# Lead Systems Engineer

**Company**: Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology
**Location**: Glendale, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $137,500.00 - $184,300.00 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organisation of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally.

The Lead Systems Engineer is a senior technical contributor responsible for delivering and scaling critical infrastructure platforms across hybrid environments, including on-premises data centres and public cloud.

**Responsibilities**

**Platform Engineering & Delivery**

- Lead design and implementation of hybrid infrastructure systems focused primarily on origin object storage systems of content.

- Translate architectural designs into scalable deployment patterns.

- Identify critical metric KPIs to drive improvements across all platforms.

- Deliver solutions across on-prem and cloud environments.

- Drive continuous improvements to support our goal of 5 9's availability.

**Automation & Modernization**

- Drive Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD best practices.

- Lead infrastructure migrations and modernization initiatives.

**Reliability & Operations**

- Lead incident response and ensure production stability.

- Support high availability, 24x7 infrastructure services.

**Technical Leadership**

- Mentor engineers and improve engineering practices.

- Act as a technical leader across multi-team projects.

**Collaboration**

- Partner cross-functionally to drive delivery.

- Communicate technical decisions clearly.

**Basic Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in a technical field.

- 7+ years of systems/infrastructure engineering experience.

- Expertise in hybrid infrastructure (on-prem + cloud).

- Expertise in complex large scale high performance multiprotocol NFS & S3 object storage systems.

- Experience with VMware, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.

- Strong automation skills (IaC, CI/CD).

- Proven leadership across complex technical initiatives.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience with large-scale migrations.

- Storage and data lifecycle expertise.

- Observability and monitoring expertise.

## Skills

### Required
- hybrid infrastructure
- object storage systems
- VMware
- Kubernetes
- distributed systems
- automation skills

### Nice to have
- large-scale migrations
- storage and data lifecycle
- observability and monitoring

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