Senior Director of Reliability Engineering and Operations

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.

PlayStation Network (PSN) is the leading global digital platform for online interactive entertainment. PSN Global Service Operations (GSO) leads efforts key to the  stability of the PlayStation Network.

As a Sr. Director of Reliability Engineering and Operations, you will be delivering high quality operations service for incident resolution, as well as developing engineering solution to make it continuously improving. Operations service includes NOC 24*7 monitoring, ITIL Service Management (Incident/Problem/Change), Application support by globally distributed team (US/UK/JP), and Reliability engineering.

The scope of support includes e-commerce, online game play, social interaction, account & identify, PlayStation partner and retail commerce tools, more in the future. It is essential for this role to plan for further expansion by optimally applying the operations solution validated in existing area of platform. Establishing strong trust relationship with numerous partners will be essential. Partners include SIE’s business and engineering team, counterpart in external gaming company, industry association, and local authorities where we provide service.

Bringing the best Tech industry practice is highly encouraged! That will include the overall system operations process, follow the sun support design and execution, distributed team management, effective root cause analysis, important metric management.

Continuously conducting improvement actions extracted from the incidents. These actions span out to wider ranges, such as engineering solution development, process refinement, change in business operations. This role needs to have a deep understanding of digital business operation to propose a realistic and effective measure.

As a part of this, you’ll be responsible to lead and develop Observability tools. This is to provide end to end consolidated view of the constantly evolving global platform. Additionally, developing operations automation solution is also in the scope.

As a global role, international business trips will be a vital means of effective team communication, but this occurs only after it is regarded as safe to do so.

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of day to day global incident resolution, ensure high quality support is provided on a continuous basis.
• Define an industry leading goal for the team and carry out a plan to achieve this.
• Define important operational critical metrics, supervise them to ensure continuous improvement and learning process is working.
• Align with global customers and continuously seek their feedback for the better service.
• Collaborate with internal/external teams to drive improvement action items originated from the learning of incident.
• Define and implement observability and automation tools roadmap to stay ahead of the needs of PSN teams.
• Lead and cultivate the team's culture. Encourage innovative solution to address operational issue. Enable continuous improvement and increase execution velocity. Advocate for the best business and technical practice, not keeping the way as-is.
• Continuously learn the newest technology trend in observability and SRE area to adopt those into PSN operations.
• Plan and provide a relevant career progression path to the team members.
• Represent Global Service Operations in the new project preparedness, ensure the operations readiness for the launch.
• Design and propose efficient operations support model that satisfy respective engineering & business team
• Promote the use of observability tools to other engineering organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of professional experience and 5 years of management experience. Professional areas include IT engineering, security engineering, System operations support or professional support.
• Validated experience of the web technology or web-based application technology. Any layer of the platform will be OK.