Platform Engineer (Project Hire)

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Platform Engineer (Project Hire)

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Job Description:

The Platform Engineer is a skilled independent contributor who designs implements and supports core platform and infrastructure capabilities that power magical Disney Experiences across parks resorts cruises and consumer products. 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.

We are seeking an individual to take full ownership of a large-scale Splunk environment supporting mission-critical operational and engineering systems. This role will be responsible for managing the entire Splunk ecosystem from the infrastructure layer (bare metal) through application-level development in direct support of software engineering teams responsible for complex physical systems and real-time operations.

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

In this role you will act as a proficient problem-solver and effective partner to engineering and product teams owning platform components from design through operations while mentoring colleagues and working with minimal guidance. You will emphasize automation observability and lifecycle management platforms to improve reliability reduce operational toil and support data-driven decisions that enhance Disney Experiences worldwide.

• Own and manage the full Splunk stack

• End-to-end responsibility from bare metal infrastructure OS Splunk architecture dashboards and analytics

• 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

• Security governance and access control

• Implement role-based access and data governance best practices

• Maintain compliance with enterprise security standards

• Continuous improvement

• 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)

Required Education

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering Software Engineering Information Technology or a related technical field or relevant work experience

The hiring range for this position in Orlando FL is $94300 to $126300 per year. 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.

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Worldwide Safety Health Engineer & Sourcing

Job Posting Primary Business:

Global Engineering & Technology (WSHES)

Primary Job Posting Category:

Platform Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City State Region Postal Code:

Lake Buena Vista FL USA

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