Senior Production Site Reliability Engineer; PH

About the Role & Team:
The Walt Disney Company is a global leader in entertainment and technology. Walt’s passion was continuously envisioning new ways to move audiences around the world. A passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that spans animation, theme parks, resorts, and a cruise line, as well as sports, news, movies, and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences, and we continually seek new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

The Disney Kids & Family (DKF) group oversees the creation, development, and production of live-action and animated television content for children, teenagers, and families under the Disney brand through the Disney Television Animation studio. This content is aired on the group's various cable channels, such as Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD, and the Disney+ streaming platform. DKF develops original series, movies, and other content that align with Disney's family-friendly brand image and appeal to its target audience.

These television properties could include distribution deals, marketing strategies, and brand management. DKF has a strong use of commercial and custom software technologies to create its products. The use of technology, engineering, development techniques, and software is essential to its production operations and workflows. We’re looking for an intellectually curious, business-savvy, analytical powerhouse to join the Disney Kids & Family Technology team as a Senior Production Systems Reliability Engineer.

In this role, you will develop and support cloud solutions for DKF productions and development. This is a Project Hire role without any guarantee of full time placement.

The Senior Production Systems Reliability Engineer (SPSRE) is responsible for automating production application processes in support of the production used by DKF to produce its digital production products. This includes the following:

• Architect, deploy, and maintain Unreal Engine and Perforce P4 infrastructure on-prem and in the cloud, including build, caching (DDC), and version-control services.
• Administer and scale Perforce P4 including depot design, replica/edge/proxy topology, and Helix Code Review, to support distributed animation and virtual-production teams.
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines for Unreal Engine projects.
• Support rendering and pipeline automation for Unreal-based production animation, including integration with existing render orchestration workflows (e.g., AWS Deadline).
• Deliver cloud native (AWS, Azure, GCP) and in-house infrastructure solutions for a wide range of applications.
• Responsible for the architecture, deployment, and support of CI/CD pipelines.
• Migrating 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.
• Responsible for implementing complex solutions to provide hosting services and platforms to various development teams and working in partnership with the team to help drive the standardization and operational support of infrastructure solutions to support the firm’s infrastructure needs.
• Create, build, and deliver new technologies or platforms. This will include consultation, designing, building, and supporting development pipelines, automating infrastructure and operations, creating telemetry for monitoring, engineering high reliability, and…