Lead Software Engineer, Cloud Platform DevOps

$159,500 - $213,900/Yr

Disney - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

About the position

The Lead Software Engineer for Cloud Platform DevOps at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is responsible for leading the delivery and operational success of global services within a mature DevOps culture. This role focuses on deploying and maintaining stateful microservices and serverless functions in a large-scale cloud environment, while mentoring engineers and promoting Agile practices. The position plays a crucial role in enhancing the scalability and observability of Disney's media and streaming services, ensuring they meet the highest standards of operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering squads to deploy and maintain stateful microservices and FaaS within a large-scale, multi-region cloud environment.
• Assist engineering squads in migrating to a unified, self-service platform, enhancing scalability and observability.
• Mentor engineers in adopting a DevOps operating model and foster a culture of accountability.
• Work with other engineering leaders and Product/Project Management to influence squad roadmap and architecture.
• Promote Agile practices through active participation in ceremonies like stand-ups and planning sessions.
• Empower other engineers through mentorship, enhancing their technical skills and professional growth.
• Foster an inclusive culture that values learning, collaboration, and excellence.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of related work experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
• Experience with Terraform, and infrastructure as code (IaC), and DevOps
• Extensive AWS experience: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, ELB, ASGs, Route53, KMS, SSM, IAM, S3, ACM, VPC.
• Deploying and operating AWS data streaming and event-driven services at scale (e.g., Kinesis, DynamoDB, Lambda).
• Designing, building, and operating distributed systems with robust failover and fallback strategies.
• Proficiency in JVM-related performance issues, logging, monitoring, and tracing tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, PagerDuty).
• Experience with Terraform Enterprise, Spinnaker, Jenkins, and GitHub.
• Track record in medium- to large-sized projects and platform initiatives.
• Practical application of Agile methodologies, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
• Adherence to high-quality coding, testing, and development standards.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and apply technical judgment effectively.
• Mentorship experience in guiding teams toward a DevOps, ‘you build it, you run it' model.
• Experience transitioning centralized Ops teams to embrace DevOps.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Childcare options
• Paid time off
• Retirement programs
• Tuition assistance
• Weekly pay