Senior Production Systems Reliability Engineer (Project Hire)

Job Posting Title:

Senior Production Systems Reliability Engineer (Project Hire)

Req ID:

10131141

Job Description:

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. 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 Branded Television (DBT) 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.

DBT 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. DBT 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 Branded Television Technology team as a Senior Production Systems Reliability Engineer. In this role, you will develop and support cloud solutions for DBT productions and development.

** This is a Project Hire position with no guarantee of permanent placement. **

                                   

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

• 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, GitLab, 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 reinforcing best practices to secure our company and guest data.
• Design and development of front-end applications as needed for automation and tools.
• Work closely 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 various analytical tools.
• Automate and support physical and virtual environments for web and application servers for both production and development.
• Participates in researching, testing and implementing optimized technical solutions for our production technology infrastructure and user base.
• Provides 3rd tier, extended support to the Systems Engineering, Support Engineering and Software Development groups.
• Performs technical administration functions and other miscellaneous technical special projects as assigned by department management.
• Influences the direction of product and service development.
• Implement and maintain Unreal Engine / Perforce infrastructure on-prem and in the Cloud.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience supporting high-end graphics workflows.
• A minim