Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Activision Blizzard, Inc.

$63K — $117K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

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, and Git workflows.
  • Basic scripting knowledge in Bash, Python, or similar languages.
  • Understanding of monitoring, logs, metrics, dashboards, and incident management practices.
  • Strong troubleshooting mindset and clear communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor service health and respond to alerts in cloud and application environments.
  • Investigate reliability issues across various technology domains, escalating when necessary.
  • Build and maintain operational documentation to enhance detection and recovery.
  • Contribute to small automations and scripts to minimize repetitive tasks and maintain environment hygiene.
  • Support release and deployment reliability, ensuring smooth changes and rollback readiness.
  • Participate in post-incident follow-ups to ensure corrective actions are implemented.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, including HSAs and FSAs.
  • 401(k) plan with company matching and tuition reimbursement.
  • Generous paid time off including holidays, vacation, sick time, and parental leave.
  • Mental health and wellness programs, fitness benefits, and access to games.
  • Relocation assistance for employees moving for the job.
Full Job Description
Job Title:
Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Requisition ID:
R027696

Job Description:

Job Title: Associate Site Reliability Engineer

Reporting To:Manager, Engineering

Department: Marketing Technology

Location: Santa Monica, Ca

Overview

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.

Key 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.


Rewards

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.


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 https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $30.53 - $56.48 Hourly. 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 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.

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