Java Tools Engineer

The Watch Platform at ABC puts content in the hands of millions of users who want to watch full episodes, or watch the live streams anytime, anywhere. Users can enjoy their favorite shows from multiple TV networks, live events, sports, news and weather.

The DTSS-Systems Engineering-ABC group is responsible for the core engineering, systems architecture, and technical operations of the Watch platforms (Watch

ABC, Watch

ABCFamily, Watch Disney Channel , Watch Disney Junior , Watch

Disney

XD), , , and the Oscars. The team is responsible for the design, build and development of large scale, resilient platforms and systems that encompass the all of our products and services.

We collaborate closely with ABC development teams and Disney technical teams to provide these robust, distributed and performant solutions to achieve ABC and Disney business goals. Solutions can consist of Disney and ABC proprietary software and services, commercial software, services as well as open source software.

The Platform Engineering team is responsible for planning and engineering of our cloud systems architecture, application delivery, platform configuration management, systems automation, systems tool development and operationalizing the Watch infrastructure globally. These are large, complex application environments that are highly scalable, resilient, secure, reliable and high performing to support the millions of users we support on a daily basis.

The Sr. Tools Engineer works as part of this Platform team and is responsible for designing and developing the components and platform solutions that help enable our internal and cloud application environments to be a scalable, dynamic and reliable platforms for use by Systems Engineers, ABC Development teams and our Guests.

Job requirements:

• Java
• developing REST API's
• strong understanding of cloud technologies so they can integrate well with the rest of the team.
• OOP (object oriented programming)
• developing protocols, applications internals TOMCAT servlet containers
• workflow engines
• working towards automation
• Intermediate to advanced skills in Shell, Ruby, Perl, Python or other programming languages
• Detailed knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, SSH, DHCP), IP communication, packet structure, load balancing equipment, and troubleshooting.