Sony interactive entertainment global

Network Engineer

United States, Bellevue, WA Full Time

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.

Seeking a Senior Network Engineer with extensive experience in various network technologies to be part of our fast-paced, industry-leading team. Are you someone who is passionate about networking, infrastructure, and resolving complex issues? Do you thrive in high-performance production environments? If yes, come join our Studio IT Team and contribute to empowering the teams responsible for our world-class games!

Join Bungie as a Senior Network Engineer to develop, deploy, and uphold network solutions for our studio, datacenter, global partners, and customer systems. Collaborate with internal teams to enhance networking strategies and infrastructure at PlayStation alongside a skilled engineering group dedicated to advancing our technology and maintaining our position as a leading entertainment company.

Seasoned professional with dedication to excellence, mentoring capability, creative issue resolution, project management expertise, organization, and communication skills for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Engineer, implement, and maintain studio networks and multi-site environments

  • Build out and manage networking infrastructure (switching, routing, load balancing, security) to support various projects

  • Collaborate with team members to address complex issues and support lower tier support with customer concerns

  • Assist with ongoing training for our IT Support team and cross training for IT Engineering team members

  • Research, selection, planning, and implementation of new technologies to support scaling of applications to meet customer and business needs

  • Preserve connections in production data center and multi-site environments

  • Develop tools and scripts to assist with routine maintenance tasks

  • Support the implementation of architectural changes

  • Support for all related products and triage any issues that come up

  • Maintain documentation of systems and processes

  • Support customer-facing datacenter infrastructure and compute

  • Address and solve intricate network and infrastructure problems, collaborating with support on customer concerns

  • Collaborate with InfoSec teams to ensure infrastructure and designs align with security requirements

  • Offer after-hours support for resolving critical issues as the final point of contact for sub-discipline related matters

Required Skills

  • Networking Administration at scale, experience with management, security guidelines, automation and tooling, performance tuning, and hardware troubleshooting

  • Engineering network environments at scale, including redundancy planning, network connectivity design, performance troubleshooting

  • Technical proficiency in most of these areas and products: network troubleshooting, OSPF, IPSEC, BGP, VXLAN

  • Working knowledge of core Internet protocols and services (e.g., IP, TCP, UDP, NTP, DNS, HTTP, SMTP, SSH, SMB, NFS, syslog) required

  • Collaborates with department or team leads to work on complex issues or projects within their platform ecosystem(s)

  • Managing medium complexity projects with multiple team members and collaborators

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to describe in detail the steps and approach taken to complete your tasks

  • Understanding datacenter and live production guidelines and experience in operating in live high availability customer-facing production environments

  • Working with vendors to select and test new technology, including sourcing demo and try buy gear

  • Experience working with different network hardware brands (Cisco, Juniper, A10, Arista, Palo Alto, etc.)

  • Experience configuring network load balancers

  • Knowledge/understanding of how PKI infrastructure works, certificate creation/installation/lifecycle management

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Experience with different storage hardware brands (NetApp, Pure, TrueNAS, Vast, etc.)

  • Information security experience

  • Container / Kubernetes experience

  • Experience with AWS Networking

  • Working knowledge and experience with configuration/automation tools (Ansible, Chef, Salt, etc.)

We value talent, self-motivation, and team spirit. In turn, we provide an environment with a large degree of autonomy and opportunities for growth.

We offer accommodations for individuals with disabilities during the application process and job duties.

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, covered veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, 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.

We sincerely appreciate the time and effort you spent in contacting us and we thank you for your interest in PlayStation.

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.