Staff Network Systems Engineer (Network Automation & DevOps)

Join our team as a Staff Network Systems Engineer, where you will play a key role in transitioning our global network infrastructure to a standardized, automated operating model. You will establish Infrastructure as Code practices, reusable automation, and automated validation, while working closely with network engineering, security, architecture, and platform teams. This hands-on role combines engineering with technical leadership, and success will be measured by increased automation coverage, reduced configuration drift, and improved change lead times.

Strong software-engineering skills in object-oriented or comparable programming languages such as Python and Go (Golang), including maintainable code, structured data, API integration, testing, error handling and documentation

Architecture governance, technical authority panels, strategic vendor engagement and globally delivered service operations

About PlayStation

Build reusable automation using object-oriented or comparable programming languages such as Python and Go (Golang), together with Terraform, Ansible, APIs and configuration-management tooling.

Responsibilities

• Establish Infrastructure as Code practices, reusable automation, automated validation and safe delivery pipelines.
• Assess the network estate, toolchain and operational workflows; identify sources of configuration variance, manual effort and change risk; and help define a phased modernisation roadmap.
• Staff-level influence and communication skills, including shaping technical direction across teams, building consensus, contributing to governance forums and developing other engineers
• Expert troubleshooting and engineering judgement, with experience supporting operational delivery, complex changes, major incidents and root-cause improvement
• GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, automated policy enforcement, artefact management and developer enablement

Requirements

• Deep enterprise networking knowledge across routing, switching, wireless, resilient design, network access control and secure remote connectivity, together with advanced Juniper Mist, EX Series and Junos experience or equivalent platform expertise
• Practical experience with Terraform, Ansible or comparable tooling, including reusable, idempotent automation components and controlled infrastructure delivery
• A strong track record of modernising network infrastructure through automation or Infrastructure as Code in a large, complex production environment
• Strong working knowledge of Git, pull-request workflows, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, release controls, policy enforcement and secrets management
• Network APIs and data models, including REST, NETCONF, RESTCONF, JSON, YAML and YANG-based workflows
• Azure or AWS networking, enterprise authentication, Zero Trust principles and network observability platforms
• High-availability gaming, digital-media, creative or similarly demanding production environments

Pay

USD 109,400 - 164,000