The Walt Disney Company

Lead Systems Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $132,500 - $177,600 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AnsibleApacheDNSGoLinuxNGINXPythonRustSaltStack

About the role

  • Work with a team of engineers to build high-performance, stable, scalable systems to be deployed in an enterprise setting
  • Lead high-level architecture discussions and planning sessions; author and share feedback on technical proposals and root cause analyses
  • Work cross-team to build consensus on approach for delivering projects; eliminate ambiguity and communicate direction to engineers
  • Provide mentoring and advice for other engineers
  • Talk to business partners to understand and refine requirements
  • Participate in the on-call rotation, supporting systems and services during production incidents
  • Establish standards within the team to drive quality and excellence
  • Lead proof-of-concept initiatives and develop roadmaps for new products, features and delivery efficiencies
  • Assist in development of technology roadmaps and long-range planning to enhance content delivery capabilities
  • Develop and implement service monitoring tools and metrics to identify and address performance issues and system bottlenecks
  • Provide service sustainment, operational and technical support through software/hardware upgrades, service monitoring, troubleshooting and interoperability with 3rd party vendor solutions
  • Engage and collaborate with technical and business stakeholders, providing insight into emerging technologies, architectures and methodologies
  • Collaborate with multiple teams on interconnected deliverables

Requirements

  • 7+ years of Linux systems administration experience
  • Strong Knowledge of HTTP, DNS and overall Networking
  • BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent field
  • Strong communication and documentation skills
  • Strong experience with HTTP webserving and content delivery (Apache, NGINX, Varnish)
  • Other caching solutions within a CDN environmental context
  • Familiarity with complex network topology (Anycast, BGP, high-availability, forward- and reverse-proxying)
  • Comfortable with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Ansible, Git, Salt, etc.
  • Proficiency with at least one interpreted (e.g. Bash, Python) or compiled (e.g. Go, Rust) language
  • Solid understanding of web security protocols (TLS, SSL)
  • Previous support for hybrid public/private environments
  • Strong understanding of virtualization and hardware technologies (preferred)
  • Experience with enterprise grade hardware & storage (preferred)