Senior Data Ops Engineer, Data Activation & Products - Activision

Activision Blizzard
Santa Monica
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 102,800 - 190,204 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Troubleshooting","Clear communication"]

Own reliability, observability, and operational maturity for data platforms and Kubernetes-based deployment systems. Monitor and respond to incidents across cloud, applications, Databricks/Spark workloads, orchestration, and event-driven services. Build dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and run-through tooling (e.g., Grafana and monitoring integrations) while collaborating with data and software engineers to improve change safety, recovery speed, and platform modernization.

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Activision Blizzard
Activision Blizzard
14 hours ago

Senior Data Ops Engineer, Data Activation & Products - Activision

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Job Summary

Own reliability, observability, and operational maturity for data platforms and Kubernetes-based deployment systems. Monitor and respond to incidents across cloud, applications, Databricks/Spark workloads, orchestration, and event-driven services. Build dashboards, alerting, runbooks, and run-through tooling (e.g., Grafana and monitoring integrations) while collaborating with data and software engineers to improve change safety, recovery speed, and platform modernization.
Location: Santa Monica
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key 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, and event systems.
  • •Support 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 to improve detection and recovery speed.
  • •Partner with data, analytics, and software engineers to strengthen release/deployment reliability, automation, and platform modernization efforts.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 102,800 - 190,204 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, platform 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 with event systems (Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, Kinesis, or similar) and troubleshooting in a production-support environment.
Experience:SREDevOpsCloud infrastructureData platforms
Skills:TroubleshootingClear communication
Tech Stack:KubernetesDatabricksSparkAirflowAstronomerDbtKafkaGoogle Pub/SubKinesisGrafanaPrometheusCloud MonitoringDatadogSplunkHelmArgoCDGitOpsGitHub ActionsGitLab CIJenkins

Company Brief

Activision Blizzard
Develops and publishes interactive entertainment content, including video games and connected gaming experiences across console, PC, and mobile platforms. The company is known for major franchises such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Candy Crush, and Diablo.
Industry: Gaming
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Santa Monica, United States
Founded: 2008
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