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# Expert Systems Reliability Engineer/SCM Platform Owner - Central Technology

- **Company:** Activision Publishing, Inc.
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $121,500.0 - $224,880.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** LTE (Telecommunication), Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Linux, Disaster Recovery, Expert Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Perforce, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Rundeck
- **Published:** June 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=22ae37d83d1d3a60

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Vendor communication?, * 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

## Description

You will be the accountable owner for Activision's Perforce platform. That ownership spans:

 * Keeping Perforce reliable, stable, recoverable and performant

 * Representing Activision's interests with Perforce Software and Microsoft/Xbox

 * Ensuring Perforce evolves safely alongside studio needs and AI tooling

 * Acting as the authoritative Perforce voice internally and externally

 * Enabling studios to help themselves without compromising safety or security

You will partner closely with Central Tech systems engineers, studio IT leads, studio CTOs, principal programmers, and external partners - but you own the platform and its direction.

Core Responsibilities

Platform Ownership:

 * 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

People & Studio Enablement:

 * 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

Partners & Ecosystem:

 * 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


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