Lead Systems Engineer

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Lead Systems Engineer

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Job Description:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disneys past present and future. 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 Disneys media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products enhance storytelling and drive velocity innovation and scalability for our are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Companys media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think youd love working here:

Building the future of Disneys media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media advertising and distribution businesses for years to come.

Reach Scale & Impact: More than ever Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand many more. These products and brands and the unmatched stories storytellers and events they carry matter to millions of people globally.

Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering media engineering quality assurance engineering behind personalization commerce lifecycle and identity.

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

This role bridges architecture and execution by translating enterprise-level designs into reusable automated patterns while leading complex infrastructure initiatives across multiple teams.

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 9s 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

• Bachelors 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

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The hiring range for this position in New York NY is $135400.00 - $181600.00 per year and in Los Angeles CA $129300 - $173300 The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates 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.

Job Posting Segment:

PE - Media Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business:

PE - Media Platform - Infrastructure Engineering

Primary Job Posting Category:

Systems Engineer

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City State Region Postal Code:

Glendale CA USA

Alternate City State Region Postal Code:

USA - NY - 7 Hudson Square USA - WA - 925 4th Ave

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