Hybrid Staff System Reliability Engineer

at The Walt Disney Company

• Job title: Staff System Reliability Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $155,700 - $208,700 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Grafana, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Linux, Python, Ruby, Swift, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Burbank, United States

About the role

• Staff System Reliability Engineer at Disney building high-quality production systems. Collaborating with engineers to design scalable, cloud-native services and ensuring optimal performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate high-quality production systems
• Design systems to enable rapid development, high availability, and clear observability
• Maintain and improve the reliability of services and infrastructure
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance and reliability issues across the stack, including cloud resources
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure services are designed to be cloud-native, scalable, and easily operated
• Create self-healing infrastructure-as-Code and automate everything
• Ensuring security best practice is at the forefront of all your technical solutions

Requirements

• Minimum of 7+ years of related work experience
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable working with public cloud service providers (e.g. AWS, Google, Azure)
• Strong knowledge in system management languages (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
• Operating systems and systems management (e.g. Amazon Linux, Windows)
• Multiple scripting languages in your toolbox (e.g. Python, GO, Ruby, or Swift)
• Authentication tool-sets such as Active Directory, LDAP, Ping Identity
• Experience working with observability tools for optimal performance and 24/7 reliability (e.g. DataDog, New Relic, Grafana)
• Data center, network, and application architectures
• Systems Security (e.g. key management, encryption, vulnerability management)
• Containerization and Container PaaS offerings (e.g. Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes)
• Thorough knowledge of continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)

Benefits

• 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.