# Platform Engineer (Project Hire)

**Company**: The Walt Disney Company
**Location**: Lake Buena Vista, FL
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $94,300 to $126,300 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://disney.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/disneycareer/job/Lake-Buena-Vista-FL-USA/Platform-Engineer--Project-Hire-_10157372-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

The Platform Engineer is a skilled, independent contributor who designs, implements, and supports core platform and infrastructure capabilities that power magical Disney Experiences.

You will focus on data pipelines, on-prem server architecture, observability, and DevOps automation, ensuring robust, scalable, and reliable environments that enable teams to deliver seamless guest and cast experiences.

This is a hands-on role requiring deep technical expertise across infrastructure, data ingestion, and observability, with a strong emphasis on reliability, scalability, and performance.

**Responsibilities**

- Own and manage the full Splunk stack

- Design, deploy, and maintain Splunk infrastructure

- Install, configure, and optimize Splunk components (indexers, search heads, forwarders, clustering)

- Manage both on-premise/physical server environments and hybrid integrations

- Support real-time operational systems

- Enable monitoring and observability for high-availability, real-time engineering systems

- Build dashboards and alerts used by engineering and operations teams

- Develop data pipelines and ingestion strategies

- Integrate data from diverse sources (logs, sensors, applications, control systems)

- Optimize parsing, indexing, and search performance

- Partner with software engineering leadership

- Work closely with Software Engineering Managers and system teams

- Translate operational requirements into scalable Splunk solutions

- Performance tuning and system reliability

- Identify bottlenecks across infrastructure and data pipelines

- Ensure high availability, redundancy, and system resilience

- Implement role-based access and data governance best practices

- Maintain compliance with enterprise security standards

- Recommend architecture improvements and modernization strategies

- Evaluate tools within the Splunk ecosystem (e.g., ITSI, ES, Cribl, etc.)

**Required Qualifications**

- 3+ years of experience with Splunk administration and development

- Proven experience owning a Splunk environment end-to-end

- Strong hands-on experience with:

- Splunk Enterprise architecture (indexers, search heads, clustering)

- Data ingestion, parsing, and optimization

- Dashboard and alert development

- Experience managing on-prem / bare-metal infrastructure

- Linux administration (preferred)

- Server provisioning, performance tuning, and system monitoring

- Experience supporting real-time, high-availability systems

- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar)

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience supporting engineering, industrial, or operational technology (OT) environments

- Familiarity with observability and logging tools beyond Splunk (e.g., Cribl, ELK, Prometheus)

- Experience with event-driven systems, telemetry data, or IoT/sensor integrations

- Exposure to high-throughput environments with large-scale data ingestion

- Splunk certifications (Admin, Architect, or Developer)

The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $94,300 to $126,300 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

## Skills

### Required
- Splunk administration
- Splunk development
- Splunk Enterprise architecture
- Data ingestion
- Parsing
- Optimization
- Dashboard development
- Linux administration
- Server provisioning
- Performance tuning
- System monitoring
- Scripting skills

### Nice to have
- Observability
- Logging tools
- Event-driven systems
- Telemetry data
- IoT/sensor integrations
- High-throughput environments
- Splunk certifications

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