Director of IT Core Infrastructure, PlayStation
€109.4-164k
+ Bonus
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
Open for applications
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
€109.4-164k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years of experience across infrastructure engineering, enterprise technology, or related technology disciplines
- 5+ years of experience managing managers and leading large, globally distributed technology teams
- Broad understanding of enterprise infrastructure and technology services, with deep expertise in one or more relevant domains and the ability to lead effectively across disciplines
- Proven experience operating and evolving large scale, business critical enterprise technology environments
- Demonstrated experience leading significant technology, organizational, or operating model transformation across multiple teams or domains
- Experience developing managers and senior technical leaders and building leadership depth within an organization
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead initiatives beyond direct organizational ownership in complex, matrixed organizations
- Experience building and executing multi-year strategies, roadmaps, investment plans, and operating models
- Strong financial and commercial acumen, including investment prioritization, vendor strategy, and cost optimization
- Ability to translate complex technology topics into clear business implications, decisions, and outcomes for executive audiences
What the job involves
- The Director, IT Core Infrastructure is a senior technology leader responsible for the strategy, transformation, delivery, and operations of SIE’s global core infrastructure capabilities. The role leads a broad, globally distributed organization spanning internal networks and client access, core network connectivity across physical sites, cloud and on-premise infrastructure, and enterprise endpoint management across mobile, Linux, Windows, and Mac platforms
- Reporting to the Senior Director of IT, this role leads through multiple managers and is accountable for the performance, security, scalability, reliability, resilience, and user experience of Core Infrastructure services. The Director will translate enterprise strategy into clear priorities, investment decisions, and multi-year roadmaps while balancing transformation, operational performance, technical debt, risk, and cost
- This leader will drive the evolution of Core Infrastructure toward highly automated, software defined, self-service, and increasingly autonomous operating models. The role requires the technical credibility to lead across infrastructure disciplines and the breadth to shape technology strategy, lead transformation, influence across organizational boundaries, and take on expanded responsibilities as business needs evolve
- Lead the Core Infrastructure organization across multiple teams and disciplines, providing clear direction, priorities, and accountability for outcomes
- Hold end-to-end accountability for service performance, including availability, reliability, security, resilience, and user experience
- Set priorities and make decisions across the Core Infrastructure portfolio, balancing operational needs, transformation, risk, technical debt, and investment
- Establish clear accountability across teams while empowering leaders to independently own their services and outcomes
- Define and execute a Core Infrastructure strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned with enterprise technology strategy and business priorities
- Lead the evolution toward highly automated, software defined, self-service, and increasingly autonomous infrastructure services
- Drive adoption of infrastructure as code, observability, AI enabled operations, and modern engineering practices to improve reliability, scalability, speed, and efficiency
- Simplify and standardize technology and service models, reducing complexity and improving the ability to operate globally at scale
- Partner with Information Security, Service & Support, and other technology organizations to develop integrated solutions and influence broader enterprise technology strategy
- Establish strong operational practices across service management, incident response, change management, lifecycle management, capacity, observability, and resilience
- Ensure infrastructure services meet performance, security, availability, resilience, business continuity, and regulatory requirements
- Drive measurable improvements in reliability, employee experience, engineering productivity, automation, cost efficiency, and speed of delivery
- Use operational data and service performance measures to identify systemic issues, prioritize improvements, guide investment, and reduce manual operational effort
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders on infrastructure strategy, investments, risks, and opportunities
- Lead complex enterprise initiatives that span multiple technology organizations and require alignment across priorities, ownership boundaries, and stakeholders
- Represent Core Infrastructure in enterprise planning, architecture, investment, risk, and transformation discussions, bringing a perspective beyond the immediate needs of the function
- Communicate complex technology decisions and tradeoffs clearly to executive audiences and build strong partnerships across technology and business organizations
- Lead, coach, and develop a global organization of managers, architects, and senior engineers
- Build a high performing leadership team with clear accountability, strong ownership, and the ability to operate independently
- Develop leaders capable of owning major technology domains and enterprise outcomes, creating organizational depth and succession readiness
- Continually evolve organizational structure, skills, roles, and sourcing models to support changing business and technology needs
- Build a culture centered on engineering excellence, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and measurable outcomes
- Own financial planning, forecasting, investment prioritization, and resource allocation across the Core Infrastructure portfolio
- Make deliberate investment tradeoffs across transformation, lifecycle, technical debt, resilience, security, operational needs, and emerging capabilities
- Drive sustainable cost optimization and develop clear business cases for significant technology investments
- Manage strategic vendors, partners, and sourcing models to ensure performance, value, innovation, and alignment with SIE priorities
- Establish appropriate governance, standards, and policies across Core Infrastructure while avoiding unnecessary process and operational overhead
- Identify, communicate, and mitigate risks related to availability, security, scalability, lifecycle, capacity, and resilience
- Establish and monitor meaningful service level objectives, availability targets, operational health measures, and business outcome metrics
- Use data to drive accountability, investment decisions, and continuous improvement
- Challenge existing processes and operating models where they create unnecessary complexity or limit speed, automation, or scalability
- Contribute to the continued evolution of the broader IT operating model and technology organization
Our take
Since the release of the PS1 in 1994, PlayStation has been a consistent leader in the video gaming market. Its consoles are iconic in the gaming community - PlayStation has produced both the top-selling and fastest-selling console of all time - and the company is still pushing boundaries. Its current flagship - the PS5 - promises to revolutionize gaming, featuring new technology that will create improvements across the board.
As well as its consoles, PlayStation has also developed online services, connecting its users and giving them access to diversified media. A PlayStation can be used for a huge range of activities - from Netflix to guided workouts - which has led to the expansion of the company's audience over time and across generations.
PlayStation faces competition in its field from the likes of Microsoft, with its Xbox range, and PC gaming, which has been becoming more popular in recent years. Regardless, PlayStation shows no signs of slowing down. The upcoming implementation of in-game ads in free games looks to significantly increase revenue, and the wider PlayStation gaming experience also appears to be evolving from plans to launch live service games in upcoming years.
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8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
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