Senior AWS Software Engineer — Cloud Security & Automation

ESPN; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team. You will design, build, and support automation, IAM, and cloud‑native tooling to enable secure, self‑service workflows for developers in the AWS environment.

You will partner with Application DevOps teams, mentor peers, and drive secure, scalable cloud practices across Disney Streaming.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong Python development skills, producing production‑quality code
• Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools: Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins
• Experience with platform engineering, backend Python development
• Experience developing APIs and designing database schemas
• Hands‑on AWS Security/IAM administration and policy creation for many users/workloads
• Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts
• Experience with Unix/Linux systems
• 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
• Build on AWS, including hands‑on work with IAM, security policies, and cloud‑native services
• 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

5+ years experience

Python development

CI/CD tooling

Backend development

APIs & DB schemas

AWS IAM

Docker

Unix/Linux

Communication

Troubleshooting

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Spinnaker

Jenkins

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team. You will design, build, and support automation, IAM, and cloud‑native tooling to enable secure, self‑service workflows for developers in the AWS environment.

You will partner with Application DevOps teams, mentor peers, and drive secure, scalable cloud practices across Disney Streaming.