Senior Systems Engineer
The Walt Disney Company
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Job summary
The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer in Orlando, FL to transition Warehouse Management Systems from implementation to steady production operations. You will lead uptime, stability, and incident response, coordinating across DX and vendor teams to ensure seamless production support.
You will collaborate in a matrix environment, serve as SME for WMS and related systems, and drive improvements across release, runbooks, and operational documentation.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a comparable field or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum 5+ years of experience supporting large-scale, production systems.
- Experience with cloud-hosted production systems (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Responsibilities
- Ensure uptime, recoverability, and operational readiness of warehouse production systems.
- Own health, stability, and performance of live production applications.
- Support go-live activities to ensure production readiness and supportability.
- Participate in on-call rotation for incident response and service recovery.
- Serve as escalation point for complex production issues.
- Lead root-cause analysis across application, integration, and infra layers.
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Job description
Job ID 10161502 Location Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States Business Disney Experiences Date posted Nov. 03, 2026
“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences (DX). Our team creates world‑class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney Parks and Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, and Disney Vacation Club. We are responsible for the end‑to‑end digital and physical Guest experience across Attractions and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Resorts and Transportation, Merchandise, and related initiatives.
The Senior Systems Engineer plays a critical part in the transition of Warehouse Management Systems from implementation into sustained production operations. Responsibilities span go‑live readiness, post‑implementation stabilization, hypercare support, and the establishment of long‑term operational ownership for newly delivered capabilities. This role will also be a key point of contact for the Distribution Services teams across DX properties.
A successful candidate is highly collaborative, effective in a matrix organization, comfortable working autonomously, and experienced operating in complex production environments. This role serves as a subject matter expert for Warehouse Management Systems and ancillary systems, acting as a liaison between business, vendors, and technology teams while supporting production operations, enhancements, and backlog prioritization.
The Senior Systems Engineer reports to the Manager, Software Engineering.
- Be accountable for uptime, recoverability, and operational readiness of warehouse production systems.
- Own the health, stability, and performance of live production applications.
- Support implementation and go‑live activities, ensuring systems are production‑ready and supportable.
- Participate in an on‑call rotation leading incident response, triage, and service recovery
- Serve as the technical escalation point for complex production issues.
- Facilitate deep root cause analysis across application, integration, and infrastructure layers.
- Drive accountability for SLAs, feature delivery, release execution and issue resolution with external vendors.
- Perform hands‑on technical analysis when required to accelerate vendor troubleshooting and resolution.
- Create, maintain, and improve runbooks, diagnostics, and operational documentation.
- Balance short‑term remediation with long‑term system stability and operability improvements.
- Lead transition‑to‑support activities, including knowledge transfer, operational documentation, and stabilization following deployment.
- Develop and maintain configuration and asset records within Service Now.
- Proactively identify systemic risks and recurring issues and drive operational improvements.
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience supporting large‑scale, business‑critical production systems.
- Proven incident response and escalation leadership experience.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems.
- Experience supporting vendor‑provided or Commercial Off‑the‑Shelf platforms.
- Ability to operate effectively under pressure during live production incidents.
- Strong written communication skills for incident updates, executive communication, and postmortems.
- Experience supporting cloud‑hosted production systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Demonstrated ability to drive resolution of complex, high‑impact operational issues.
- Comfortable diagnosing issues across compute, networking, storage, and system integrations.
- Experience supporting Warehouse Management Systems or similarly complex, highly integrated Commercial Off‑the‑Shelf (COTS) platforms.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery practices.
- Availability to work within a 24x7/365 schedule with advanced notice
- Hands‑on experience supporting Blue Yonder Warehouse Management System in a production environment.
- Experience working within ITSM and ITIL‑aligned service management models.
- Experience using ServiceNow or comparable service management tools.
- Experience working in Scrum and Kanban environments using tools such as JIRA.
- Proven experience driving accountability and corrective action through managed services vendor relationships.
- Experience supporting supply chain, logistics, or warehouse operations environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a comparable field, or equivalent practical experience.
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#TECHATDISNEY
“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences (DX). Our team creates world‑class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney Parks and Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, and Disney Vacation Club. We are responsible for the end‑to‑end digital and physical Guest experience across Attractions and Entertainment, Food and Beverage, Resorts and Transportation, Merchandise, and related initiatives.
The Senior Systems Engineer plays a critical part in the transition of Warehouse Management Systems from implementation into sustained production operations. Responsibilities span go‑live readiness, post‑implementation stabilization, hypercare support, and the establishment of long‑term operational ownership for newly delivered capabilities. This role will also be a key point of contact for the Distribution Services teams across DX properties.
A successful candidate is highly collaborative, effective in a matrix organization, comfortable working autonomously, and experienced operating in complex production environments. This role serves as a subject matter expert for Warehouse Management Systems and ancillary systems, acting as a liaison between business, vendors, and technology teams while supporting production operations, enhancements, and backlog prioritization.
The Senior Systems Engineer reports to the Manager, Software Engineering.
- Be accountable for uptime, recoverability, and operational readiness of warehouse production systems.
- Own the health, stability, and performance of live production applications.
- Support implementation and go‑live activities, ensuring systems are production‑ready and supportable.
- Participate in an on‑call rotation leading incident response, triage, and service recovery
- Serve as the technical escalation point for complex production issues.
- Facilitate deep root cause analysis across application, integration, and infrastructure layers.
- Drive accountability for SLAs, feature delivery, release execution and issue resolution with external vendors.
- Perform hands‑on technical analysis when required to accelerate vendor troubleshooting and resolution.
- Create, maintain, and improve runbooks, diagnostics, and operational documentation.
- Balance short‑term remediation with long‑term system stability and operability improvements.
- Lead transition‑to‑support activities, including knowledge transfer, operational documentation, and stabilization following deployment.
- Develop and maintain configuration and asset records within Service Now.
- Proactively identify systemic risks and recurring issues and drive operational improvements.
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience supporting large‑scale, business‑critical production systems.
- Proven incident response and escalation leadership experience.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems.
- Experience supporting vendor‑provided or Commercial Off‑the‑Shelf platforms.
- Ability to operate effectively under pressure during live production incidents.
- Strong written communication skills for incident updates, executive communication, and postmortems.
- Experience supporting cloud‑hosted production systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Demonstrated ability to drive resolution of complex, high‑impact operational issues.
- Comfortable diagnosing issues across compute, networking, storage, and system integrations.
- Experience supporting Warehouse Management Systems or similarly complex, highly integrated Commercial Off‑the‑Shelf (COTS) platforms.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery practices.
- Availability to work within a 24x7/365 schedule with advanced notice
- Hands‑on experience supporting Blue Yonder Warehouse Management System in a production environment.
- Experience working within ITSM and ITIL‑aligned service management models.
- Experience using ServiceNow or comparable service management tools.
- Experience working in Scrum and Kanban environments using tools such as JIRA.
- Proven experience driving accountability and corrective action through managed services vendor relationships.
- Experience supporting supply chain, logistics, or warehouse operations environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a comparable field, or equivalent practical experience.
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#TECHATDISNEY
PAY TRANSPARENCY
The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $113,500-$152,200. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long‑term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
This position is with Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Experiences.
Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.
The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, visit the Disney candidate disability accommodations FAQs. We
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