At Disney, we're storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt's passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world-a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences - and we're constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.
The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. The Enterprise Technology organization drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.
As a key member of the Database Systems Engineering team you will help build, support and drive the management of database technologies as well as leading automation and instrumentation efforts for our platforms and services utilizing DevOps/ Reliability Engineering philosophies. The Sr. DBRE will help create, architect and deliver new technologies and database platforms by using your in depth DevOps and database management skills. This will include consultation, designing, building, and supporting development pipelines, automating infrastructure as code and, creating telemetry for monitoring, engineering high reliability and reinforcing best practices to secure our company and guest data.
A passion for emerging cloud technologies as well as expertise with data services and platform technologies, applications, standards, and tools is required. You'll be expected to collaborate closely with The Walt Disney Company (TWDC), ESPN, ABC Networks, DMED, DPEP and other key Disney partners, as well as leverage vendors and the open source community for products and services. Your success will be measured on your ability to rapidly develop, deploy and document a keen understanding of Disney's stakeholders needs while working closely with interfacing architecture and development teams building world-class solutions.
Responsibilities:• DBREs are a blend of database engineering and administration professionals and software developers that apply sound engineering principles, operational discipline and mature software development and automation, specializing in databases.• Responsible for level 2 systems management and exercises application-level control over initiatives.• The ideal candidate will have expertise in multiple Pubic Cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud Services, Azure and/or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.• Expertise in system management tools (e.g. Chef, Terraform, Ansible)• Excellent technical expertise in relevant state of the art database technologies, stores, systems, and design.• Carries out assignments with little coaching or guidance from others. Develops, enhances and adheres to engineering and administration standards. Builds relationships with application developments teams and leads.• Upholds and maintains strong documentation so your learnings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.• Database administration experience with Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, RDS and/or Redshift.• Non-relational database systems like Dynamo, MongoDB, Cassandra, Elastic Search, CosmoDB are a plus.• Data warehouse, data lake, reporting solutions knowledge like EMR, Databrick, Boomi, Tableau, Snowflake are a plus.
Basic Qualifications:• Typically 5-7 years of related work experience• 5 or more years of experience with relational database systems like DB2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, RDS, Aurora on AWS and MySQL on Linux• Expertise in one or more programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, Ruby, Node, Java, others alike)• Strong Networking skills and protocols (e.g. HTTP, TLS, SSH, DNS)• Experience with Source Control Management systems (e.g. Git)• Expertise in public and private cloud hosting services (AWS, Azure)• Expertise with configuration management (e.g. Terraform, Chef)• Experience with Containers (e.g. Docker) and Container Orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Mesos, DockerEE)• Effectively communicates technical actions and expectations to the appropriate audience• Demonstrated experience with Disaster Recovery planning and implementation• Experience with troubleshooting systems issues and effectively diagnosing problems• Expertise with Log management tools (Splunk) with the ability to load and query. • Implemented a HA DB platform.• Knowledge on DB security implementation using tools such as Imperva, Prisma.• Able to work on call rotation and in times of critical outages, focused on return to business resolution.
Preferred Qualifications:• 7-9 years of related work experience• Excellent systems documentation and system diagraming skills• Demonstrable experience and knowledge with key value, column oriented, and document store non-relational database systems such as Cassandra, MongoDB, Couchbase, Dynamo, Marklogic• Consistently delivers customer service excellence by knowing customer's business needs, identifying appropriate technical solutions, and meeting/exceeding service expectation
Education: • Bachelor of Science degree in computer science or related field
The Sr. DBRE position works on a central team of Database Systems Engineers supporting data services and platforms for Disney Enterprise Technologies and corporate development teams and customers. Primary focus of this position will be Cloud based database systems, support and service of operational and business processes for internet sites and corporate applications for The Walt Disney Company. Key responsibilities include DevOps/ Reliability Engineering practices, DB design and application support, task automation and scripting, best practice and standards development, capacity planning, optimization and tuning, system upgrades and migrations, performance management, monitoring, security, backup and recovery, issue troubleshooting, and documentation. Additional tasks as assigned.
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