Job Specification

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's "SCEE R&D" group provide a range of services (technical support, research and development, and consultancy) that support the development of PlayStation products by both SCEE and its third party partners throughout Europe and Australasia.

SCEE R&D have a vacancy for a full time software engineer to join our infrastructure development team immediately, reporting to the team manager.

The infrastructure team ("DevNet") works closely with staff in our North American and Japanese headquarters in order to develop web based services that help our colleagues provide support to licensed PlayStation developers. We are seeking an individual with excellent development and software design skills to join our small team and extend our bespoke support platform.

The ideal applicant will have qualifications or significant experience in the computing field, with a software development background.

The following skills are essential:

• A working familiarity with Linux
• OO design and development (we use PHP 5)
• Ability to develop and work to specifications

The following skills would be highly advantageous:

• Modern JavaScript techniques
• Apache administration
• PostgreSQL administration
• SQL, databases and query optimization
• Understanding of character sets and encoding, and internationalization issues
• Experience of using version control tools
• Interest in advances in web site development tools and practice

Some level of understanding of issues relating to the following would be beneficial:

• Knowledge of Perl, Python or C
• Web security
• Implementing access control levels and content management features

The applicant must be proactive enough to manage tasks well independently, and communicate proficiently with an international development team. As we are globally distributed we rely heavily on written communication.

Applicants are invited to cite examples of their skills/work with their application and supply brief case studies and code samples of their own work.

Competitive. London bonus provided.

To apply please e-mail your CV to our Human Resources group, specifying "SCEE R&D: Infrastructure Engineer" as the subject line.