Director, IT Core Infrastructure

PlayStation (Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Dublin, IrelandOn site8 days ago

Job description

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment? Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of… ## What you'll do as business needs evolve. What you'll be doing: Functional Leadership & Accountability - 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. Infrastructure Strategy & Transformation - 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. Service Delivery & Operational Excellence - 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 ## What you'll bring . - 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. Enterprise & Cross Functional Leadership - 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. People Leadership & Organizational Development - 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. Financial, Portfolio & Resource Management - 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. …