Description
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Senior Software Developer - AWS / Platform to join their team. This position must sit onsite four days a week in one of their technology offices.
The Production Platform Foundations team provides tools and guidance across the organization for operations in AWS. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team, you will be a security-focused cloud engineer responsible for designing, building, and supporting automation and tooling initiatives that further enable secure, compliant, self-service ways of working for both the team and the developer base.
Responsibilities:
- Write automation tools for your team and other internal teams to self-service, deploy, detect, alert, and mitigate in our AWS environments
- Build on AWS, including hands-on work with IAM, security policies, and cloud-native services
- Champion and execute best practices and security standards for operating in the cloud
- Troubleshoot and implement appropriate IAM permissions for user access and workloads running in AWS
- Provide guidance and recommendations to development teams on service design and deployments
- Own initiatives and contribute to future solution designs and planning
- Be a go-to technical resource on the team, spanning across levels and cross-functional teams
- Monitor and work on inbound issues
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong Python development skills, you write production-quality code, not just scripts
- Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools - Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins
- Experience with platform engineering, primarily backend development using Python
- Experience developing APIs and designing database schemas
- Hands-on AWS Security/IAM administration and policy-creation experience for many users and workloads
- Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts
- Experience with Unix/Linux systems
- Exhibit clear, succinct written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Familiarity with operational troubleshooting tools and techniques
Nice to have, but not required:
- Experience leveraging AI as a productivity multiplier
- AWS Certifications
- Experience supporting DevOps teams in mid-to-large-sized organizations, especially in multitenant environments
- Familiarity with SSL Certificate management
- Familiarity with general and AWS-specific networking concepts, including VPC constructs, Firewalling, and DNS