Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – AWS (Req : )

Role

Location:

This is an on‑site role requiring 4 days in‑person at the designated office location.

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world‑class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are storytellers and innovators.

Creators and builders. Entertainers and engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

• Building the future of Disney’s media:
  Our technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach, scale & impact:
  More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans’ connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, ABC News, and many more.
• Innovation:
  We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

The Production Platform Foundations team provides both tools and guidance across the organization for operations in AWS. We serve as a productivity multiplier, consulting and supporting application teams to adopt AWS services alongside their existing infrastructure. A Senior Software Engineer on the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team focuses on security and automation to enable secure, compliant self‑service workflows for the team and developers.

• Write automation tools for the team and other internal teams to self‑service, deploy, detect, alert, and mitigate in our AWS environments.
• Champion and execute best practices and security standards for operating in the cloud.
• Troubleshoot and implement appropriate IAM permissions for user access and workloads running in AWS.
• Provide guidance and recommendations to development teams on service design and deployments.
• Own initiatives and contribute to future solution designs and planning.
• Be a go‑to technical resource on the team, spanning levels and cross‑functional teams.
• Monitor and work on inbound issues.

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building on public cloud, preferably AWS.
• Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools – Terraform, Git Hub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins.
• Relevant software engineering experience, primarily backend (Python, database, building APIs).
• Hands‑on AWS Security/IAM administration and policy‑creation for many users and workloads.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts.
• Experience with Unix/Linux systems.
• Clear, succinct written and verbal communication with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Practical, collaborative approach when working with engineers.
• Familiarity with operational troubleshooting tools and techniques.
• Nice to have: experience leveraging AI as a productivity multiplier, AWS certifications, supporting Dev Ops teams in mid‑to‑large‑sized organizations, especially in multitenant environments.
• Familiarity with SSL certificate management.
• Familiarity with general and AWS‑specific networking concepts, including VPC constructs, firewalling, and DNS.

The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA and Glendale, CA is $141,900 to $190,300 per year and in New York, NY and Seattle, WA is $148,700 to $199,400 per year, and in San Francisco, CA is $155,400 to $208,400. The base pay will vary based on internal equity and factors such as geographic region. Bonuses and/or long‑term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits, depending on the level and position offered.