Senior Systems Reliability Engineer

Senior Systems Reliability Engineer

Join the Enterprise Technology team at Disney where you will innovate and deliver cloud‑first film production systems for studios worldwide.

• Build and operate high‑quality production systems.
• Design systems to enable rapid development, high availability, and clear observability.
• Maintain and improve the reliability of services and infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot and resolve performance and reliability issues across the stack, including cloud resources.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure services are designed to be cloud‑native, scalable, and easily operated.
• Create self‑healing infrastructure‑as‑code and automate everything.
• Ensure security best practices are at the forefront of all technical solutions.

• Minimum of 5+ years of related work experience.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working with public cloud service providers (e.g., AWS, Google, Azure).
• Strong knowledge in system management languages (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience with operating systems and systems management (e.g., Amazon Linux, Windows).
• Multiple scripting languages in your toolbox (e.g., Python, GO, Ruby, or Swift).
• Authentication tool‑sets such as Active Directory, LDAP, Ping Identity.
• Experience working with observability tools for optimal performance and 24/7 reliability (e.g., Data Dog, New Relic, Grafana).
• Knowledge of data center, network, and application architectures.
• Knowledge of systems security (e.g., key management, encryption, vulnerability management).
• Experience with containerization and container PaaS offerings (e.g., Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes).
• Thorough knowledge of continuous integration tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git Lab CI/CD).

• Familiarity with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Github Copilot.
• Experience working in media production environments.
• Passionate to explore new technologies and constantly learn.
• Exceptional analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience with virtual hosting technologies (e.g., VMWare, KVM).
• Smart, self‑driven with a keen focus on exceptional delivery of innovative solutions.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $141,900 to $190,300 per year. Additional bonus or long‑term incentive units may be offered, along with a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.