Senior Systems Engineer

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PlayStation

United States, San Diego, CA

Hybrid

Posted April 3, 2026

Job Description

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 Systems Engineer

San Diego, CA

Role overview:

The Senior Systems Engineer role implements, maintains and secures the Identity technologies that keeps the workers of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) creating the best place to play.

We run a hybrid Identity infrastructure that powers the PlayStation platform across game, publishing and store operations. Success in this role is the innovative delivery and continual service improvement of the infrastructure technologies that comprise this hybrid environment while maintaining rock-solid uptime and delivering fantastic customer service.

What you'll be doing:

Contribute to the broader SIE Identity and Access Management community, helping to ensure solutions are kept up to the latest standards and built for the future
Enhance team efficiencies by applying automation tools and facilitating the seamless transfer of day-to-day operational tasks to the IT Operations Centre
Ensure all systems adhere to robust security standards through vulnerability management, including patching of operating systems and third-party software, system hardening, and configuration management.
Take ownership by seeking out ways to improve efficiency and stability of the Identity services while balancing innovation and new technologies.
Collaborate effectively with the wider IT teams and business units.
Maintain high standards of documentation and follow established processes and standards.
Implementing access reviews and privileged identity management (PIM)
Configuring and managing federated SaaS applications using SAML and OIDC
Ensuring we have accurate logging for audit and compliance, so we can adhere to relevant regulations and standards (e.g. GDPR, HIPAA) and detect anomalies
Implement strategies to ensure our Identities are well protected and be recovered quickly
Perform diagnostics utilising monitoring and diagnostic tools to pro-actively maintain and ensure performance of our Identity services
Configuring alerts and integrating with security information and event management systems (SIEM)
Facilitate migrations for acquisitions into SIE's Identity services