Lead Systems Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

Posted on: 9/6/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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💰 $132,500 - $177,600 per year

Senior

AnsibleApacheDNSGoLinuxNGINXPythonRustSaltStack

About the role

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 and eliminate ambiguity
Provide mentoring and advice for other engineers and communicate direction to enable parallel work
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 technologies
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
Provide service sustainment, operational and technical support through upgrades, monitoring, troubleshooting and interoperability with 3rd party vendor solutions
Engage and collaborate with technical and business stakeholders and provide insight into emerging technologies
Collaborate with multiple teams on interconnected deliverables

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, or Varnish)
Other caching solutions within a CDN environmental context
Familiarity with complex network topology, including 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
Participate in a rotating on-call schedule
Preferred: Strong understanding of virtualization and hardware technologies
Preferred: Experience with enterprise grade hardware & storage