AWS Cloud Security & Automation Engineer

Disney Cruise Line - The Walt Disney Company; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology in Santa Monica is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Cloud Account Management team. You will design, build, and support automation and tooling to enable secure, compliant, self-service cloud workstreams in AWS.

You'll partner with DevOps and application teams, implement IAM and security best practices, and help shape future cloud-native deployment and governance strategies across Disney Streaming platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building on public cloud, preferably AWS.
• Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools - Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins.
• Relevant software engineering experience, primarily backend (Python, APIs).
• Hands‑on AWS Security/IAM administration and policy‑creation experience for many users and workloads
• Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts
• Experience with Unix/Linux systems
• Exhibit clear, succinct written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with operational troubleshooting tools and techniques

Responsibilities

• Write automation tools for your team and other internal teams to self-service, deploy, detect, alert, and mitigate in our AWS environments
• Champion and execute best practices and security standards for operating in the cloud
• Troubleshoot and implement appropriate IAM permissions for user access and workloads running in AWS
• Provide guidance and recommendations to development teams on service design and deployments
• Own initiatives and contribute to future solution designs and planning
• Be a go‑to technical resource on the team, spanning across levels and cross functional teams
• Monitor and work on inbound issues

Skills

Backend development (Python)

AWS experience

CI/CD tooling

Unix/Linux

Communication

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Spinnaker

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology in Santa Monica is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Cloud Account Management team. You will design, build, and support automation and tooling to enable secure, compliant, self-service cloud workstreams in AWS.

You'll partner with DevOps and application teams, implement IAM and security best practices, and help shape future cloud-native deployment and governance strategies across Disney Streaming platforms.