About the Role:
We are seeking a Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Platform Engineer with 8 years to 12 years of experience in the Engineering Enablement (EEng) team within PlayStation Network Services focuses on developing tools and technology frameworks to support engineering teams across the organization. Core areas of work include Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Python/GoLang, Shell scripting, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Observability with Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana & Supporting high-availability systems and environments
Requirements:
- Strong expertise inAWS(VPC, EC2, IAM, ALB/NLB, ASG, Route53, RDS, Lambda, EKS, S3, EBS).
- Deep understanding ofnetworking fundamentals(CIDR, routing, DNS, security groups, load balancers).
- Hands-on experience withTerraform(modules, workspaces, state management, CI automation).
- Strong experience withDocker(multi-stage builds, image optimization, security, multi-arch builds).
- Advanced knowledge ofKubernetes internals, including control-plane components, API lifecycle, CRDs, operators, and etcd fundamentals.
- Hands-on development experience building Kubernetes controllers/operatorsusing controller-runtime patterns.
- Strong programming skills in Python or Golang (at least one required)for platform tooling, automation, and controller development.
- Experience managing production Kubernetes upgrades and EKS add-ons.
- StrongLinux system administration and troubleshootingskills.
- Proven experience handlingproduction incidentsin large-scale, distributed systems.
Preferred / Good to Have:
- AWS Solution Architectcertification.
- CKA, CKAD,CKScertification.
- Experience withGitOps tools(ArgoCD / FluxCD).
- Exposure toGCP.
- Experience withGitHub Actions.
- Experience withIstio / Service MeshandEnvoy.
- Experience withobservability platforms(Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, CloudWatch).
