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5014 Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC

Lead Systems Engineer

glendale, CA

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5014 Disney Entertainment & Sports LLC lists this Lead Systems Engineer opportunity in glendale, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

Lead Systems Engineer

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.

Why join us

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.

Role Overview

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. The Lead Systems Engineer is a senior technical contributor responsible for delivering and scaling critical infrastructure platforms across hybrid environments, including on-premises data centers and public cloud. This role bridges architecture and execution by translating enterprise-level designs into reusable, automated patterns while leading complex infrastructure initiatives across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

Platform Engineering & Delivery: 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.

Automation & Modernization: Drive Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD best practices.

Lead infrastructure migrations and modernization initiatives.

Reliability & Operations: Lead incident response and ensure production stability.

Support high availability, 24x7 infrastructure services.

Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers and improve engineering practices.

Act as a technical leader across multi-team projects.

Collaboration: Partner cross-functionally to drive delivery.

Communicate technical decisions clearly.

Basic 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.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with large-scale migrations.

Storage and data lifecycle expertise.

Observability and monitoring expertise.

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Compensation

The hiring range for this position in New York, NY is $135,400.00 - $181,600.00 per year, and in Los Angeles, CA, $129,300 - $173,300.

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.

Job Posting Details

Job Posting Segment: PE - Media Engineering

Primary Business: PE - Media Platform - Infrastructure Engineering

Primary Job Posting Category: Systems Engineer

Employment Type: Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code: Glendale, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code: USA - NY - 7 Hudson Square, USA - WA - 925 4th Ave

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Worksite address

glendale, CA, 91222, US

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