Senior Cloud Security Engineer – AWS & Automation (Onsite)

The Walt Disney Company; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Long-term incentive

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in Santa Monica, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Cloud Account Management team to design, build, and support automation and tooling that enable secure, self-service AWS usage across Disney Streaming.

You will work with DevOps and application teams, implement IAM and security best practices, and shape deployment strategies while delivering reliable, scalable backend services using Python, AWS, and Terraform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building on public cloud, preferably AWS.
• Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools - Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins.
• Relevant software engineering experience, primarily backend (Python, database, building APIs).
• Hands-on AWS Security/IAM administration and policy-creation experience for many users and workloads.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts.
• Experience with Unix/Linux systems.
• Exhibit 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.
• 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

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Python backend

IAM security

Docker

Unix/Linux

Communication

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Spinnaker

Jenkins

Job description

The Walt Disney Company in Santa Monica, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Cloud Account Management team to design, build, and support automation and tooling that enable secure, self-service AWS usage across Disney Streaming.

You will work with DevOps and application teams, implement IAM and security best practices, and shape deployment strategies while delivering reliable, scalable backend services using Python, AWS, and Terraform.