Senior Software Engineer
Job Summary:
The Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution (DMED) Technology organization enables enterprise-wide consumer technology and data capabilities to deliver on the promise of more direct consumer relationships, personalized product experiences and more active engagement with content and advertising. With global scale, local presence, and deep technological excellence, DMED Technology helps DMED and The Walt Disney Company optimize technology, platforms, and resources, bring creative ideas to life and create industry-shaping approaches.
- Writes code that establishes and enhances frameworks, typically for software programs and systems that have little or no precedent.
- Participates in project proposal, architecture and design. Contributes to architecture design and implementation of assigned projects and may lead in the effort.
- Oversees technical maintenance. Performs troubleshooting for systems that tend to be large and highly complex.
- Design, development, documentation and/or testing.
THIS POSITION ALLOWS FOR REMOTE WORK
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop complete end to end automation of environments.
- Lead architecture, monitoring, performance optimization and capacity planning of new infrastructure services to support a high-performance computing environment and ensure 99.9%+ uptime.
- Implement and manage continuous delivery pipelines ensuring quality gates and automated rollbacks.
- Respond to off-hours and weekend emergency alerts, alarms, and requests, in keeping with the team's on-call rotation schedule.
- Work closely with Architects, Security Engineers, Product Managers, SRO and other clients and partners of the SRE team to meet the needs of the organization to stay competitive - from the infrastructure up to the highest level of applications.
- Strategize with the teams to develop new technology initiatives with a primary focus on availability, supportability, scalability, security, and performance.
- Configure and tune an enterprise monitoring and instrumentation system(s) to efficiently detect existing issues and predict future issues based on trends
- Stay up to date with technology. Recurrently advance your technical skill sets.
Basic Qualifications:
- Experience in Linux systems administration, management, best practices, and performance tuning
- AWS Certification
- 5+ years of hands-on experience as an individual contributor in a systems administration/development or DevOps role working on highly scalable distributed systems.
- Experience supporting mission-critical platforms, both physical and virtualized environments, using CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu.
- Experience designing, building and managing large scale infrastructure in AWS and Rackspace, including experience leveraging one or more coding languages for automation.
- Ability to communicate and transfer knowledge clearly and effectively in both technical and non-technical manners.
Required Education
BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent
Additional Information:
- Automation: Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Bamboo, Rundeck, Terraform
- Repositories: GIT
- Web Architectures: NodeJs, LAMP Stack, Java, JBoss, Tomcat, AEM
- Scripting: Python, Bash
- Cloud Providers: AWS (CF, AWS CLI, Botocore, Lambda, ECS, Beanstalk, etc.)
- CDN: Akamai, CloudFront
- Database: MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, Redshift, Dynamo
- Containerization/disposable environments: Docker, Vagrant
- Network Operation Tools: Icinga2, New Relic, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Nagios
- Operating Systems: CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu
- Collaboration Tools: Jira, Confluence, Slack