Senior Systems Engineer - Hybrid Infra for Streaming

Disney Entertainment

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 138,000 - 184,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology in Seattle/NY area seeks a Lead Systems Engineer to scale critical infrastructure and implement hybrid on‑prem and cloud solutions for Disney’s media platforms.

You will translate enterprise designs into repeatable patterns, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure high availability and performance across distributed systems.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a technical field.
7+ years of systems/infrastructure engineering experience.
Expertise in hybrid infrastructure (on-prem + cloud).
Expertise in complex large scale high performance multiprotocol NFS & S3 object storage systems.
Experience with VMware, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
Strong automation skills (IaC, CI/CD).
Proven leadership across complex technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

Lead design and implementation of hybrid infrastructure systems focused primarily on origin object storage systems of content.
Translate architectural designs into scalable deployment patterns.
Identify critical metric KPI’s to drive improvements across all platforms.
Deliver solutions across on-prem and cloud environments.
Drive continuous improvements to support our goal of 5 9's availability.
Lead infrastructure migrations and modernization initiatives.
Lead incident response and ensure production stability.
Support high availability, 24x7 infrastructure services.
Mentor engineers and improve engineering practices.
Act as a technical leader across multi-team projects.
Partner cross-functionally to drive delivery.
Communicate technical decisions clearly.