build an extraordinary network capable of delivering fun and unique gaming experiences to millions of players! At PlayStation, we are 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 significant projects that are building the future?

Key Responsibilities:

Design and deliver reliable infrastructure, tools, and processes around the monitoring and maintenance of Data Center Operations
Familiarity of existing tools and creating new tooling to support the Operations team such as:
Hardware monitoring
Environmental Power, Temperature and Humidity monitoring
Manifest ingestion / validation service / asset management
Firmware management
JIRA Workflow automation (Procurement, Provisioning, Maintenance)
Update tools via regular improvement and build continuous integration, development, and routine deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
Maintain monitoring, metrics & reporting systems for fine-grained historical observability and practical alerting
Identify any manual processes and encourage building automated processes wherever possible
Lead collaborator’s expectations and feedback

Requirements:

BA degree or equivalent experience
1-3 years working in a production infrastructure environment
Knowledge and hands-on experience with asset management and reporting
Knowledge of various aspects of CI/CD practices: Infrastructure Automation, Application Build and Deployment Automation using various leading tools in the market including GitLab and Atlassian products
Knowledge and hands-on experience of monitoring tools like Prometheus/Grafana, Dashboard and Plugins development
Solid understanding of Python & Ansible scripting, JIRA, Go Language, Helm, Typescript, NodeJS, REST API, WebSocket
Experience in Agile Software Development, while working in a multi-functional Team
Experience writing clean, documented and maintainable code with Unit tests
Knowledge and hands-on experience of Docker and Kubernetes for running container-based images, security/vulnerability, updates maintenance, their deployment via Kubernetes based services, Ingress Controller, DNS, networking management and solutions implementation with Kubernetes sidecars/jobs/cronjobs.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work with teams across various regions.
Strong presentation and architectural articulation skills to provide succinct diagrams, documentation and workflows as needed
High interest in technology
Highly refined organizational skills
Ability to lead multiple tasks at one time
High energy and a driven desire to positively impact the business

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