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Sony Interactive Entertainment

PlayStation hardware, network services, and games

Manager – Service Reliability Engineering

Engineering LeadershipUpdated on Nov 11
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience as a people manager of an engineering team.
  • Experience leading technical projects involving multiple departments and teams.
  • Experience collaborating with global teams in Japan and overseas.
  • Experience building consensus among stakeholders across diverse cultures and time zones.
  • Business-level Japanese and English communication skills.
  • Experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, or large-scale service operations using public cloud.
  • Experience improving operations using artificial intelligence or automation.

Responsibilities

  • Lead hiring, employee development, and performance management as the people manager of the Platform Support team in Japan.
  • Represent the Japan Platform Support organization and act as its point of contact with the Global Platform Support team, coordinating with stakeholders in Japan, the United States, and India.
  • Develop the Platform Support organization's roadmap and objectives and key results/key performance indicators, and lead continuous organizational improvement.
  • Develop and drive strategies for operations automation using artificial intelligence, standardization, and improved developer experience.
  • Establish new operational work within Platform Support, standardize and automate it, then transfer it to execution teams such as Technical Operations Support to build a scalable operating model.
  • Work with Platform Engineering, application development, and related teams to improve reliability, operability, and developer experience.
  • Establish follow-the-sun coverage and common operational processes to build a global operations model beyond Japan.
  • Communicate the needs and challenges of engineering teams in Japan globally, and deploy globally developed strategies and best practices in Japan.
  • Continuously review Platform Support organizational key performance indicators and drive improvements such as toil reduction, automation, and self-service.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience establishing a Platform Engineering organization.
  • Experience designing operating models that use external partners, business process outsourcing, or Technical Operations Support.
  • Experience implementing and operating service-level objectives and indicators, error budgets, and operational readiness reviews.
  • Experience improving engineering productivity and developer experience.
  • Experience with automation using Terraform, Python, or Go.
  • Experience supporting developer platforms or internal infrastructure services.
  • Experience managing globally distributed engineering teams.
  • Experience with budget management, vendor management, and operational planning.
  • Experience leading reliability improvements in large-scale distributed systems.

About the Company

Sony Interactive Entertainment

PlayStation hardware, network services, and games

PlayStation is a division that develops and operates PlayStation hardware, software, and online services for a global audience. Its products include consoles, games from PlayStation Studios, and the PlayStation Network, which enables digital purchases, online multiplayer, and cloud saves. A PlayStation console plays games from discs or downloads, connects to PSN for online features, and uses digital stores to access a library of games from first- and third-party partners. The goal is to provide borderless, high-quality entertainment and grow the PlayStation ecosystem by tightly integrating devices, services, and exclusive content.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
San Mateo, CA
Founded
1994

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