Systems Engineer II

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming our media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to enhance flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

• Building the future of Disney’s media: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

Engineering Services designs, builds, and sustains technology that powers DE&E Technology’s worldwide content production and distribution platforms. In doing so, they contribute to a series of cross-functional services and technologies, including Quality Assurance, Data Analytics, Software Development, Broadcast Infrastructure, and Networking & Security.

The Instrumentation & Application Infrastructure Team at Disney Streaming Services is responsible for the architecture, implementation, and management of the infrastructure services that powers observability, content processing and delivery globally for a range of streaming products including ESPN+ and Disney+. From managing the bare metal, virtualization, and container platforms; to ensuring that the underlying infrastructure services operate at peak performance, the Instrumentation & Application Infrastructure team is intimately involved.

We are currently seeking a Systems Engineer to join this world-class group. The ideal candidate is a team player with a rich and diverse technical background.

Responsibilities:

• Development, Implementation and Management of global observability & content delivery infrastructure 
• Development of configuration management and automation tooling to handle various deployment and administrative tasks (Ansible + AWX, Jenkins, Shell Scripting, Python development).
• Management of critical infrastructure platforms used by a wide audience of users: Grafana, ELK, InfluxDB, Kafka, Splunk, Clickhouse, Prometheus
• Fielding Tier 2 escalations from systems operations staff, and participating in an on-call rotation.
• Perform project & ad-hoc engineering tasks in an on-prem and hybrid (on-prem/aws) environment 

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years of experience or more as an engineer or systems administrator, with a high focus on DevOps/SRE style work. 
• Bachelors Degree
• Ability to communicate effectively and help foster a positive working environment.
• Excellent Knowledge of Linux (Redhat based distro preferred, Ubuntu), with well established experience with Linux Systems Administration.
• Experience managing highly scalable, fault-tolerant service deployments.
• Experience working with some type of VM virtualization framework.
• Experience with Kubernetes or container based clustering technologies.
• Strong scripting skills (BASH/SH, or code bases such as perl/python/etc.)
• Experience using configuration management frameworks (Saltstack, Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
• Demonstrable logic and troubleshooting skills (OS and Network).
• Experience working with Source Control Systems (git in particular)
• Experience with load balancing technologies (haproxy, nginx)
• Experience using CICD tools (Github Actions, ArgoCD).
• Experience with monitoring, metrics, log aggregation, and visualization tools (Grafana, Kibana, Datadog, Splunk, Elk, Prometheus, InfluxDB)
• Ability to write clear & concise documentation 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Dell & Supermicro hardware platforms 
• Experience building Kubernetes applications
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters. Knowledge of Rancher is a plus.
• Extensive development skills, with examples of past applications created. Python is preferred but other types of high level languages are acceptable.
• Ability to create and design improvements to existing build and configuration methods, formulate a plan with the team, and manage the deployment to implementation.
• Demonstrated experience designing, testing, and implementing large scale solutions
• AWS Experience (ec2, s3 etc) 
• Experience in Tech Operations or Observability 

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $98,000 to $131,300 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.