Associate Site Reliability Engineer
About the role
The Associate Site Reliability Engineer helps keep Marketing Technology services reliable, observable, and supportable in production. This role is designed as an entry-level-to-early-career SRE position, but grounded in the type of operational work seen in the team today: incident triage, troubleshooting infrastructure and application behavior, improving observability, and reducing toil through automation.
Responsibilities
- Monitor service health, respond to alerts, and participate in incident response for cloud and application environments.
- Investigate reliability issues across Kubernetes, networking, DNS, application runtime behavior, and dependent services, escalating when appropriate.
- Build and maintain dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and operational documentation that improve detection and recovery speed.
- Contribute small automations and scripts that reduce repetitive operational work and improve environment hygiene.
- Support release and deployment reliability by validating changes, helping with rollback readiness, and improving change safety.
- Participate in post-incident follow-up and help close corrective actions that prevent recurrence.
Qualifications
- 1–3 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or software engineering internships / early-career roles.
- Familiarity with Linux, HTTP, DNS, containers, Kubernetes, Git-based workflows, and scripting in Bash, Python, or similar languages.
- Exposure to monitoring, logs, metrics, dashboards, and incident management practices.
- Strong troubleshooting mindset, clear communication, and willingness to learn in a production-support environment.
Our World
At Activision, we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Crash Bandicoot™, Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™, and Guitar Hero®. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities.
Requirements
- We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve 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.
Rewards
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 role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In 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.