Senior Network Architect: Global Backbone & CDN

The Walt Disney Company; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in Glendale, CA is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for Data Center, Backbone, and CDN responsibilities to support Disney+. You will own design, capacity, and reliability of network paths from origin to edge, collaborating with Operations, Platform, and Security teams.

You will lead capacity planning, traffic engineering, peering and egress management, and drive network standards across data centers and edge sites, while ensuring 24x7 reliability and incident response

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a technical field.
• 5+ years in large-scale network engineering with TCP/IP, BGP, and IGP routing.
• Cisco NX‑OS, IOS‑XR, IOS‑XE expertise; familiarity with Cisco routers/switches/firewalls.
• Data center switching experience: CLOS/leaf-spine, VXLAN/EVPN overlays.
• Hands-on network automation with Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar.
• Experience with multicast configuration and troubleshooting; cloud networking (AWS/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, test, and maintain data center, backbone, and CDN/edge network infrastructure.
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve network problems across backbone, data center, and CDN/edge sites.
• Define network standards and architecture; lead capacity planning and traffic engineering across backbone and CDN links.
• Daily maintenance and problem resolution, operating system patches and software upgrades, routine hardware configuration, and network automation/tooling.
• Participate in 24x7 on‑call rotation and post‑incident reviews.

Skills

TCP/IP expertise

BGP/IGP routing (OSPF/IS-IS)

Network troubleshooting

Communication skills

Customer presentation skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Cisco NX‑OS

IOS‑XR

IOS‑XE

Nexus/leaf-spine

VXLAN/EVPN

Python/Ansible/Terraform

Kentik/observability tools

CCIE/CCNP

Job description

The Walt Disney Company in Glendale, CA is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for Data Center, Backbone, and CDN responsibilities to support Disney+. You will own design, capacity, and reliability of network paths from origin to edge, collaborating with Operations, Platform, and Security teams.

You will lead capacity planning, traffic engineering, peering and egress management, and drive network standards across data centers and edge sites, while ensuring 24x7 reliability and incident response