Sr Systems Engineer

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.

Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

Join Core Infrastructure as a Senior (P3) Systems Engineer focused on building, automating, and operating our storage platforms — including large-scale, multi-protocol NFS and S3 object storage systems that support origin and content delivery — across hybrid on-prem and cloud environments. You’ll implement approved designs and standards, automate day-to-day storage operations, keep services healthy and secure, and contribute to incident response and continuous improvement, partnering with P4/P5 engineers on more complex initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provision & operate storage platforms across block/file/object storage — including large-scale, multiprotocol NFS and S3 object storage systems supporting origin and content delivery — following reference architectures and change procedures.
• Automate common workflows (provisioning, configuration, compliance, backups) using IaC and scripting (e.g., Terraform/Ansible/PowerShell/Bash); maintain runbooks and SOPs.
• Monitor & troubleshoot: build actionable alerts/dashboards, investigate storage performance and capacity issues, and execute remediation to keep SLOs green and support our goal of 5 9’s availability.
• Patch & secure platforms: execute patch plans, firmware updates, and vulnerability remediations in partnership with security; document and verify results.
• Incident response: participate in the on-call rotation, restore service quickly, capture post-incident notes, and implement durable fixes per standards.
• Lifecycle & hygiene: decommission legacy storage systems, right-size capacity, enforce backups/replication and data lifecycle/tiering policies, and keep inventories/documentation current.
• Partnering: work with compute, network, identity, and product/SRE teams to ensure clean integrations and reliable change execution, including support for VMware, Kubernetes, and other distributed systems that depend on storage services.
• Scope: Executes well defined designs; owns discrete components and tasks; raises risks early.
• Craft: Delivers reliable, well-documented automation and changes; improves runbooks and Day 2 operations for storage services.
• Collaboration: Communicates status clearly; seeks reviews; learns from P4/P5 mentors and applies feedback.
• Reliability mindset: Favors automation, testing, and progressive rollouts; documents what you build so others can reuse.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in systems/platform operations with a focus on storage (block/file/object), supporting production workloads.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale, multiprotocol storage systems (SAN/NAS/NFS and S3-compatible object storage).
• Working knowledge of VMware/Hyper-V/KVM and Kubernetes/container runtimes as consumers of storage services.
• Scripting or IaC (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell, Bash) to automate repetitive storage tasks.
• Solid Linux fundamentals and familiarity with networking basics (DNS, load balancing, TLS, IP/routing).
• Comfort with 24×7 operations concepts and change/incident processes (runbooks, CAB, RCAs).

Preferred Qualifications

• Observability tooling (metrics/logs/traces), capacity/performance tuning, and cost/tiering practices for storage platforms.
• Backup/DR execution (snapshots, replication, restore testing) and data lifecycle management.
• Exposure to large-scale storage migrations and modernization initiatives.
• Exposure to identity/RBAC and secrets management within infra platforms.
• Experience contributing to standardization (e.g., modules, golden images, cluster profiles) under senior guidance.

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PAY TRANSPARENCY

The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $119,200 - $159,800 and in New York, NY, $124,900 - $167,400 per year. 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 Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

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