Senior Systems Engineer (Project Hire)

Sr Systems Engineer (Project Hire)

This position is for an experienced Senior Systems Engineer who is eager to join an SRE cultured Systems Engineering team for the Walt Disney Company. The role is specifically in the Parks, Resorts and Experiences area supporting systems at The Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and Disneyland Paris sites.

We are seeking someone with a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) mindset who can help us implement automation and deliver innovative solutions for the day to day work the operations team is doing. The opportunities to automate and innovate in our space include but is not limited to Cloud infrastructure provisioning, SSL certificate renewals, vulnerability remediation (patching), F5/Load Balancer configuration, Akamai configuration, and infrastructure decommissioning.

**(Project Hire/or IA Temporary Assignment budgeted to run 18 months)

What you will do:

This role will primarily be focused on maturing the team’s processes with automation and new tooling but will also help coach/mentor those team members handling current day to day activities. The Senior Systems Engineer is expected to have strong troubleshooting skills on Linux based systems including those hosted in the Cloud. The ideal candidate will have prior working AWS Cloud experience with (or equivalents of) Terraform, Chef, F5/load balancing, Akamai, Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, Redis, and Rabbit MQ. A foundational development/scripting background is preferred along with Git (or similar source code repository) to facilitate the automation requirements of the role. Required knowledge and understanding of technical architecture, application systems design and integration in a large heterogeneous enterprise environment with hands on experience in REST, SOA, Java/J2EE, XML, Apache Tomcat Application Server, iRules is desired. In this role, you will actively engage with Development & QA teams, Product/Business Owners, and even senior Management, hence, strong and effective communication skills working are required. Must be self-driven, yet yearn for strong team coherence. Above all, you must have a passion for new and emerging technology and a constant drive of curiosity. In addition, the candidate should have the leadership skills to guide the efforts of a small team of Systems Engineers, prioritize workload, propose technical solutions to peers, participate in project Sprint planning, and lead small to midsized technical efforts.

Willingness to participate in a Production support on-call rotation.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• AWS Cloud (ECS, EC2, S3, ALB/ELB, Lambda, CloudTrail, Fargate)
• Linux/Unix
• Chef
• Terraform / Atlantis – module based
• Apache/Nginx/Tomcat
• Rabbit MQ
• Certificate Management (SSL)
• Vulnerability Management
• Scripting knowledge

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to have):

• Vault
• Monitoring (CloudWatch, Splunk, Application Dynamics or equivalents)
• Akamai
• Go/Python/Bash
• Rundeck
• Kubernetes (Helm/Tiller)
• MS Azure experience/exposure

Required Education:

Bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of equivalent work experience as a Systems Engineer at enterprise scale.

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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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