Senior Data Platform Engineer
United States of America
Full Time
2 weeks ago
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
PythonSQLETLData EngineeringDatabricksSparkAWSTerraformJenkinsGitHub ActionsEC2LambdaDynamoDBIAMCloudWatchGlueAPI GatewayKinesisGitHubCI/CDChange ManagementCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Sony Interactive Entertainment is a global leader in entertainment known for the PlayStation family of products and services. They are seeking a highly motivated Senior Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve their data infrastructure on AWS and Databricks, lead cloud-driven configurations, and support ETL development.
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, CI/CD)
- Standardize and templatize environment provisioning across dev/prod FinOps and cost governance
- Establish tagging, budgets, and chargeback/showback; rightsized compute, storage, and job configurations
- Manage Savings Plans/Reserved Instances, Spot 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 cost savings
- Document designs, standards, and operational practices to enable a small team to move quickly and safely
Requirements:
- 3+ years in data/platform/DevOps engineering with significant AWS experience
- Proficient in Python and SQL
- Proficient in AWS Budget and Cost Management, AWS Trusted Advisor, CloudWatch & CloudTrail
- CI/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, cost allocation/tagging, monitoring/alerts
- Excellent communication and ability to operate in a small, high-impact team
- Experience with AWS ETL products: Glue, Kinesis, Lambda, etc
- Terraform experience
- Understand the rules of the sport of baseball
- Passion for video games