Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job ID 10103795 Location Greater Manchester, United Kingdom Business Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Date posted Dec. 16, 2024

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Job Summary:

We are hiring for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer within the Reliability Tooling team, you will be responsible for writing and reviewing code, contributing to technical decisions, and mentoring engineers in your squad. We are looking for someone who will be part of an engaging, dynamic and inclusive engineering organisation, grounded in scrum and agile practices, CI/CD, great collaboration and motivated by a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

You will be part of a team that is customer satisfaction focused and will be working on reliability solutions that enable development teams to achieve their service level objectives, by continuous measurement and improvement of reliability signals.

As a Senior engineer, we are looked at by our fellow team members as a ‘go to’ individual; you are someone who has a clear understanding of, and can thoroughly elaborate on SRE principles and best practices to a given audience. To be successful in this role you will continuously uphold and improve all the relevant reliability aspects for our services, with an increased focus on SLIs and SLOs, while raising the reliability of a variety of large scale user facing and internal services.

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology teams are located in New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Bristol US, Manchester UK, Amsterdam, remotely and more!

What You Will Do

Build tools to help your SRE team quickly pinpoint, isolate and resolve issues related to infrastructure, platform services and applications;
Use Chaos Engineering principles and methodologies to test what you build under real-world conditions;
Deploy and manage innovative modern cloud technologies using infrastructure-as-code, self-healing, and security automation patterns;
Develop useful telemetry, alerts, and response to reduce Mean Time To Repair (MTTR);
Collaborate and provide technical excellence within and across teams;
Consult on standard methodologies and develop tools to enable smooth adoptions of good service reliability practices and methods, e.g. promote sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
Identify areas of improvement in reliability, efficiency, and operations;
Write code that improves scalability, performance, maintainability, and security;
Mentor SREs in technical and non-technical SRE responsibilities;

What To Bring

proven experience in SRE, DevOps, technical operations, systems engineering, software engineering
Passionate and curious about ways to leverage technology while continually learning
Skilled in Cloud/PaaS/SaaS Environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Compute)
Efficiently skilled with the use of containers in enterprise production environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, LXC, AWS ECS and EKS)
Proficient in one or more of the following languages (Python, Go, Rust, or similar)

Preferred Experience

Comfortable in one or more of the following languages (Python, Java, Scala, Go, Rust, or similar)
User Interfaces development experience
Proficient, collaborative, & experienced in building reliable, scalable, enterprise systems
Ability to identify root-cause sources of instability in a high-traffic, large-scale distributed systems
Experience in designing, building, and operating large-scale production systems
Configuration management and orchestration (e.g. Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible)
Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD, AWS CodeBuild/Deploy/Pipeline, Azure DevOps, Spinnaker)
Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service;
Experience in SDLC, distributed systems, networking, logistics and operations or capacity planning;

The Perks

25 days annual leave.
Private medical insurance & dental care.
Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free.
Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing.
Excellent parental and guardian leave.
Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.

The Walt Disney Company Limited is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion or belief, sex, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, disability or pregnancy or maternity. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

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About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney’s two media business units, while helping to keep the company at the vanguard of innovation – enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. 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.

This position is with The Walt Disney Company Limited, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.

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