DevOps Engineer

BUILD SOMETHING BIGGER THAN YOURSELF 
 

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with the following business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, Disney Parks, and Experiences and Products. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

How will you contribute to our magical experience?

As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in a highly performant and geographically dispersed team. Our team is dedicated to building workflows, data integrations, and tools used organization-wide, ensuring reliability for our technology platform. In this role, you will ensure our workflows & products are highly performant, available, and facilitate operational efficiency. You will contribute to creating software that empowers operators to troubleshoot and resolve customer-impacting issues independently, as well as contribute to on-call support, internal testing, and development of workflows & integrations with our media supply chain services platform.

The main responsibility is to manage incident response and provide on-call support across all platforms that require it.

The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for:

• Build and maintain API's and workflow orchestrations using Java, Spring Boot, and Python libraries to integrate with various media systems.
• Write clean code, document the business logic in code, write unit tests and integrate with continuous integration pipeline.
• Configure and manage CI/CD pipelines, observability platforms, and platform services for running workflows in cloud environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional QA, product, backend, and frontend engineering teams to support the internal testing and development of workflows and integrations with our media supply chain services platforms.
• Implement monitoring alerts, logging, and application & platform metrics using observability platforms.
• Debug and fix issues in existing code, improve application performance, and availability.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to handle issues involving the workflow & platform issues.
• Demonstrate continuous learning by taking initiatives in learning new programming languages, tools, frameworks, and techniques related software development.

What we need from you to be part of this story:

• 2+ years of experience in the software engineering field, with a focus on developing API’s and backend software artifacts which are highly available, fault tolerant, and distributed in nature.
• Advanced level of English.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, Mathematics, or a closely related field.
• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Python, Go, Kafka, SQL, NOSQL, and AWS Cloud technologies.
• Strong working experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Container Orchestration.
• Strong knowledge of API and Event Driven Architectures.
• Experience operating distributed systems, especially in cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of data specifications, XML, JSON, REST, and GraphQL
• Must be able to work with a geographically dispersed team.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills, with a strong ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Additional Information:

At Disney, we believe it takes great people to create the memorable experiences, products and services our consumers know and love. We are a team of storytellers and hire under equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability and gender identity. We foster a corporate culture of belonging and inclusiveness, which empowers our staff and company to thrive. At Disney, everyone has the opportunity to speak up and participate, grow and share ideas.

“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” Walt Disney