Senior Data Ops Engineer, Data Activation & Products Activision

Your Mission

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help improve the reliability observability and operational maturity of our data platforms Kubernetes-based deployment systems internal applications and cloud environments.

This role sits at the intersection of SRE DevOps and data. The ideal candidate is comfortable operating production systems troubleshooting across infrastructure and applications and helping teams deploy and support services more safely.

The role does not require someone to be a data engineer but they should be excited about the systems that support modern data engineering including Databricks Spark Airflow/Astronomer streaming pipelines event systems internal tools and backend services.

We are especially interested in a creative curious engineer who enjoys learning new technology and using AI-accelerated development practices to solve problems faster and more thoughtfully. You should be excited to experiment with agentic development tools automation frameworks and emerging platform capabilities while applying sound engineering judgment.

This role has the option to be based in our Los Angeles (Pen Factory) office and follows an onsite work schedule of Monday through Thursday or be remote. Work arrangements may change at the companys discretion to meet business needs.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours so this role includes but is not limited to the following responsibilities:

• Monitor service health respond to alerts and participate in incident response for cloud Kubernetes application and data platform environments.
• Investigate reliability issues across Kubernetes networking DNS application runtime behavior Databricks jobs Spark workloads orchestration systems event systems and dependent services.
• Support the reliability of internal applications APIs workers streaming consumers event-driven services and deployment workflows used by data engineering and business teams.
• Build and maintain dashboards alerting runbooks and operational documentation that improve detection and recovery speed.
• Improve observability for Databricks environments including job health Spark streaming workloads structured streaming metrics cluster behavior failures latency throughput and cost signals.
• Help route Spark streaming metrics operational logs event-system signals and platform health signals into monitoring tools such as Grafana.
• Contribute to alerting patterns for Databricks workflows Airflow/Astronomer DAGs dbt jobs data freshness pipeline failures event lag dead-letter queues and production data dependencies.
• Contribute scripts and automation that reduce repetitive operational work and improve environment hygiene.
• Support release and deployment reliability by validating changes improving rollback readiness and strengthening change safety.
• Partner with data engineers analytics engineers and software engineers to improve reliability across pipelines services internal tools event systems and data products.
• Participate in post-incident follow-up and help close corrective actions that prevent recurrence.
• Support platform modernization and migration efforts including orchestration platform changes deployment system improvements and shared reliability standards.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in SRE DevOps cloud infrastructure platform engineering software engineering data platform operations or related production-support roles.
• Hands-on experience supporting Kubernetes-based workloads deployment systems cloud infrastructure or production application environments.
• Familiarity with Linux HTTP DNS containers Kubernetes Git-based workflows and scripting in Bash Python or similar languages.
• Experience with monitoring logs metrics dashboards alerting and incident management practices.
• Comfort working with event systems such as Kafka Google Pub/Sub Kinesis or similar technologies including topics subscriptions consumers retries lag and dead-letter queues.
• Strong troubleshooting mindset clear communication and comfort operating in a production-support environment.
• Interest in data platforms data engineering systems orchestration streaming workloads event-driven architecture internal developer tools and production data services.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes deployment and release tooling such as Helm ArgoCD or similar GitOps workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions GitLab CI Jenkins or similar pipelines.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar provisioning tools.
• Familiarity with Databricks Spark Spark Structured Streaming Airflow Astronomer dbt Kafka Pub/Sub object storage or lakehouse architectures.
• Experience with observability tools such as Grafana Prometheus Cloud Monitoring Datadog Splunk or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting internal applications APIs event-driven services streaming consumers or backend workers.
• Exposure to data reliability concepts such as freshness latency completeness pipeline health data quality checks and dependency-aware alerting.
• Exposure to SLOs SLAs error budgets postmortems or formal reliability practices.

What Success Looks Like

• Kubernetes and deployment workflows are easier to operate monitor and troubleshoot.
• Databricks Spark streaming orchestration event-driven and dbt environments have clearer dashboards alerts and runbooks.
• Spark streaming metrics event-system health signals and platform logs are easier to access visualize and operationalize through tools such as Grafana.
• Incidents are detected faster resolved more efficiently and followed up with meaningful corrective actions.
• Data engineers analytics engineers and software engineers can deploy changes more safely and with greater confidence.
• Repetitive operational work is reduced through automation and better platform standards.
• Platform migrations and modernization efforts are supported with strong reliability observability and operational practices.

Our World

At Activision we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. Were driven by our mission to deliver unrivaled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy together. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty Crash Bandicoot Tony Hawks Pro Skater and Guitar Hero. As a leading worldwide developer publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and products our press start is simple: delight hundreds of millions of players around the world with innovative fun thrilling and engaging entertainment experiences.

Were not just looking back at our decades-long legacy; were forging ahead to keep advancing gameplay with some of the most popular titles and sophisticated technology in the world. We have bold ambitions to create the most inclusive company as we know our success comes from the passionate creative and diverse teams within our organization.

Were in the business of delivering fun and unforgettable entertainment for our player community to enjoy. And our future opportunities have never been greater this could be your opportunity to level up.

Ready to Activate Your Future

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical emotional and financial well-being for Every World - weve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical dental vision health savings account or health reimbursement account healthcare spending accounts dependent care spending accounts life and AD&D insurance disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match tuition reimbursement charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation paid sick time floating holidays compassion and bereavement leaves parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs fitness programs free and discounted games and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability legal service ID protection rental insurance and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting the U.S. the standard base pay range for this role is $102800.00 - $190204.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately your specific range and offer will be based on several factors including relevant experience performance and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this roles range details for your local geography during the hiring addition to a competitive base pay employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed. While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates new hire compensation is negotiable.