Senior Cloud & Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & IaC

Walt Disney Animation Studios; Bristol, New York, Glendale (CT, NY, CA); On-site; USD 158,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a senior technical leader to own compute platforms spanning virtualization, private cloud, and bare-metal environments. You will guide architecture for Kubernetes and container deployments, automate with Terraform and Ansible, and drive enterprise-scale platform transformations across teams.

Ideal candidates demonstrate strong Linux/Windows Server expertise, proven migration experience, and clear communication with engineers, vendors, and executives.

Qualifications

• Experience engineering enterprise virtualization, private cloud, and bare-metal platforms at scale.
• Strong Kubernetes and Docker expertise, including enterprise integration.
• Hands-on IaC and automation (Terraform, Ansible) with CI/CD (GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins).
• Expert Linux and Windows Server knowledge.
• A track record of leading complex migrations, evaluations, and platform transformations.
• Clear communication with engineers, vendors, and executives.

Responsibilities

• Set compute strategy across virtualization, private/hybrid/public cloud, Kubernetes, and bare metal.
• Automate provisioning and CI/CD engineering standards, architecting reusable platform services and workflows.
• Build production-aware tooling for dependencies, health checks, and rollback needs.
• Improve visibility by connecting inventory, dependencies, configuration, health, and lifecycle data.
• Prototype emerging technologies and turn findings into reference architectures and roadmaps.
• Lead cross-domain architecture decisions spanning compute, storage, networking, identity, security, and data protection.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Linux

Windows Server

Migration experience

Stakeholder communication

Platform transformations

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or higher

Tools

GitLab

GitHub

Jenkins

Job description

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a senior technical leader to own compute platforms spanning virtualization, private cloud, and bare-metal environments. You will guide architecture for Kubernetes and container deployments, automate with Terraform and Ansible, and drive enterprise-scale platform transformations across teams.

Ideal candidates demonstrate strong Linux/Windows Server expertise, proven migration experience, and clear communication with engineers, vendors, and executives.