Cloud DevOps Engineer Intern
PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play —it’s also the Best Place to Work. We’ve thrilled gamers since 1994, when we launched the original PlayStation. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
This internship is for Summer 2022.
Cloud DevOps Engineer Intern
San Diego, CA
Sony Interactive Entertainment is looking for a Cloud DevOps Engineer Intern to join our established, high performance team in San Diego, CA. Our ideal candidate is hardworking and passionate about this field.
About the role:
- Solve complex problems, applying appropriate technologies and best practices
- Work with your team to invent, design, and build systems that are stable and performant
- Consider the legacy of the systems you produce, how they will scale, and limit the use of short-term workarounds. Make appropriate trade-offs, re-use where possible, and are judicious about introducing dependencies
- Identify patterns that affect the performance, reliability, or availability of a product or service and drive them out of the system through automation or other technical innovation
- Improve continuous integration and delivery systems
- Work on project ideas with customers, stakeholders, and peers
- Take on projects and make enhancements that improve team systems and processes
- Resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving systems better and easier to maintain than when you found them
- Read, write, and debug code in order to understand, implement, and operate a complete system. This code is held to the same standards as all the other code written at SIE (e.g., version controlled, code reviewed, etc.)
- Collaborate with Studio IT and PlayStation Studios on how systems are constructed, how they operate, scale, and how secure they are
- Provide insight to engineers that operate in different domains (e.g., software, hardware, security, and networking) in how their part interacts with others to form a system
Qualifications:
- Experience with open-source technologies
- Excellence in technical communications with both technical and non-technical peers
- Experience with maintaining distributed systems and web services
- Expertise with SQL and NoSQL databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis
- In-depth knowledge in RESTful API design and implementation
- Experience with Container technology such as Kubernetes, or Docker
- Knowledge in the development of high-performance and fault-tolerant systems
- Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
- Passion and experience in Systems and Network Administration, DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering
- Development experience with languages such as Scala, Java, Ruby, C++, or GoLang
- Experience in automation, testing or monitoring framework development
- Experience with agile software development practices
- Experience with engineering best practices such as CI/CD
- Understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability
- Experience or knowledgeable with configuration management systems such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
- Experience or knowledgeable with monitoring tools such as Sensu, Zabbix, or Prometheus
- Experience or knowledgeable with Cloud infrastructures such as OpenStack, AWS, Google, or Azure
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