Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS Infra & Automation

The Walt Disney Company (France); Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Santa Monica to build and maintain cloud automation and platform tooling on AWS. You will partner with engineering teams to improve reliability, observability, and developer experience across the cloud native stack.

The role requires 3+ years of software engineering, 2+ years with AWS, production-grade coding in Python/Go/Java/TypeScript, and strong networking/container fundamentals.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years building on public cloud, preferably AWS.
• Experience writing production quality code in Python/Go/Java/TypeScript.
• Strong fundamentals in networking and distributed systems (VPC, DNS, TLS).
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code and automation workflows (Terraform preferred).
• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and repeatable delivery pipelines.
• Working knowledge of Linux and container-based workloads.
• Ability to balance security, reliability, and delivery with pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and fast-changing environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud automation and developer tooling for provisioning, deployment, and day 2 operations in AWS.
• Create and evolve reusable infrastructure as code modules and patterns for safe adoption.
• Improve reliability and operability through observability and actionable signals over noise.
• Participate in incident response, investigations, and RCAs; drive platform improvements from learnings.
• Partner with teams to unblock delivery by enhancing platform capabilities and developer experience, including docs and workflows.

Skills

Production-grade coding (Python/Go/JS/

Education

BS Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Spinnaker

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in Santa Monica to build and maintain cloud automation and platform tooling on AWS. You will partner with engineering teams to improve reliability, observability, and developer experience across the cloud native stack.

The role requires 3+ years of software engineering, 2+ years with AWS, production-grade coding in Python/Go/Java/TypeScript, and strong networking/container fundamentals.