Security Engineering Leader - Cloud, SRE & Resilience

The Walt Disney Company; Florida; Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus and/or long-term incentive units

Job summary

Disney Experiences (DX) seeks a Lead Security Engineer to advance security across digital and physical guest experiences. You'll partner with SRE, engineering, and product teams to implement robust security controls, monitoring, and proactive threat defense.

The role emphasizes design, automation, and continuous learning in a dynamic environment. The position reports to the Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, and requires strong communication and leadership in driving security initiatives

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of related work experience.
• Proficient in agile environments.
• Experience with at least one CDN (Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly).
• Hands-on with CI/CD tools (GitLab, AWS CodeBuild, Azure DevOps).
• Proficient with configuration management tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef.
• Experience in procedural programming languages (Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, Go, Rust, C/C++).
• Skilled in Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Proven ability to design and build reliable, scalable enterprise systems.
• Capable of leading reliability efforts and root-cause analysis.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and influencing without authority.
• Familiar with NIST and CIS benchmarks.

Responsibilities

• Process and prioritize security assessment reports.
• Evaluate designs for security controls conformance.
• Design and maintain security controls for apps and infra.
• Implement WAF and bot management configurations.
• Audit security configurations and standards.
• Enhance security monitoring and detection systems.
• Identify security trends, vulnerabilities, threats.
• Conduct security investigations and research.
• Sourcing and implementing new security solutions.

Skills

Agile environments

Troubleshooting across systems

Mentoring/leadership

Security engineering

DevOps principles

Observability

NIST/CIS benchmarks

Procedural programming languages

Python

Perl

Ruby

Java

Go

Rust

C/C++

Cloud environments

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Education

BS in Computer Science / Cybersecurity or related field

Tools

GitLab

AWS CodeBuild

Azure DevOps

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Chef

Akamai CDN

Cloudflare CDN

Fastly CDN

Job description

Disney Experiences (DX) seeks a Lead Security Engineer to advance security across digital and physical guest experiences. You'll partner with SRE, engineering, and product teams to implement robust security controls, monitoring, and proactive threat defense.

The role emphasizes design, automation, and continuous learning in a dynamic environment. The position reports to the Manager, Site Reliability Engineering, and requires strong communication and leadership in driving security initiatives