Job Posting Title:
Lead Systems Engineer
Req ID:
Job Description:
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & TechnologyProduct 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.
ResponsibilitiesPlatform 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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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 Segment:
PE - Media Engineering
Job Posting 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
Date Posted:
2026-09-21