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