Sr. Systems Engineer
Job Summary:The Platform Engineering Team at Disney Streaming Services is responsible for the architecture, implementation, and management of the infrastructure services that power content processing and delivery globally for a range of streaming products including ESPN+ and Disney+. From managing the bare metal, virtualization, and container platforms; to ensuring that the underlying infrastructure services operate at peak performance, the Platform Engineering team is intimately involved.
We are currently seeking a senior level engineer to join this world-class group. The ideal candidate is a team player with a rich and diverse technical background. In addition, this person must be: articulate, a problem solver, passionate about standardization, a champion for automation, and is comfortable working in a highly collaborative / fast paced environment.
If you think you can apply your skill set to some, or all of the following, we would love the opportunity to speak with you!
Responsibilities:
- Architecture, Implementation, and Management of global compute infrastructure.
- Create, maintain, and manage virtual technologies used internally. (ovirt, kubernetes).
- Share responsibility for maintaining a Linux OS baseline. Own the install methods for virtual and bare metal systems.
- Development of configuration management and automation tooling to handle various deployment and administrative tasks (Ansible + AWX, Jenkins, Shell Scripting, Python development).
- Deployment and Management of Reverse Proxies.
- Management of critical infrastructure tool sets used by a wide audience of users: source control (Github Enterprise), Artifact Repository (Artifactory), and IPAM (ip management) applications.
- Fielding Tier 2 escalations from systems operations staff, and participating in an on-call rotation.
Basic Qualifications:
- 10 years of experience or more as an engineer or senior systems administrator, with a high focus on DevOps.
- Ability to communicate effectively and help foster a positive working environment.
- Excellent Knowledge of Linux (Redhat based distro preferred, Ubuntu), with well established experience with Linux Systems Administration.
- Experience, deploying, and managing highly scalable, fault-tolerant service deployments.
- Experience working with some type of VM virtualization framework.
- Experience working to some capacity with Kubernetes or container based clustering technologies.
- Strong scripting skills (BASH/SH, or code bases such as perl/python/etc.)
- Experience using configuration management frameworks (Saltstack, Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Demonstrable logic and troubleshooting skills (OS and Network).
- Experience working with Source Control Systems (git in particular)
- Working knowledge of Layer 2/3 switching, VLAN, VXLAN, inter-VLAN routing, LACP, Etherchannel, subnetting, NAT, PNATs
- Working Knowledge of multi-layer firewalls
- Experience with load balancing technologies (haproxy, nginx)
- Some familiarity using CICD tools (Jenkins preferred).
- Experience with monitoring, metrics, and log aggregation and visualization tools (ELK Stack, Grafana, Metrictank, netdata, etc)
- Working knowledge of SSL Certificate management, and the fundamentals of public key cryptography
Preferred Qualifications:
- Deep knowledge with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization / oVirt.
- Expert level experience for kickstart based installations with RedHat based distributions. Experience with Foreman is preferred.
- High level of Ansible playbook creation.
- Experience building Kubernetes applications with Helm3.
- Experience managing Kubernetes clusters. Knowledge of Rancher is a plus.
- Extensive development skills, with examples of past applications created. Python is preferred but other types of high level languages are acceptable.
- Ability to create and design improvements to existing build and configuration methods, formulate a plan with the team, and manage the deployment to implementation.
- Demonstrated experience designing, testing, and implementing large scale solutions.
Required Education
- BS/BE/BA in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline
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