Sony AI America, a branch of Sony AI, is a remotely distributed organization spread across the U.S. and Canada. Sony AI is Sony’s new research organization pursuing the mission to use AI to unleash human creativity. Sony AI works closely with Sony’s other business units, including Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., and Sony Music Entertainment. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth. To learn more: https://ai.sony/

POSITION SUMMARY

Sony AI America (SAIA) is seeking highly motivated, self-driven DevOps Engineers. We’re currently looking for smart, enthusiastic people who want to join our team of world-renowned researchers and engineers as we push the boundaries applying AI in support of human creativity. In this role, successful candidates will work within our global operations team and help manage and extend cloud infrastructure with a focus on security, resiliency, and observability. Sony AI America is a remote-work organization – location is flexible.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Assist the operations team as it expands cloud infrastructure by helping integrate new cloud services, providers and data center assets.
Collaborate on new projects with researchers/engineers on various teams and deploy operational components and pipelines.
Help the operations team integrate our global IT services into Okta and unify authentication across our services.
Maintenance, documentation, and extension of existing infrastructure automation code and configurations.
Assist team in automation/performance optimizations and best practice adoption for internal tools and infrastructure.

Managing and improving monitoring solutions and working towards automating remediation.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR POSITION

Your qualifications and experience should include: 

Bachelors in Computer Science or related field with three years of post-degree or equivalent engineering experience.
Scripting experience in at least one language (Bash, Python, etc).
Experience working with cloud service providers (AWS, GCP or similar).

Experience working with an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) paradigm (Terraform, Cloudformation or similar).
Experience with container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Kind, Helm, Tilt, etc).
Excellent written and oral communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills including the ability to articulate to both technical and non-technical audiences.
(Nice to have) Knowledge about monitoring tools such as Grafana, Loki, Prometheus etc. as well as about authentication flows such as OAuth, OIDC and integrating applications into Okta. ’

For more information and if you want to apply for similar job openings in Japan or Europe, please visit https://ai.sony

In addition to competitive pay and benefits, we offer an environment and culture that promotes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We are committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for you to thrive as part of Sony’s purpose to “fill the world with emotion through the power of creativity and technology”.

Benefits:   

SCA offers benefits-eligible employees (generally regular employees scheduled to work 20 or more hours a week) a comprehensive benefits program that offers coverage and support for employees and their family’s physical, emotional, and financial well-being.  

 What we offer you:

Comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage with coverage for spouses/domestic partners and child dependents, including access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) 
Employee assistance plan and comprehensive behavioral health benefits
Fertility benefits, including surrogacy, and adoption assistance programs  
Basic and supplemental life insurance for employees as well as supplemental life insurance coverage for their spouses/domestic partners and children

Voluntary benefits such as group legal, identity theft protection, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance 
Short-term & long-term disability plans  
Paid parental and caregiver leave  
401(k) Plan with pre-tax, Roth, and after-tax options and company match which vests immediately
Education assistance and student loan programs

Other Programs: 

Time off to include vacation, paid holidays, sick leave, Summer Fridays (early release), and a winter break between Christmas and New Year’s Day (based on business needs)

Referral bonuses (subject to eligibility)  
Matching gift program  
A wide variety of employee business resource groups (EBRGs)  
Special discounts on Sony products, offered exclusively to Sony employees
Employee stock purchase plan (Sony covers commissions and fees for your Sony stock purchases made through after-tax payroll deductions)

Annual incentive bonus

The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $130,000 to $155,000. This range does not include any other compensation components or other benefits that an individual may be eligible for. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.