Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Activision is a leading worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment, and they are seeking a Senior Expert Systems Reliability Engineer/SCM Platform Owner to own their Perforce platform. This role involves ensuring the reliability, stability, and performance of the platform, while collaborating with various teams to promote best practices and represent Activision's interests with external partners.
Responsibilities
- Own the Perforce platform end-to-end, including reliability, stability, integrity, and technical direction
- Ensure Perforce operates as a highly available, well-monitored, and recoverable service across all studios
- Plan and execute Perforce upgrades, maintenance, and lifecycle changes with minimal studio impact
- Own disaster recovery, redundancy, and data protection strategy for core and edge Perforce infrastructure
- Support the long-term evolution of our Perforce implementation with AI-enabled workflows as required
- Act as the primary Perforce authority for Central Tech and game studios
- Support and scale Perforce usage through self-service, automation, and delegation
- Partner with studio CTOs, IT leads, and principal programmers to promote best practices
- Ensure Perforce remains a trusted, predictable, and well-understood platform for developers
- Own the technical relationship with Perforce Software, including roadmap influence and quality escalation
- Represent Activision within Microsoft/Xbox, collaborating with other studio and platform leads
- Serve as the external voice for Activision’s Perforce strategy and operating model
Skills
- 10+ years' experience operating SCM platforms at scale
- Deep experience as either an SRE or a Senior Systems Engineer with full platform ownership
- Experience leading or influencing SRE practices is a strong plus
- Strong Linux systems background (storage, compute, networking)
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, etc.)
- Experience with automation, delegation, or self-service tooling (Ansible, RunDeck, AWX, similar)
- Comfortable working off-hours when necessary to resolve critical outages
- Experience working directly with vendor and partner product/support teams
- Strong communication skills — able to represent Activision externally with credibility
Benefits
- 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.
Company Overview
Infinity Ward is an American video game developer. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.infinityward.com/.