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.