Principal Systems Engineer

Job Posting Title:

Principal Systems Engineer

Req ID:

10114831

Job Description:

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. 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. 

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

• 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. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally. 
• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Content Platforms & Operations is responsible for the development and ongoing advancement of the technical and operational functions driving the worldwide distribution and monetization of Disney’s linear networks and theatrical content. This includes Disney’s media supply chain and storage, network and theatrical distribution operations, media localization, network transmission and origination, and more. The global team also plays a critical role as the primary collaboration point for Product & Technology with Disney’s EMEA, APAC, and LATAM regional business teams.

Job Summary:

The individual in this position will join the Engineering Services Infrastructure team in an exciting, fast paced environment, supporting, securing, and managing our storage and compute solutions through a variety of technologies.  We leverage multiple storage and compute platforms. 

Primary Technologies are: Block, File, and Object storage, SAN attached storage, and other enterprise level solutions covering on-premise and cloud. 

This role will apply architecture best practices to establish, review and maintain standards for storage across the enterprise.  The individual will ensure that technologies chosen are consistent with the architecture blueprints and long term strategies of the Walt Disney company.  Finally, this role is charged with building and communicating to the organization the strategic blueprints, and reference architectures for the Live, VOD, and storage domains.  

The individual must have a broad knowledge of Storage as a Service and cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure and GCP.  Working with other team members they will develop project strategy, blueprints, and engage vendors to select and implement solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and architecture of complex systems.
• Define system requirements and specifications based on business goals and decisions.
• Translate enterprise business strategy into domain blueprints and roadmaps.  This will require negotiating with senior management and customers to influence decisions and strategic direction.
• Create high-level architecture and detailed designs.
• Apply deep technical knowledge for the storage domains in a project or Enterprise context across Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.
• Responsible for ensuring that consistent practices are followed, reference architectures are developed and maintained. 
• Responsible for developing, maintaining and applying standards for projects and programs. 
• Responsible to complete discovery activities for Storage and compute solutions (Vast, Pure, etc.), recommend and design the specific implementations to support the requirements of the individual business groups (Disney+, ESPN Linear, Studios, etc.).
• Perform system performance trend analysis as required.
• Works with cross-functional teams, collaborating with engineers and other stakeholders.
• Manage the development, implementation and administration of operational processes, programs, and systems.
• All other duties as required to help achieve business goals, including but not