Senior Production Systems Reliability Engineer; Project

Senior Production Systems Reliability Engineer (Project Hire)

Title:

Senior Production Systems Reliability Engineer (Project Hire)

Department:
Disney Branded Television – Technology

Reports To:

Senior Manager of System Engineering

The Walt Disney Company is a global leader in entertainment and technology. As part of Disney Branded Television, you will develop and support cloud solutions for DBT productions and development. This is a Project Hire position with no guarantee of permanent placement.

• Deliver cloud native (AWS, Azure, GCP) and in‑house infrastructure solutions for a wide range of applications.
• Architect, deploy, and support CI/CD pipelines.
• Migrate applications and servers between local and cloud platform deployments.
• Manage, configure, and implement tools such as Terraform, Helm, Git Lab, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Develop software to automate, monitor, and maintain deployed infrastructure.
• Work closely with product developers to ensure new features have proper operational support and maintainability.
• Implement complex solutions to provide hosting services and platforms to various development teams, driving standardization and operational support of infrastructure solutions to meet the firm’s infrastructure needs.
• Create, build, and deliver new technologies or platforms, including consulting, designing, building, and supporting development pipelines, automating infrastructure and operations, creating telemetry for monitoring, engineering high reliability, and reinforcing best practices to secure company and guest data.
• Design and develop front‑end applications as needed for automation and tools.
• Collaborate with the Software Development group to manage and develop tools for managing and automating hardware and software resources.
• Generate reports and statistics for various systems using analytical tools.
• Automate and support physical and virtual environments for web and application servers for both production and development.
• Research, test, and implement optimized technical solutions for production technology infrastructure and user base.
• Provide 3rd tier, extended support to Systems Engineering, Support Engineering, and Software Development groups.
• Perform technical administration functions and other miscellaneous technical special projects as assigned by department management.
• Influence the direction of product and service development.
• Implement and maintain Unreal Engine / Perforce infrastructure on‑prem and in the Cloud.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience supporting high‑end graphics workflows.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience supporting Linux/UNIX, Mac OS, and Windows‑based systems in a network environment.
• Experience with network administration utilities.
• Strong Linux/Unix/Windows administration background.
• Previous work experience in a similar discipline (Cloud Engineer, Automation Engineer, Full Stack Engineer).
• Strong experience with scripting and programming languages for Web App Development (Python, Power Shell, React, Reach, Rust, bash, etc.).
• Ability to use a wide variety of open‑source technologies.
• Experience with cloud management platforms and services (AWS, Azure, GCP), including cloud migration strategies.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Git Lab, Jenkins, etc.) and containerization/orchestration tools (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Experience with virtualization (VMware, Hyper‑V, Docker) automation.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent.
• Experience with infrastructure as code workflows (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, etc.).
• Experience with MySQL and SQL databases.
• Experience with load balancers (NginX, F5, AWS types).
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced, production‑critical environment.
• Knowledge of Active Directory and Identity Management services and their application integration (IDP, SAML, LDAP).
• Experience with creative applications (Toon Boom, Maya, and Nuke) is a plus.
• Knowledge of pipeline automation and rendering with AWS Deadline.
• Clear communication of technical information, both written and verbally.
• Strong customer service orientation and ability to work with a diverse user community.
• Experience with Unreal Game Engine in a live‑action and/or production environment.
• Experience with Perforce administrative level.

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent work experience.