Cloud Platform Engineer II - AWS & Automation

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

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in Santa Monica, CA is seeking a Software Engineer II (Cloud Platform AWS) to join its Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology division. You will help build and operate cloud infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling on AWS.

The role requires hands-on experience with public cloud, IaC, and modern languages, with a focus on reliability, security, and scalable delivery in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud automation and developer tooling that supports provisioning, deployment, and day 2 operations in AWS
• Create and evolve reusable infrastructure as code modules and patterns that teams can safely adopt
• Improve reliability and operability through observability, alerting, and actionable signals over noise
• Participate in incident response, investigations, and RCAs, then turn learnings into permanent platform improvements
• Partner with teams to unblock delivery by improving platform capabilities and developer experience, including documentation and paved road workflows

Skills

Python/Go/Java/TypeScript

Networking fundamentals

CI/CD

Linux

Containers

Security & reliability

Education

BS Computer Science or related technical discipline

Tools

Terraform

Job description

The Walt Disney Company in Santa Monica, CA is seeking a Software Engineer II (Cloud Platform AWS) to join its Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology division. You will help build and operate cloud infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling on AWS.

The role requires hands-on experience with public cloud, IaC, and modern languages, with a focus on reliability, security, and scalable delivery in a fast-moving environment.