Staff Network Systems Engineer - Network Automation & DevOps
PlayStation Global10 hours ago
Dublin, IrelandStaff+
Base Salary
$109k - $164k/yr
Responsibilities
- Assess the network estate, toolchain, and workflows to identify configuration variance, manual effort, and change risk.
- Establish Infrastructure as Code standards covering source of truth, configuration, source control, review, testing, release governance, and credential handling.
- Build reusable, idempotent network automation using Python, Go, Terraform, Ansible, APIs, and configuration-management tooling.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines with linting, testing, intended-state validation, drift detection, policy checks, approvals, controlled rollout, and rollback capabilities.
- Partner with engineering, architecture, security, and platform teams on network implementations, reference architectures, standards, lifecycle plans, and service roadmaps.
- Lead migration of existing services into the automated model while supporting complex changes, troubleshooting, business-as-usual operations, and major incidents.
- Participate in technical authority and design-review forums, mentor engineers, and establish sustainable team-wide automation practices.
Requirements
- Strong experience modernizing network infrastructure through automation or Infrastructure as Code in a large, complex production environment.
- Strong software-engineering skills in Python, Go, or comparable object-oriented languages, including structured data, API integration, testing, error handling, maintainable code, and documentation.
- Practical experience with Terraform, Ansible, or comparable tooling for reusable, idempotent automation and controlled infrastructure delivery.
- Strong knowledge of Git, pull-request workflows, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, release controls, policy enforcement, and secrets management.
- Deep enterprise networking knowledge across routing, switching, wireless, resilient design, network access control, and secure remote connectivity.
- Advanced experience with Juniper Mist, EX Series, and Junos or equivalent platform expertise.
- Expert troubleshooting and engineering judgment, including support for operational delivery, complex changes, major incidents, and root-cause improvement.
- Staff-level influence and communication skills, including technical direction, consensus building, governance participation, and engineer development.
- Desirable experience includes network APIs and data models; GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Actions; Azure or AWS networking; enterprise authentication; Zero Trust principles; network observability; architecture governance; strategic vendor engagement; and globally delivered service operations.
- Experience in high-availability gaming, digital-media, creative, or similarly demanding production environments is desirable.
Benefits
- Eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package, including paid time off, a wellness program, and employee discounts on Sony products.
- May be eligible for a bonus package.
- Hybrid working policy applies, with base pay varying according to the policy and location.
- Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for new employees.