Principal Engineer, DevOps

$165,000 - $195,000/Yr

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Full-time - Senior

Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

About the position

Sony Corporation of America is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to join the Corporate Infosec Division. This role focuses on improving the technology stack and team dynamics within the organization, requiring a candidate who can creatively solve complex technical problems and work collaboratively with geographically distributed teams. The successful candidate will lead the strategy for automating and streamlining processes, ensuring the reliability of products and services across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy for a team of DevOps engineers in automating and streamlining processes.
• Perform R&D and update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art DevOps tools and best practices.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for CI/CD/CM tools.
• Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Containerize applications with Docker and orchestrate using Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with development teams to automate and streamline application deployment processes.
• Architect and implement metrics to increase transparency in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Help break down work and contribute to road mapping sessions.
• Identify, analyze, coordinate, and resolve environmental and infrastructure needs.
• Provide user training and troubleshooting for software solutions.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of technical experience in DevOps.
• Minimum 3+ years technical team leadership experience in information security or computer science.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, applied information technology or related field.
• Experience working in large-scale AWS cloud environments.
• Strong experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines across multiple tools.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with secret management tools like Hashicorp Vault and AWS Secrets Manager.
• Experience with automating application security controls using techniques such as SCA, SAST, DAST.
• Strong background in Linux/Unix administration.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
• Employee assistance plan and comprehensive behavioral health benefits.
• Fertility benefits, including surrogacy and adoption assistance programs.
• Basic and supplemental life insurance for employees and their families.
• Voluntary benefits such as group legal and identity theft protection.
• Short-term & long-term disability plans.
• Paid parental and caregiver leave.
• 401(k) Plan with company match and immediate vesting.
• Education assistance and student loan programs.
• Time off including vacation, paid holidays, and special breaks.