Sr Platform Engineer (Project Hire)

Responsibilities

• Act as a proficient problem-solver and effective partner to engineering and product teams, owning platform components from design through operations while mentoring colleagues and working with minimal guidance.
• Emphasize automation, observability, and lifecycle management platforms to improve reliability, reduce operational toil, and support data-driven decisions that enhance Disney Experiences worldwide.
• Collaborate with team members, product, and engineering partners to deliver platform capabilities, support project needs, and resolve complex issues for assigned components or improvements.
• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure automation using tools such as Ansible and Terraform to standardize and streamline platform operations.
• Efficiently support platform software and systems throughout their lifecycle, including upgrades, maintenance, troubleshooting, and clear operational documentation.
• Build, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, repeatable deployments across environments.
• Monitor and improve system performance, availability, and scalability through proactive analysis, observability practices, and automation, leveraging tools such as Splunk where appropriate.
• Evolve the Kubernetes, Harvester, and Splunk platforms.
• Maintain compliance with security, operational, and reliability standards across all supported environments, contributing to best practices and operational runbooks.
• Work independently on complex platform initiatives, occasionally leading small efforts and providing guidance to less-experienced engineers as a mentor and subject-matter resource.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or closely related roles.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and reliability concepts, including monitoring, alerting, redundancy, failover, capacity, and performance analysis.
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins or GitLab for building, testing, and deploying platform changes.
• Hands-on experience supporting server and platform infrastructure, including Linux and/or Windows administration, networking fundamentals, storage/backup, and platform operations.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform to manage configuration and provisioning at scale.
• Experience operating or integrating with observability and log analytics platforms, preferably including Splunk.
• Good collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple teams in a partner-driven, team-oriented environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to independently identify root causes and drive durable solutions as a self-directed, effective worker.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms and services such as AWS for hosting and integrating platform capabilities.
• Familiarity with containerized workloads or Kubernetes-based platforms and their operational considerations.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and data visualization tools, including advanced use of Splunk or similar technologies.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.