Senior AWS Platform Engineer - Security & Automation

2004 The Walt Disney Company Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private medical insurance & dental

Free Park Entry

Disney Discounts

Parental leave

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company Limited in Manchester is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Cloud Account Management team to design, build and support automation and tooling that enable secure, self-service AWS usage. You will mentor developers and partner with security and operations to implement IAM and cloud-native services.

You will own initiatives, contribute to solution design, and serve as a go-to technical resource across teams, ensuring compliant, scalable cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong Python development skills with production-quality code.
• Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools: Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins.
• Backend development experience using Python.
• Experience developing APIs and designing database schemas.
• Hands-on AWS Security/IAM administration and policy creation.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts.
• Experience with Unix/Linux systems.
• Clear written and verbal communication; collaborative approach with engineers.
• Familiarity with operational troubleshooting tools and techniques.

Responsibilities

• Write automation tools for self-service, deployment, detection, alerting and mitigation in AWS.
• Build on AWS with IAM and cloud-native services.
• Champion security standards and best practices for cloud operations.
• Configure IAM permissions for users and workloads in AWS.
• Provide guidance to development teams on service design and deployments.
• Own initiatives and contribute to future solution designs and planning.
• Be a go-to technical resource across levels and cross-functional teams.
• Monitor and address inbound issues.

Skills

Python development

CI/CD tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Spinnaker

Jenkins

Platform engineering

Backend development

APIs & DB schemas

AWS IAM/Security

Docker

Unix/Linux

Communication

Troubleshooting

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Spinnaker

Jenkins

Docker

Unix/Linux

Job description

The Walt Disney Company Limited in Manchester is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Cloud Account Management team to design, build and support automation and tooling that enable secure, self-service AWS usage. You will mentor developers and partner with security and operations to implement IAM and cloud-native services.

You will own initiatives, contribute to solution design, and serve as a go-to technical resource across teams, ensuring compliant, scalable cloud platforms.