Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

At Disney Experiences Technology, our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company's premier vacation brands including Disney's Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club. The Disney Experiences Technology team is responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology and digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation, and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including the MyDisneyExperience app and Hey, Disney!

This role plays a critical part in the transition of Warehouse Management Systems from implementation into sustained production operations. Responsibilities span go-live readiness, post-implementation stabilization, hypercare support, and the establishment of long-term operational ownership for newly delivered capabilities. This role will also be a key point of contact for the Distribution Services teams across DX properties.

A successful candidate is highly collaborative, effective in a matrix organization, comfortable working autonomously, and experienced operating in complex production environments. This role serves as a subject matter expert for Warehouse Management Systems and ancillary systems, acting as a liaison between business, vendors, and technology teams while supporting production operations, enhancements, and backlog prioritization.

The Senior Systems Engineer reports to the Manager, Software Engineering.

What You'll Do

• Be accountable for uptime, recoverability, and operational readiness of warehouse production systems.
• Own the health, stability, and performance of live production applications.
• Support implementation and go-live activities, ensuring systems are production-ready and supportable.
• Participate in an on-call rotation leading incident response, triage, and service recovery
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex production issues.
• Facilitate deep root cause analysis across application, integration, and infrastructure layers.
• Drive accountability for SLAs, feature delivery, release execution and issue resolution with external vendors.
• Perform hands-on technical analysis when required to accelerate vendor troubleshooting and resolution.
• Create, maintain, and improve runbooks, diagnostics, and operational documentation.
• Balance short-term remediation with long-term system stability and operability improvements.
• Lead transition-to-support activities, including knowledge transfer, operational documentation, and stabilization following deployment.
• Develop and maintain configuration and asset records within Service Now.
• Proactively identify systemic risks and recurring issues and drive operational improvements.

Required Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience supporting large-scale, business-critical production systems.
• Proven incident response and escalation leadership experience.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems.
• Experience supporting vendor-provided or Commercial Off-the-Shelf platforms.
• Ability to operate effectively under pressure during live production incidents.
• Strong written communication skills for incident updates, executive communication, and postmortems.
• Experience supporting cloud-hosted production systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Demonstrated ability to drive resolution of complex, high-impact operational issues.
• Comfortable diagnosing issues across compute, networking, storage, and system integrations.
• Experience supporting Warehouse Management Systems or similarly complex, highly integrated Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) platforms.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery practices.
• Availability to work within a 24x7/365 schedule with advanced notice

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience supporting Blue Yonder Warehouse Management System in a production environment.
• Experience working within ITSM and ITIL-aligned service management models.
• Experience using ServiceNow or comparable service management tools.
• Experience working in Scrum and Kanban environments using tools such as JIRA.
• Proven experience driving accountability and corrective action through managed services vendor relationships.
• Experience supporting supply chain, logistics, or warehouse operations environments.

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a comparable field, or equivalent practical experience

The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $111,900 to $150,000 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.

About Disney Experiences:

Disney Experiences brings the magic of Disney stories and franchises to life through theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, unique vacation experiences, products and more around the world. Disney shines in the travel industry with six resort destinations in the United States, Europe and Asia; a top-rated cruise line; a popular vacation ownership program; and an award-winning guided family adventure business. Plus, Disney's global consumer products operations include the world's leading licensing business; the world's largest children's publishing brands; one of the world's largest licensors of games across all platforms; and Disney store locations around the world and on the web.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney's stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Experiences.

Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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