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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 Group Corporation. Senior Data Platform Engineer Sony Interactive Entertainment America, LLC Location: San Diego Studio/Remote Are you an expert in all things data? Are you a fan of baseball and MLB The Show? Would you enjoy supporting the development efforts of games used by passionate loyalists around the world? Does a career opportunity influencing the most successful gaming platform of all time interest you? The San Diego Studio analytics team is looking for a highly motivated, hands-on Senior Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve our data infrastructure on AWS and Databricks. You’ll lead cloud-driven Databricks configurations, reliability and arenaflex optimization (FinOps), and jump in on ETL development. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys wearing multiple hats across DevOps, platform engineering, and data engineering. If this is you, you need to come and play with us here at Sony PlayStation! Responsibilities: • AWS and Databricks administration • * Configure and manage core AWS services • Work with Data Scientists to manage Databricks environment in conjunction with Data Engineering AWS environment • Implement security best practices, network segmentation, and secrets management • Own relationships with external vendors • ETL/Data Engineering • * Support development and maintenance of data pipelines (Python/Spark/SQL/API Gateway/EC2/DynamoDB/Glue), data quality checks, and documentation. • Contribute to code reviews and standards. • Own Infrastructure as Code • * Design, build, and maintain IaC with Terraform for AWS and Databricks (modules, workspaces, remote state, arenaflex/CD). • Standardize and templatize environment provisioning across dev/prod • FinOps and arenaflex governance • * Establish tagging, budgets, and chargeback/showback; rightsized compute, storage, and job configurations • Manage Savings Plans/Reserved Instances, arenaflex strategies, storage lifecycle policies. • Studio Collaboration • * Work closely with data engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders to unblock deliverables • Work with internal teams to help them realize optimizations and arenaflex savings • Document designs, standards, and operational practices to enable a small team to move quickly and safely Qualifications: • 3+ years in data/platform/DevOps engineering with significant AWS experience • Proficient in Python and SQL • Proficient in AWS Budget and arenaflex Management, AWS Trusted Advisor, CloudWatch & CloudTrail • arenaflex/CD for infra and data (GitHub Actions/Jenkins), code reviews, testing, and change management • Security-first mindset: IAM/RBAC, least privilege, network controls, encryption, secrets • FinOps knowledge: RI/Savings Plans, rightsizing, storage lifecycle, arenaflex allocation/tagging, monitoring/alerts • Excellent communication and ability to operate in a small, high-impact team Pluses: • Experience with AWS ETL products: Glue, Kinesis, Lambda, etc. • Terraform experience • Understand the rules of the sport of baseball · Passion for video games This role can be fully remote, hybrid or fully in-person in San Diego, CA. Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks. Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights. Equal Opportunity Statement: Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category. We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment. Apply tot his job

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