Description
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization 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 Production Platform Foundations team is a horizontal service team providing both tools and guidance across the organization for operations in AWS. We strive to act as a productivity multiplier, providing consulting and operational support to Application teams to help them drive their adoption of AWS services in conjunction with their existing infrastructure.
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. You will also provide operational and technical guidance to Application Development (DevOps) teams that are utilizing the AWS environment at Disney Streaming.
Responsibilities:
- Write automation tools for your team and other internal teams to self-service, deploy, detect, alert, and mitigate in our AWS environments
- 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
- Experience building on public cloud, preferably AWS
- Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools - Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins
- Relevant software engineering experience, primarily backend (Python, database, building APIs)
- 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