Lead Systems Engineer - Hybrid Infra, Automation

5014 Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to drive the design, delivery, and scaling of critical hybrid infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments. This senior role focuses on reliability, scalability, and automation in a fast-paced media tech setting.

You will mentor engineers, translate enterprise designs into reusable patterns, and lead complex infrastructure initiatives across multiple teams to achieve high availability and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field.
• 7+ years of systems/infrastructure engineering experience.
• Expertise in hybrid on-prem + cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of hybrid infrastructure systems.
• Translate architecture into scalable deployment patterns.
• Drive availability targets and incident response readiness.
• Mentor engineers and lead multi-team projects.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to enable delivery.

Skills

Hybrid infra delivery

NFS & S3 storage

VMware

Kubernetes

Automation (IaC/CI/CD)

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Tools

VMware

Kubernetes

Job description

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to drive the design, delivery, and scaling of critical hybrid infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments. This senior role focuses on reliability, scalability, and automation in a fast-paced media tech setting.

You will mentor engineers, translate enterprise designs into reusable patterns, and lead complex infrastructure initiatives across multiple teams to achieve high availability and performance.