Senior DevOps Engineer

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology; Buenos Aires; On-site; ARS 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology recherche un ingénieur DevOps sénior pour concevoir et améliorer des plateformes et workflows critiques. Vous serez garant de la disponibilité, de l’évolutivité et de l’automatisation, tout en participant à l’on‑call et à l’amélioration continue des pipelines CI/CD.

Le poste exige une solide expérience sur Kubernetes, Docker et environnements cloud, avec une forte capacité d’analyse et de collaboration interéquipes.

Qualifications

• Diplôme requis en informatique ou domaine connexe.
• 3+ années d’expérience en SRE/DevOps exigées.
• Expérience opérationnelle de systèmes distribués dans des environnements cloud.
• Maîtrise de Linux et gestion des incidents.
• Connaissances de Kubernetes, Docker et orchestration.
• Connaissances des CI/CD (GitLab CI / GitHub Actions / Jenkins).
• Connaissance des outils de stockage et bases de données SQL/NoSQL.
• Bonnes pratiques de sécurité cloud et localisation média.

Responsibilities

• Écrire et maintenir des solutions logicielles fiables et évolutives.
• Collaborer avec les équipes produit et plateforme pour soutenir les objectifs métiers.
• Assurer le support en production et optimiser la stabilité des systèmes.
• Mentorer les ingénieurs plus juniors et promouvoir l’amélioration continue.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

Go

Python

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

3+ années d’expérience en SRE/DevOps

Tools

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Docker

Go

Python

Kafka

Kinesis

Job description

Résumé du poste:

Job Requirements

BUILD SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with the following business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, Disney Parks, and Experiences and Products. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

How will you contribute to our magical experience?

Contribute architectural redesign to reduce complexity, streamline and automate workflows, modernize and consolidate systems, and improve test automation. The engineer will deliver new features and enhancements while transforming applications into scalable, modern platforms, and will serve as a key on-call resource via PagerDuty for incident response and disaster recovery.

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our content platform engineering team, focusing on building, supporting, and enhancing platforms, workflows, and products with a strong emphasis on platform availability, scalability, and reliability. Our team develops and manages a diverse suite of products, workflows, and services that power Disney’s entertainment and sports media supply chain, enabling content ingestion, processing and delivery for iconic brands like Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, ABC, Freeform, FX, National Geographic, and Disney kid’s networks content.

In this role, you will ensure our workflows & products are highly performant, available, and facilitate operational efficiency. You will contribute to creating software that empowers operators to troubleshoot and resolve customer-impacting issues independently, as well as contribute to on‑call support, internal testing, and development of workflows & integrations with our media supply chain services platform. Leveraging modern software engineering practices and cloud infrastructure, you will build solutions for Observability, Continuous Integration & Deployments, distributed systems, and platform development that enable content ingestion, preparation, distribution, and content operations at scale.

The Sr. DevOps Engineer will be responsible for:

• Write and Maintain Software Solutions: Design, write, test, and deploy high‑quality code to develop reliable, maintainable software solutions.
• Collaborate with Cross‑Functional Teams: Work closely with product software engineers, platform engineers, product teams, and content operations teams to ensure technical solutions effectively support business goals and content strategies.
• Production Support: Monitor and optimize production systems, ensuring platform stability, performance, and uptime.
• Mentorship: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.

What we need from you to be part of this story:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, Mathematics, or a closely related field.
• 3+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps roles.
• Experience operating distributed systems, especially in cloud environments
• Strong experience with Linux Systems Administration.
• Experience with Incident Management, Change Management, and On‑call support.
• Strong working experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Container Orchestration
• Familiarity with advanced backend technologies such as gRPC, GraphQL, or reactive programming frameworks (plus).
• Good knowledge of Networking protocols and components: TCP/IP Stack, Switches, Routers, Load Balancers.
• Experience with source control, CI/CD platforms (Gitlab CI, GitHub Actions or Jenkins), strong systems development (Go, Python) and cloud automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform).
• Must be able to work with a geographically dispersed team.
• Excellent problem-solving.
• Understanding of security best practices in cloud‑based environments (plus).
• Experience working with Kubernetes, distributed messaging technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, etc.), object storages and SQL/NOSQL Databases (plus).
• Proven architectural skills and ability to communicate about software processes, architectures, and design patterns (plus).
• Strong curiosity about how Disney delivers the Magic and a desire to be a part of it (plus).
• Familiarity with advanced backend technologies such as gRPC, GraphQL, or reactive programming frameworks (plus).
• Knowledge of streaming workflows, video content delivery, or media distribution pipelines.
• Previous experience working in media, entertainment, or sports tech environments (plus).

Additional Information:

At Disney, we believe it takes great people to create the memorable experiences, products and services our consumers know and love. We are a team of storytellers and hire under equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability and gender identity. We foster a corporate culture of belonging and inclusiveness, which empowers our staff and company to thrive. At Disney, everyone has the opportunity to speak up and participate, grow and share ideas.

“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” Walt Disney

Disclaimer

This position is with TWDC Argentina S.A., which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

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